The NRA has done everything in its power to make sure the real truth about guns is hidden from the American people and it is now more corrupt than ever taking the Russian money to try and further corrupt our government.
I know of no police department that gather stats on how many time people use a gun for defensive purposes other then police using their guns in criminal situations.
The National Gun Manufacturer Association has one reason and only one reason to exist, to sell more guns.
There are no moral concerns just profit.
Would you say that social security, Medicare and Medicaid are failures?
Those programs are pure socialism you will find a variation of those programs in every socialist country.
America has a hybrid government made up of both greed-based solutions (capitalist) and social solutions. Ignorant people like to ignore the socialists features of our government.
Look around you friend socialism is alive and well all around you. The older people have some dignity do to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Before social security, notice the word, once a husband died his wife was left to eat out of trash can in your beautiful greed-based society where everything is divided up based on greed.
Twins are rare would you consider that a birth defect? In effect a mutation of a cell results in two fetuses
Children are born with a cleft palate is correcting that really any different?
Goggle listed the shooting of children in a bed but did not list those both shot with the same bullet.
The National Gun Manufacture Associations want to hide the fact that guns are the number one health hazard in America today and they corrupted the political system to make sure it stays hidden.
Don’t kid yourself Dickey Act was meant to keep the facts hidden. At no time in history has anything like Dickey Act been even attempted it shows rampant corruption of government by big business.
The only study that would help the gun lobby is one that showed nobody was shot or injured by a gun in America and that will never happen.
This is typical gun nut reasoning give an 18-year-old a gun and send him off to interact with other youngsters. What did this gun nut think would happen when his kid got in a fight? He is going to his car to get the gun daddy gave him and even the score and that is exactly what he did.
This is what happens when you give a teenager a deadly weapon and say now you can decide who lives and who dies.
The NRA is upset with retailers who have decided they will no longer sell guns to teenagers.
The disagreement between you and me is that you don’t want “any more regulations on gun ownership” because of the slippery slope theory while I recognize that more regulations are necessary.
The right to own a gun should never supercede the right for someone to live.
I viewed the video of the incident from several different cameras.
The old man pulls the gun immediately the black man is backing away when shot.
The old man was looking for a fight because there is no reason to pick a fight over a parking place when there are much better places available.
The only thing hurt about the old man was his pride and that is why he killed the other man the same reason the college student killed the other college student and wounds two others. I always heard policeman say how they had a different attitude when they have a gun on them.
A gun would not have helped in this situation after the victim was knocked senseless with the first blow.
You should be able to find ID on an internet package.
The old tale that guns don’t kill people bullets do.
If we decide that pushing someone to the ground is a first-degree felony punishable by immediate execution, then children should have the same option.
They should publish a list of offenses that gun nuts believe are punishable by immediate execution, so people would be aware.
I live in the south this state was once part of Virginia. In this county as recently as 20 years ago blacks were told you better not let the sun set on your ass in this county. One black man who found himself on jury duty was in a panic when the Judge decide to hold the jury past dark. This isn’t the even the deep south where the incident took place. You’re talking about a place where the white majority would kill black school children for going to the same school as their children.
You think it is a shame someone is dead for shoving someone to ground but you think you should still be able to do it.
The death penalty is reserved for the most severe crimes.
When the black man returns to his car, he finds an angry man confronting his girlfriend. His basic instinct would be to remove the threat. All he sees is an angry man who might have a gun confronting his girlfriend.
It is very difficult to reason with somebody who wants to pick a fight.
I don’t know what percentage of people are shot with their own gun but it in domestic shootings I will bet it is quite high.
In this case the woman had charged her ex-husband with rape. The case was due in court the next day. Her ex knew she kept a gun in her car. He gets the gun and kills her and her new boyfriend. She supplied him with a gun to kill her. Do you think that gun provided her with protection? With protection like that who needs to worry about criminals.
There is absolutely no difference between a family killed in their home, a family killed in the street, a family killed at school, or a family killed at the post office. In fact, close family members are the most likely suspects in killings.
“Individuals who commit mass shootings may fall into any number of categories, including killers of family, of coworkers, of students and of random strangers.”
Wikipedia
Look around you there is a church on nearly every corner.
There is no institution that has inflicted as much absolute ignorance on western civilization as religion. If you find people believing is something completely ignorant you can bet it has it root in religion. You can never separate ignorance from religion.
If something happens over 3 million times without variation, I would argue that can’t be a birth defect and occurs naturally.
It may be a small percentage but 3,300,000 is a huge number.
If disease was killing as many people as guns do each year there would be billions spent to prevent it.
Do you think the many incidences of outright executing people for minor offences would be separated from other defensive use of guns?
Here is a guy that got shoved down the guy that shoved him should be executed.
This is a real slippery slope.
What if he just gave him a dirty look the guy could feel really threatened by that dirty look?
