Guns: how much longer will it take ....

I'll stick with the broads brush thank you very much.

You don't have to wait for the law to change, you can do without a gun as many Americans do.

You don't have to wait for the law to change, you can do without a gun as many Americans do.

You decide to keep a gun, and that need to have and keep one makes you complicit.

You've not called me out on anything.

You know what you do, it's why you're so desperate to cling onto your gun.

I said you were complicit.

Quote:

Using a jarring image to blast increased diversity on a children's TV show, a National Rifle Association online show depicted characters from "Thomas & Friends" in white, Ku Klux Klan-style hoods on burning train tracks.

Host of NRA TV's "Relentless," Dana Loesch went after the classic children's character Thomas The Tank Engine after its maker, Mattel, joined forces with the United Nations in efforts to increase gender diversity and representation on the program and include new characters from around the globe.

Loesch, a conservative spokeswomen for the gun rights group, specifically called out one new character – Nia, a steam engine from Kenya.

USA TODAY


How in the world is the above the new norm?

oralloy wrote:

Switching from gun deaths to knife deaths is pointless. The victims are just as dead either way.

You obviously didn't look at the comparative homicide rates. The US was around 4-5 times that of Australia.

Most of the knife deaths in Australia would be domestic related. Whether there are guns or knives in a house, the easiest weapon to hand may be picked up in a heated argument - so if the argument is anywhere near the kitchen, a knife is just so easy to obtain. From that perspective, you are right, dead by gun or knife doesn't matter.

The difference comes in street deaths, mass shooting deaths, mentally ill murderers, and possibly the number of drug related deaths.

I think gungasnake said he considered the price worth it. I can't say I agree, but at least it is a straightforward opinion.

oralloy never looks at anything that conflicts with his narrow little world view,

Six people have been killed in linked shootings in the city of Bakersfield in California, police say.

You're seeing things you want to...the context related to izzy's examples. The gun should obviously have been a comparison to a knife. The guy wasn't going to run over the parties that were in their business (unless it was very open), nor the others in their house. It's unlikely he knew how to make a bomb. Why then use them as comparison. Seriously?

That's because I look only at reality.

Are you actually interested in talking regulations? I thought your position was that it breaches your 2nd amendment, and therefore isn't to even be discussed.

Because that would mean that the NRA and their followers are complicit in the murder of hundreds of children every year. They are complicit, they're every bit as guilty as the ordinary Germans who turned a blind eye to the Nazi death camps at the end of the street.

We disagree on whether of not they should be in the public domain, but I've no problem with that disagreement. That is what democracies are about (where even constitutions can be changed). If people want change, they start lobbying, and gain sufficient support...or not.