NRA has answer for your problems with your neighbors, friends, relatives or anyone that irks you....... I like to rattle the gun folks cages LOL :eek: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-22/why-guns-will-soon-top-cars-on-list-of-killers.html
"Laws designed to keep guns away from criminals, domestic abusers, drug addicts and others have been thwarted..." Thwarted by leftists mostly. As in their opposition to the death penalty, three strikes and you're out, severe prison terms/punishment of habitual offenders and unwillingness to "label" or profile the known mentally ill. *Most firearms used in crimes are stolen. Hence the offender is was and never will be subject to a background check. Of any kind. *Background checks even when done rarely prevent gun abuse. Recent Examples: The Newtown shooter stole his weapons from his mom. Who had passed the required background check. The Navy yard shooter had just passed a federal background check only months before his rampage. "But the death and injury toll from guns is large, and the logic of resistance to safety improvements is small...." Flight Safety International has a advertising slogan that reads something like this. "The best aircraft safety device is a well trained pilot" Proper firearms training of everyone in a household with firearms would be more effective in preventing accidents than unproven technologies that don't wear well in a violent recoil environment. Now let me see, who is it that opposes giving children gun safety training? Oh yeah, the same bunch that wants children to get birth control without parental consent, that's who. "John D. Williams underestimated his fellow citizens' appreciation of life. So does the NRA." Cry me a river. In 1997 a criminologist estimated that nearly 7,000 crimes were thwarted by legal gun owners every day in this country alone. Do the math. Take out drug/gang gun murders and we easily have far more people being saved by legal firearm ownership than what are injured or killed by gun accidents. Trivia: 1 in 50 or 2% of private citizen self defense shootings result in an innocent bystander being shot. 1 in 10, 11% of police shootings result in an innocent bystander being shot - BY THE POLICE.
Actually, how about looking at the total number of gun-related deaths per capita. Not surprisingly, US in that ranking is only behind 3rd world countries. Any reasonable argument in response to this data?
I think Lucrum has a point. A good point. Those numbers of child deaths due to gunshot, though they obviously go up the more hand guns we have floating around, are tiny numbers. Are we going to deny millions the pleasure of blasting away at beer cans and dangerous curve ahead signs on a weekend just to save a few children's lives? From a practical and realistic standpoint,you can't get rid of all the guns. There are too many and they are too widely distributed. Learn to live with them and adopt sane laws that recognize the situation you are handed. It is too late to reinterpret the second amendment. Scalia has spoken. Let's move on to things we can change. We need medicare to cover bullet proof vests for the elderly and Headstart to furnish vests for those too young to shoot back. Vests can be part of school uniforms for the rest. Once you're old enough to return fire you should be responsible enough to never leave home unless you are packing. The Principle of every public school should have a small arsenal readily available. Public institutions of "higher" learning should have at minimum a few sidewinders, and if they request it on letterhead, a small tactical nuclear weapon to fend off a full scale attack.
How many of our deaths are drug/gang related? I don't have time to look it up at the moment but it's my understanding the percentage is substantial as in huge. Is it the pro gun control advocates argument that gang bangers are going to submit to background checks gun registration and ultimately hand over their guns to authorities? pie hole does get one thing right. There are too many guns in circulation to realistically confiscate all of them here in the US. Like it or not Guns have been and still are an integral part of our culture. Unlike guns Cocaine is illegal in this country. Has the DEA been anything approaching successful at confiscating all the coke? As for "common sense" additional regulations. We already have 22,000 federal state and local guns laws on the books in this country alone. If more laws were the answer we would have legislated this "problem" into extinction a long time ago. The Columbine shooters broke over 20 gun laws collecting their weapons. Was one more law supposedly going to stop them? Expecting people willing to commit capital murder to be dissuaded by various misdemeanors. Is just as naive as expecting bank robbers to drive the speed limit in their get away car.