Shoving somebody would be a minor offence.
Had it been reported it is doubtful that anybody would have even been arrested.
There was a case of shoplifting where the shoplifter was shot and killed after he left the store.
People can now be shot for petty theft in America. That makes the Arab countries practice of cutting a thieves’ hands off as much more humane compared to America. The message we send that is legal to execute anyone that shoves us down is not lost on the gun nuts. They will deliberately provoke people, so they can execute them just as the gun nut started argument and got shoved down. What if he got punched? What if the guy took a step in his direction? Surly the old man would have felt just as threatened. Do you have any idea how many fist fights happen every day? What the gun nuts are advocating is their right to execute anyone involved in a fight.
Face it, no study of guns will ever make them look good.
The only way is to try and prevent studies of gun violence from taking place.
Whether it is 3,000, 30,000 0r 300.000 people needless killed every year in America it is a bad thing.
Did you really need a gun to discourage them from breaking into the garage?
When I was small, we were eating supper in the winter after dark. There was an intercom between the house and garage. All of a sudden, we heard glass breaking. My dad did not grab a gun he got an ax handle. When he got to the rear of the garage, he heard the thieves discussing what they were going to take once they got in. Dad chased them for a couple of blocks whether he landed the ax handle I never knew. Next night same time another window was broken, and the chase was on. The third night dad hid across the alley and waited they never showed up. The word must have got around because it has been over 60 years and there has never been even an attempted break in. Dad had served in WWII if he had taken a gun instead of an ax handle it is likely they might have got shot especially on the second occasion. I don’t know whether the thieves ever figured out how they were so quickly discovered intercoms were not to common in the 50s. A gun is not the answer people defended themselves for thousands of years before guns were invented. The ax handle was never reported so I guess the stats on defensive use of ax handles are not recorded.
The Gun Manufacturers Association owns and run the NRA. The NRA objectives are a carbon copy of what the Gun Manufacturers Association are. All manufacturers have associations that lobby for laws that would benefit them. There is no reason to believe the gun manufacturers are any different but there is one difference they use the NRA as a front organization.
The Gun Manufacturers Association could care less about anybody defending themselves because there is no defense against someone killing you with a gun. Even presidents with an army of secret service agents are killed with guns. So, don’t kid yourself. What it does is make a hell of a slogan to sell more guns. Most of the crime that takes place in America is made possible with guns. How many women are raped with guns? How many people are car jacked with guns? How many people are killed with guns? Guns may not be the reason for crime, but they make it so much easier.
There is no such thing as a Gun Manufactures Association...
The chief trade association for gun manufacturers is the National Shooting Sports Federation, which is, incidentally, located in Newtown, Conn. But the NRA takes front and center after each and every shooting.
"Today's NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry," said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center. "While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the 'freedom' of individual gun owners, it's actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory."
But there is a gun manufacturer's association.
The chief trade association for gun manufacturers is the National Shooting Sports Federation, which is, incidentally, located in Newtown, Conn. But the NRA takes front and center after each and every shooting.
"Today's NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry," said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center. "While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the 'freedom' of individual gun owners, it's actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory."
There is nothing better than posting a quote from someone who's aim is to see guns banned and the 2nd Amendment removed.
I know he wants to ban handguns and assault-styled weapons but I haven't seen any indication that he wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment in its entirety.
I believe this shows how important firearms were to the Founding Fathers.
I was referring to Josh Sugarmann, btw.
Okay, but why is something that was important over 200 years ago just as important today? "'Cuz the Founding Fathers said so," doesn't seem like a very cogent argument to me.
You would advocate doing away with social security, Medicare and Medicaid because of fraud?
Would you advocate doing away with banks because banks are robbed?
Would you advocate doing away with retails stores because of shop lifting?
There will always be crime and people who steal. No matter what system you have criminals will find a way to steal it just becomes another cost of doing business. It is unrealistic to believe that government alone can stop fraud.
There are very few people that get social security that would say that it doesn’t help them out. Seniors would have no affordable access to healthcare without Medicare.
Without those programs, life for the elderly in America would be worse than in third world countries.
Come on, it is named social security for a reason. Social Security was born from the Great Depression when there was a big push for social programs.
Roosevelt was able to take the wind out of the American communists’ sails by adopting some of their best programs. That is politics at work.
Would you go to Las Vegas and “invest” your retirement saving on a roulette wheel? The stock market is gambling plain and simple you make bet on the future of a company. If the company does well, you make money. If the company goes bankrupt, you lose your money. The stock mongers point to the Dow Jones average going up. But what they don’t tell people is all the companies that bankrupt disappear from the Dow Jones and I think all 100 original companies of the Dow Jones have bankrupted or lost so value they no longer qualify to be on the Dow Jones. If you were a batter and you did not count your strike outs you would be batting 1,000. The best advice that was ever given was not to gamble with your retirement.
