Two wounded in a shooting in Oak Park, MI yesterday (link); one dead in a shooting in Darlington, IN, on Monday night (link); a 15-year-old girl died in a shooting in Chicago on Monday night (link); three wounded in a shooting in Wilmington, CA on Tuesday night (link); one wounded in a shooting in Warren, OH Tuesday night (link); one dead in a shooting in Columbus, OH (link); one dead in a shooting in Lake City, MI, Tuesday evening (link); one dead in a shooting in Rochester, NY Tuesday night (link); one dead and one wounded in a shooting in Houston this morning (link).
We need to ban handguns, assault rifles, and any firearm that has a clip or internal capacity of say more than 5 rounds. Anything else should be legal. Background checks for all purchases including those at gun shows. Perhaps some exceptions made for certain places like Alaska where an assault weapon may be better as defense against bears.
NOT according to the second amendment. Well that's mighty big of you to allow a select few to exorcize their constitutional right to keep and "bear" arms.
Driving to work one morning, Jim Povia, of Sarasota, Florida, saw a state trooper with his service pistol drawn, confronting a trio of male suspects during a traffic stop. Povia, a right-to-carry permit holder, pulled over and grabbed his .40 cal. pistol and went to the aid of the officer. Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, FL Texan Travis Neel helped save a wounded Harris County deputy sheriffâs life. Witnessing the shooting by one of a trio of Houston gang members after a traffic stop. Neel pulled his gun and fired. An off-duty sheriffâs deputy also came on the scene and joined Neel in covering the deputy, whose life was saved by his body armor. The Post, Houston, TX Vincent McCarthy wasnât afraid to lend a hand when he noticed a police officer struggling with a man at the side of the road. He tried to help subdue the man who was kicking the officer in the face. Despite McCarthyâs warnings, he shot him once in the leg with a pistol he is licensed to carry and stopped the attack. The Daily Commercial, Leesburg, FL The armed man who intended to rob a Renton, Wash., gun shop should have been forewarned by the police cruiser he had to walk past to enter the store, and the uniformed officer standing just inside the door. Belatedly noticing the policeman, the would-be robber began shooting at him. The officer and a store clerk armed with a semi-auto pistol returned fire, fatally wounding the man. The Valley Daily News, Renton, WA During a drug arrest in Webster Parish, La., a sheriffâs deputy and a state trooper found themselves struggling with their two suspects. But four citizens observed the battle and, armed with shotguns, they came to the officersâ aidâenabling them to make the arrests. The Press-Herald, Minden, LA Dave Storton, a San Jose, Calif., police officer, was doing off-duty security work at an apartment complex when two burglars knocked the officer down and attempted to grab his revolver. During the struggle, one of the assailants bit off part of Stortonâs ear, but the two attackers were run off by an apartment resident who came to the rescue, armed with a shotgun. The Chronicle, San Francisco, CA Miami, Okla., motel owner Oba Edwards witnessed two policemen struggling with a man they were attempting to arrest and saw the man wrest away one officerâs revolver, shoot and kill him. Edwards armed himself and fired a shot that allowed the remaining officer to recover his partnerâs revolver and fatally wound the attacker. The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK Police officer Chris Haldeman entered a Chambersburg, PA gold and silver exchange to arrest a suspect in a stolen property case, but the man resisted and a struggle ensued. The 220-lb. suspect had Haldeman pinned to the ground and was choking him when storekeeper Ken Cummings pulled his pistol and shot the officerâs attacker in the leg. The Morning Herald, Hagerstown, MD A stolen car bearing three escaped convicts was stopped on a Kansas highway by a state trooper. With the trooper in pursuit, the escapees crashed in the town of Gorham; two were captured as they crawled free of the wreckage. The third convict attempted to flee on foot, only to be collared by several onlookers who had secured rifles from their pickups at the trooperâs call for assistance. The Morning News, Dallas, TX A Missouri state trooper had been shot three times by two armed robbery suspects when armed citizen Robert Riley of Tiptonville, Tenn., rushed to his aid. Riley fired a small caliber pistol at the assailants until they surrendered. The law officer was then rushed to a hospital. The Memphis Press-Scimitar, Memphis, TN Inland Valley, California, Humane Society officer Amy Murillo, 27, was responding to a local residentâs pleas when she attempted to call off a vicious dog. But the animal turned on Murillo. She suffered several bites to the head and chest from the crazed animal. Witnessing the young officerâs plight, the resident who had summoned her help returned the favor by running to his house and retrieving a handgun. The dog then turned on the man who shot twice, killing it. Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ontario, CA Redlands, California, sheriffâs deputies credited an armed citizen with helping them capture four men and two juveniles who had just robbed a convenience store and pointed a gun at a plain clothes police officer as they made their initial getaway. Following a short chase all the suspects were captured. âOne of the guys was detained at gunpoint by a resident who really helped us,â Sheriffâs Sgt. Bobby Phillips said. âHe kept him there on the ground until we got there.â The Daily Facts, Redlands, CA In Indianapolis 17-year-old Gerald Watson stood near a policeman who questioned a robbery suspect when the suspectâs accomplice appeared on the scene and shot the officer down. Watson, who had taught marksmanship at the YMCA, grabbed the fallen policemanâs service revolver and shot the felon dead. Associated Press, IN In Saraland, Ala., the berserk husband of a woman charged with possession of illegal whisky killed one police officer and wounded another but, as he tried to make his escape, was shot dead by Carlos McDonald, the proprietor of a nearby shop. UPI, AL Now FC I want you to try to understand,(try hard) the criminals will always get their guns. They, by definition, don't obey the law. If you ban guns, only the criminals will have them. The cost to society from gun violence is a tragedy to be sure, but there's a cost on the other side as well, a cost far greater. The Founding Fathers knew that the right to defend yourself was as fundamental as all the other freedoms that are self evident. If you have a hard time comprehending this, try reading it more than once.
It wouldn't matter if there was. As a rule career criminals bent on using a firearm to commit crimes with don't get get background checks. In fact they don't generally apply for CCW permits or register their (mostly stolen) firearms either. But all you hear from willfully ignorant misinformed dumb fuck anti guns loons is "more gun control more gun control..." We already have gun control. The only people the government is controlling with those 22,000 federal state and local gun laws though. Are the law abiding responsible gun owners not causing any real problems to begin with. Yeah, more laws. It'll be different THIS time.
I agree, right after we confine all liberals to concentration camps , redistribute their property and liquidate them.
No, the criminals can not always get their guns. Especially if you make it harder for them to on a whim, go into a gun store and buy an assault rifle, lot's of ammo and large capacity magazines and then say go into a theater and kill lots of people. If you make those sales illegal it will much harder for someone intent on murder to do so. We need to ban handguns, assault rifles, and any firearm that has a clip or internal capacity of say more than 5 rounds. Anything else should be legal. Background checks for all purchases including those at gun shows. Perhaps some exceptions made for certain places like Alaska where an assault weapon may be better as defense against bears. Note. Nowhere did I say anything about banning all guns. I know that's all the gun nuts hear but no, I like many other reasonable people think there should reasonable restrictions on those certain firearms that A) are not needed for hunting B) Are meant only to quickly and efficiently kill large amounts of people C) Are easily concealed. I do NOT want a ban on all firearms.
WRONG pecker breath. They can and they do every day. Sometimes they even get them from the DOJ. Liberal myth. Just almost all of them huh? Guess what, the criminals will STILL have all of those "banned" weapons. And not that the facts make any difference to you. But assault rifles are very rarely used in criminal activity. Career criminal repeat offenders though, well they're involve in the vast majority of crimes.