NRA calls Obama on Hypocrisy

[JakeStarkey]

The butt hurt is strong in the ultra radical right this morning. They make a lefty like TM look mainstream to the average reader.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

The butt hurt is strong in the ultra radical right this morning. They make a lefty like TM look mainstream to the average reader.

You're as insane as she is OLD MAN. You need shock treatments.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The ultra right radicals continue to froth and melt down.

 

[Wicked Jester]

The ultra right radicals continue to froth and melt down.

The only melt down on this thread is coming from one of your fellow, drunken lefty loons, Manchu.

 

[paravani]

Our schools have armed policemen as well, which is a good thing.

Universal background checks are mandatory, I believe, in order to identify those mentally unbalanced who should not have access to firearms.

Adam Lanza's brain showed nothing unusual. People who knew him said showed no signs of mental illness. So how are you going to do mandatory checks on people that show no mental problems?

Once again your feel good rhetoric is empty.

Adam Lanza wasn't old enough to own a gun. He stole his mother's guns. He was angry because his mother was in the process of having him committed to a mental institution. He had been receiving mental health care on and off throughout his life, and family and friends relate that there was always something "off" about him even as a young child.

Under the laws of Connecticut, Adam Lanza would not have qualified to purchase a firearm either at the time of the shooting, or when he reached the age of 21 -- because by then he would have had a history of involuntary commitment and a declaration of mental incompetence.

It is worthwhile to note that Washington DC, New York, and California already have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, yet are still numbered among those states with the highest murder rates in the nation. DC has a rate of 24+ murders per 100,000 people -- tops in the nation -- yet DC's gun laws are the strictest.

Washington DC does not recognize the right to bear arms. You cannot be issued a concealed-carry permit, and bringing in either a gun or ammunition that you purchased legally in another state is a criminal offense. All DC guns and ammunition must be kept at home, and must be registered. These laws haven't stopped Washington DC from having a murder rate nearly double the second-highest.

Apparently criminals feel comfortable knowing that citizens are unarmed.

With Mexican cartels in the news on a daily basis, you may not know that guns are severely restricted in Mexico. For an ordinary citizen, options are limited: the largest weapons in Mexico’s single gun store — including semiautomatic rifles — can be bought only by members of the police or the military. Handgun permits for home protection allow only for the purchase of calibers no greater than .38; the paperwork is extensive, takes months to process, and although legally any citizen may apply, in practice permits tend to be granted only the the wealthy or politically-connected.

Mexico is, in fact, a model of what gun-control advocates would like to see here in the US -- and the Mexican government is also in favor of US gun control legislation. They'd like us to be completely disarmed. Their argument is that most of the guns in Mexico are coming out of the US, so they believe there would be less gun violence in their nation if the US confiscated all our citizens' firearms.

But according to the article Mexico Jumps Into Gun Control Debate:

Questions remain, however, on whether gun trafficking or gun control laws are directly to blame for Mexican violence.

George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary, doubts tighter gun control laws in the U.S. will greatly affect violence in Mexico. Cartels, Grayson said, can easily find AK-47s and other assault weapons on the international market – places such as China, France, Brazil and Israel.

“The lion’s share of weapons used by cartels come from the United States, but having said that, if the Virgin of Guadeloupe were to stop the flow of weapons southward it would be a nuisance for the cartels but it certainly would not end the bloodshed,” Grayson said.

Are US firearms being imported into Mexico? Or is Mexican violence being imported into the US?

A look at the map below shows a disturbing trend. As you can see, states that are closer to our southern border -- whether their gun laws are strict like California's or permissible like Texas's -- have significantly higher murder rates.

This map shows the rates of murder per capita in 2011.

Personally, I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea that Americans should be unarmed in the face of violent criminal cartels just over our border. I am just as uncomfortable with the idea of restricting American citizens to owning small-caliber handguns and bolt-action rifles, when the criminals to the south are well-armed with automatic and semi-automatic rifles.

There are an estimated 15 million firearms in Mexico, only 5 million of which are legally registered. Our military personnel number less than 1.5 million... so there are ten times as many guns in Mexico as we have armed forces to defend against them.

I find it very disturbing that the Mexican government wants US citizens to disarm... and that our elected officials appear poised to accede to their demands.

-- Paravani

 

[JakeStarkey]

Only a few cranks are talking about gun bans, and such can never pass.

Universal background checks makes real sense.