Eaglewings
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Most professionals use timelines to figure out whatever ails you, and have been proven to be effective.
Like many my age we had gun clubs in school..Why are we having problems today?
After sharing this assault rifle timeline a few times, I decided to share it with everyone..?
I made it easy for the retards who just post and not read.
A brief history of America's massive gun-buying spree <<< link
1980: American gun companies manufacture 5.6 million firearms.
1981: The Glock, the first pistol with a plastic receiver, is introduced. After fears subside that it could go undetected by X-ray machines, it becomes one of the hottest handguns for police officers and civilians.
1982: A “handgun freeze” proposition in California is defeated following a $5 million NRA campaign funded by gun companies, including Sturm Ruger and Smith & Wesson.
1990: Colt first introduced a civilian model of its military AR-15/M16 rifle in the 1960s, but it failed to patent its design. As other companies produced similar rifles, sales started to rise in the early ’90s. By 2011, Americans had bought more than 7 million “modern sporting rifles,” as pro-gun groups prefer to call these military-style weapons. Their owners spend an average of $436 on accessories and customization.
1992: More than one-third of all handguns are made by the “Ring of Fire”—six Southern California gunmakers known for their “Saturday night specials“: small, inexpensive pistols frequently linked to crimes.
1994: Congress passes a 10-year assault weapons ban, with former President Ronald Reagan among the leaders voicing support.
1995: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre calls federal law enforcement agents “jack-booted government thugs.” President George H.W. Bush resigns his NRA life membership in response to this “vicious slander on good people.”
1996: Congress bans the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from doing any research that could be used to “advocate or promote gun control,” effectively ending federally funded public health research on gun violence.
1997: The Clinton administration negotiates a deal with eight gunmakers to include trigger locks with their handguns.
1998: “I’m not a gun nut. I’m not even a member of the NRA,” says Colt’s CEO, who advocates the creation of federal gun permits.
1999: Colt develops a smart-gun prototype. It later abandons the project after the NRA threatens a boycott.
2000: Smith & Wesson agrees with the Clinton administration to enact various safety regulations. The NRA leads a boycott. The company’s sales drop 40 percent; it later backtracks.
2003: Congress passes the Tiahrt Amendment, blocking the ATF from releasing information on guns used in crimes. The data had been used to identify unscrupulous gun sellers and manufacturers.
2004: The federal assault weapons ban expires. <<<<<
2004: Bushmaster Firearms and a gun dealer agree to a $2.5 million settlement with victims of the DC Beltway snipers, who used a rifle designed to bypass the assault weapons ban.
2005: Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which blocked liability suits against gunmakers and sellers. Cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, and New York had sued over the effects of gun violence, rattling the industry. In 1999, NRA President Charlton Heston assured gun execs, “Your fight has become our fight.” The PLCAA shut down the ongoing litigation. The law reemerged as a major issue in the 2016 Democratic primary, with Hillary Clinton pressing Bernie Sanders to justify his vote for it. Sanders has argued gunmakers should not be held liable for the actions of “somebody who is crazy or a criminal”—but he has also said the current law should be repealed.
2008: The “Barack Boom” begins, with gun sales spiking in tandem with President Barack Obama’s election. A gun industry newsletter reports “incessant consumer demand for high-capacity pistols and military-style rifles.”
2009: Remington CEO George Kollitides runs for the NRA board. He doesn’t succeed, but he gets a seat on the organization’s powerful nominating committee, which controls who can run.
2013: America’s largest outdoor-sports show bans AR-15s and other military-style rifles out of deference to grieving Newtown families. After the NRA boycotts the show, it shuts down. The NRA then takes over the show and brings it back in 2014—with AR-15s.
2015: Walmart says it will no longer carry AR-15s or other military-style rifles, claiming they sold poorly. The NRA says it’s “disappointed” but stops short of calling for a boycott.
2015: Former Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.), who wrote the 1996 measure that killed the CDC’s research on gun violence, says he regrets the move. Regarding the lack of reliable data, he adds, “The status quo is not acceptable.”
2016: The Barrett .50-caliber sniper rifle, which can shoot through concrete blocks at a range of 3,000 feet, is named the state gun of Tennessee.
2016: Requests for FBI background checks on prospective gun buyers, an indicator of demand, reach record levels. Since 2008, gunmakers have produced or imported more than 75 million firearms for sale in the United States.
2017 Trump and the GOP , rollback the laws Obama had in place for mental health background checks..
Ringleaders of 2017
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OK Eaglewings let's call both Parties to a truce agreement.
