What does gun violence really COST

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nitro, Jun 18, 2015.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Lots of things seem off on that chart.
     
    #241     Dec 21, 2015
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I can't see what the guy is holding.
     
    #242     Dec 21, 2015
  3. I was at Cabelas not long ago. In a conversation at the gun desk it came up that Colorado's 2013(?) law banning magazines >15 rounds is being ignored by a few county sheriffs in the state. I was told they have "30 rd mags" and "100 rd drums" available for sale in those counties. I asked, "how can that be? The new state law prohibits >15 rds"... the response, "sheriffs in those counties are not enforcing that law as they believe it unconstitutional".

    Oorah!

    Guns don't kill people any more than "spoons make people fat".

    Odumbo really needs to be "put in his place"... not that anyone has the balls to do it, apparently. Not Congress. Not the Supreme Court, sadly.
     
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    #243     Dec 21, 2015
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    Still live in Chicago city limits?? MOST do not; most like 2nd amendment. Have the chicago crowds thrown out mayor Emmanuel?? The chickens come home to roost; NOT a prediction.LOL
     
    #244     Dec 21, 2015
  5. nitro

    nitro

    gunsm.jpg

    "KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jean Peters Baker, the county prosecutor here, stood at her desk poring over Facebook photographs of young men posing with guns. One wore a grinning mask and pointed his gun at the camera. Another clasped guns in each hand. A third was laughing uproariously, his finger on the trigger of an assault rifle.

    “This is our reality,” Ms. Peters Baker said, gesturing toward the pictures from recent investigations. “I’m not talking about my uncle who still lives on a farm in central Missouri and uses a gun for hunting.”

    In the past decade, Missouri has been a natural experiment in what happens when a state relaxes its gun control laws. For decades, it had one of the nation’s strongest measures to keep guns from dangerous people: a requirement that all handgun buyers get a gun permit by undergoing a background check in person at a sheriff’s office.

    But the legislature repealed that in 2007 and approved a flurry of other changes, including, last year, lowering the legal age to carry a concealed gun to 19. What has followed may help answer a central question of the gun control debate: Does allowing people to more easily obtain guns make society safer or more dangerous?

    The mass shooting in San Bernardino this month has reignited that debate in America, and Missouri’s experience offers one perspective. It is difficult to isolate the impact of gun laws in a single state, given the pervasiveness of interstate trafficking and illegal markets, but a variety of measures, including a marked increase in police seizures of guns bought in-state, suggest the changes in Missouri’s laws have had some effect..."

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in...s-and-more-gun-killings/ar-BBnMSo2?li=BBnb7Kz
     
    #245     Dec 21, 2015
  6. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Lowering the legal age to carry a concealed weapon is stupid. A nineteen year old is not mature enough for a firearm unsupervised.
     
    #246     Dec 21, 2015
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  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    and just how many people in the military are 19 and under?
     
    #247     Dec 21, 2015
  8. Firearms safety class held in Northern Indiana this past weekend. Couple of my friends attended. Just seemed like a bit of an odd setting to me. Less than professional IMO.
     
    #248     Dec 21, 2015

  9. Easy there, next thing you know you will want universal extended background checks.
     
    #249     Dec 21, 2015
  10. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I'm already for universal background checks. I'm not sure what your "extended" crap is, but there you are.
     
    #250     Dec 22, 2015