What does gun violence really COST

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

  1. nitro

    nitro

     
    #471     Oct 23, 2016
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    So the liberals want to take away our guns and spend less money on defending our country against terrorism.

    Why doesn't this clip show the number of people world-wide killed by terrorism vs. gun deaths as a reference point. This will be a good starting point to show what the U.S. will become if we take away guns from law abiding citizens and not properly fund anti-terrorism efforts.
     
    #472     Oct 23, 2016
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  3. nitro

    nitro

    When Kids Pull the Trigger, Who is Responsible? Not Gun Owners, the NRA Says
    By Mike Spies On 10/10/16 at 8:00 PM
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    10/21/16
    In the Magazine
    Andrew Josequera, 11, prepares to shoot at a target at the Los Angeles gun club on January 23, 2013. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

    As Latasha Dyer and her two daughters pulled up to their cramped trailer, she spotted her son, Dallas, on the park lot. He knew it was against the rules to play outside when no one was home, and since he was her oldest child, Dyer expected the 14-year-old to set a good example for his sisters, so she sent him to his room.

    It was early evening, October 3, 2015, and the weather was starting to cool. Dyer, 30 and fair-skinned, with three stars tattooed on her right foot, followed Dallas inside. The young girls hung back on the lot, a small, grassy expanse in a rural east Tennessee town called White Pine. She went through her clothes and then put on a long-sleeved shirt that said “Property of Jesus.”

    Around dinnertime, the mother heard a blast, and then her 11-year-old, Katie, came barreling through the trailer. “The boy shot MaKayla!” she screamed. “The boy shot MaKayla!”

    Dyer ran toward the door, passing a wall decorated by her three children, who had dipped their hands in paint and pressed them there. The smallest prints belonged to MaKayla, Dyer’s mischievous 8-year-old daughter. She loved to wear plastic tiaras and play in the dirt, hated shoes and was not much fonder of school.

    When Dyer stepped outside, the lot was still damp from rain. She found MaKayla lying in the mud, dying. She dropped to the ground and hugged the child to her chest...

    http://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/21/when-kids-pull-trigger-who-responsible-507656.html
     
    #473     Oct 24, 2016
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    This is easy. When kids pull the trigger the PARENTS are responsible.
     
    #474     Oct 24, 2016