1. If you want to ban certain GUNS deemed too dangerous and not ever necessary,
then agree to ban certain methods of ABORTION deemed not necessary to save lives.
If you believe one is a slippery slope that leads to overregulation,
then agree the other is a slippery slope that leads to overregulation.
If you believe prevention is the better way, then focus on prevention
in cases of abortion and gun violence. Don't punish innocent people
who don't intend to abuse the CHOICE of abortion or guns.
having the CHOICE without being punished for it
is not the same as abusing that choice to kill or murder.
Either treat Gun Rights and Abortion Rights with the same
respect you want for your own views, or STFU
2. If you want the govt and public to recognize LGBT beliefs, including same sex marriage as a belief,
then agree to recognize Christian beliefs including spiritual healing prayer
that has cured the causes of both mental and physical illness.
If you want moments of silence to be neutral,
then allow states to neutralize marriage as civil unions and
revert all social programs benefits and policies privately by
church or party or nonprofit groups that are private.
If you don't want Christian prayer or teaching in schools and govt,
then also remove all references to LGBT beliefs policies expression and practice.
Either open the door to all, or make all policies neutral and keep these choices in private.
treat Christian and LGBT beliefs the same, equally included or equally excluded,
or else it's discrimination by creed
Treat beliefs in Right to Life and Right to Health care the same:
either remove both from govt and keep these private choices,
or allow taxpayers the free and equal choice to fund one and defund the other
including either abortions or executions if people want to fund alternatives.
Instead of wasting money on problems, give taxpayers a choice of
funding or tax breaks for investing in solutions we believe in.
3. If you want free health care to be paid for by the people who use and support this,
then support medical research and development in Christian spiritual healing.
These methods would diagnose treat and cure people currently wasting
taxpayer money on failed prison and mental health systems that don't address the causes.
Spiritual healing not only identifies the causes and conditions but can reduce or cure
them.
3 sources of free help recommended for further medical R&D:
www.christianhealingmin.org
www.healingisyours.com
www.listentothecriesofthechildren.org
For faith based prison and work programs,
I recommend Prison Fellowship/Justice Fellowship
and Work Faith Connection. All these can help redirect resources
so we pay for education and health care instead of wasting
50K a year for each person in prison who can't work. For that
much money we can pay 30K a year toward training a doctor or nurse,
mentor or veteran, to create jobs in education health care and public services;
and 20K for a student or intern to learn on the job while completing their education.
4. If you don't believe in Christian or faith based solutions,
then look at secular programs proven to work and promote those in schools
so we can fund health care and education instead of failed prisons and mental health systems:
Rachel's Challenge
www.rachelchallenge.org
Alternatives to Violence Project
www.avpusa.org
No More Victims Inc, Marilyn Gambrell
http://www.nomorevictimsglobal.org/
Heidi Search Center, Dottie Laster
Home - The Heidi Search Center
PACE Universal Schools, Deepa Willingham
www.paceuniversal.com
The Nurturing Network, Mary Cunningham Agee
www.nurturingnetwork.org
Center for the Healing of Racism, Cherry Steinwender
www.centerhealingracism.org
These are just a few of the best secular nonprofits
I have found. the 3 best healing ministries I have found
are listed above for medical research and development.
Please research and promote these to any person, group,
leader or community that is seeking solutions we can all implement
if we want to change and prevent the violence and problems we most oppose.
Thank you
Emily Nghiem
www.earnedamnesty.org
www.ethics-commission.net
www.campusplan.org
www.freedmenstown.com
I am a Pro Life Christian democrat who counseled and helped pregnant addicted women getting them off the streets , clean and sober, taught them about God, they went to school and got their GED and they got on their feet to have a healthy baby..
So easy to complain, and say no to abortion, and cry out for Christian beliefs on the internet or in church
Pat Robertson ( who failed at running for office ) started this movement for the pro-life in 1993... they haven't really done much have they, except to gain votes for the Republicans.
I believe that these children saved by abortion should be able to eat, with a roof over their heads, yet the republicans like to cut meals for kids at school, or most everything these children need to survive..
This pushing Christian values on everyone, I find to be hypocritical..as we see the people running for office or in office scream about the gays, a christian values yet some are getting busted for having affairs.
I sent my boys to a private school to teach them the values I wanted them to learn..
You support shoving you values down others throat, yet protect guns that mass murder..I just don't get it.
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