House of Reps. member Giffords shot in Arizona today

I don't think there is anyway to keep guns out of the hands of mad-men, but I'd settle if we could find some way of keeping guns out of the hands of assholes.
Joe(especially assholes with attitudes)Nation

The sad truth is there is no way to keep guns out of the hands of people that really want one

Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

I do believe that if someone does carry a gun, they should have some safety training and have to attend a class on gun safety.

Partially responsible is partially guilty to me. I think cyclo said it, too.

I think it was cyclo, who said if a comment was the impetus for personal harm, the person making the comment is partially guilty. I just refute the hell outta that.

This is what I had reference to. aiden said she'd feel guilty and then said something "obviously cyclo would too," but cyclo had only said he'd "feel bad" if someone acted on his words...

Sorry for the error, C.

You don't feel like someone is partially responsible for making a statement that someone else carries out?

Beck has at times spoken against violence, but he more often forecasts it, warning that "it is only a matter of time before an actual crazy person really does something stupid." Most every broadcast has some violent imagery: "The clock is ticking. . . . The war is just beginning. . . . Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government. . . . You have to be prepared to take rocks to the head. . . . The other side is attacking. . . . There is a coup going on. . . . Grab a torch! . . . Drive a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers. . . . They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered. . . . They are putting a gun to America's head. . . . Hold these people responsible."

Beck has prophesied darkly to his millions of followers that we are reaching "a point where the people will have exhausted all their options. When that happens, look out." One night on Fox, discussing the case of a man who killed 10 people, Beck suggested such things were inevitable. "If you're a conservative, you are called a racist, you want to starve children," he said. "And every time they do speak out, they are shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?"

Here's one idea: Stop encouraging them.