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Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
A lot of gang members know the person they're shooting at. So do drug dealers. Face it, take away criminal on criminal shootings and we're on par with the rest of the world, PLUS we still have guns.Since the vast majority of legal gun owners will never commit a crime or shoot anyone I would say violence does not accompany gun ownership. And violence is certainly not enshrined in the Constitution.
Most undocumented immigrants don't commit violent crimes... but you want to round them all up.
The crime and violence in this country are social ills and have nothing to do with people who legally own guns.
Again- most people who are killed with guns are killed by people they know. A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than a bad guy.
The thing is, I agree, if you limited gun ownership to responsible people, you wouldn't have a problem.
Except if you did that, most people wouldn't really want them.
The gun industry wants the bad guys in that three block radius to have lots of guns so you get scared and want them, too.
If someone is a stalker, with a restraining order - can't infringe on his rights to get a gun.Or just druggies and alcoholics can go on a shooting spree or kill a spouse. I made the point when we first got married, no guns in the house.Meanwhile, 1 in 6 ADULTS are diagnosed with mental illness in this country. Many of them own guns, I suspect.Dems can't win on gun control because their proposals are beyond stupid! Heaping gun control laws onto already law abiding gun owners accomplishes none of the gun control objectives. Meanwhile the criminals and mentally ill IGNORE gun control laws. This is why law abiding gun owners tell gun control advocates to fuck off!I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
"Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (51.5 million in 2019). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
Mental Illness
An overview of statistics for mental illnesses. Mental illnesses are common in the United States. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.www.nimh.nih.gov
Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
If someone is a stalker, with a restraining order - can't infringe on his rights to get a gun.Or just druggies and alcoholics can go on a shooting spree or kill a spouse. I made the point when we first got married, no guns in the house.Meanwhile, 1 in 6 ADULTS are diagnosed with mental illness in this country. Many of them own guns, I suspect.Dems can't win on gun control because their proposals are beyond stupid! Heaping gun control laws onto already law abiding gun owners accomplishes none of the gun control objectives. Meanwhile the criminals and mentally ill IGNORE gun control laws. This is why law abiding gun owners tell gun control advocates to fuck off!I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
"Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (51.5 million in 2019). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
Mental Illness
An overview of statistics for mental illnesses. Mental illnesses are common in the United States. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.
If someone is mentally ill - can't infringe on his rights either.
Someone here had no problem with little kids having guns.
This is nuts.
broadandliberty.com
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
The one you have to WAIT until he's KILLED before you do anything.
Brilliant right?
But for some bizarre reason, you seem to think having a registry (which infringes on no right in away shape or form)...being required to display some basic knowledge that you know how to handle a deadly weapon (who's sole purpose is for killing something) safely - is an infringement.
Yet...hmmm....I'm not allowed to engage in bigamy, if my religion requires it...in fact there are a lot of things I can't do in the name of religion. Either my rights are being infringed upon or....no right is unlimited.
www.wapt.com
If someone is a stalker, with a restraining order - can't infringe on his rights to get a gun.Or just druggies and alcoholics can go on a shooting spree or kill a spouse. I made the point when we first got married, no guns in the house.Meanwhile, 1 in 6 ADULTS are diagnosed with mental illness in this country. Many of them own guns, I suspect.Dems can't win on gun control because their proposals are beyond stupid! Heaping gun control laws onto already law abiding gun owners accomplishes none of the gun control objectives. Meanwhile the criminals and mentally ill IGNORE gun control laws. This is why law abiding gun owners tell gun control advocates to fuck off!I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
"Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (51.5 million in 2019). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
Mental Illness
An overview of statistics for mental illnesses. Mental illnesses are common in the United States. One in six U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.
If someone is mentally ill - can't infringe on his rights either.
Someone here had no problem with little kids having guns.
This is nuts.
No.....you idiot....the guns were locked up in their home....locked up....not sitting on the drive way.
If someone is a stalker, if the police can't deal with them, that is on you shitheads...meanwhile, you prevent the women from being able to get a gun to stop the stalker.......
And the mentally ill? You are an idiot...we already have laws that allow us to commit people who are dangerous to themselves or others......that also allows us to take their guns...we have those already......you just want to be able to classify normal gun owners as crazy so you can just take their guns...
Everyone wants to stop dangerous people from getting guns. The hot new policy option before this committee is Red Flag laws, which take away the guns of people deemed dangerous to themselves or others. But there is a much more effective alternative already in place.
They are known as Baker Act statutes (Pennsylvania’s is called the “Mental Health Procedures Act”), and have been around since the early 1970s. They allow police, doctors and family members to have someone typically held in most states for a 72-hour mental health examination based upon a simple reasonableness test – little more than a guess or a hunch. The hold in Pennsylvania is up to 120 hours.
These laws focus on mental illness, and they require that the individual be evaluated by mental-health-care experts. If a person can’t afford a lawyer, a public defender is provided. While judges can involuntarily commit an individual they believe is a danger to themselves or others, there is a range of options they can take, with the threat that other options can be followed up with involuntary commitment.
However, instead of using these laws, 17 states have now adopted Red Flag laws, with 13 states passing them since the shootings at the high school in Parkland, Fla. While Red Flag laws are often discussed in terms of mental illness and they are frequently used in connection with concerns about suicide, only one state’s law even mentions mental illness and none of the states requires that a mental-health expert be involved in evaluating the person.
And, unlike Baker Act statutes, these new laws don’t offer safeguards, such as providing a public defender for individuals who can’t afford a lawyer or covering their legal costs. When faced with legal bills that can easily amount to $10,000 for a hearing, few think that owning a gun justifies these costs.
John Lott: We don’t need Red Flag laws – we have the tools in place to help the mentally ill and protect people’s rights
Baker Act statutes are a better alternative. They require an evaluation by a mental-health expert and a public defender is provided if needed.
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
The one you have to WAIT until he's KILLED before you do anything.
Brilliant right?
But for some bizarre reason, you seem to think having a registry (which infringes on no right in away shape or form)...being required to display some basic knowledge that you know how to handle a deadly weapon (who's sole purpose is for killing something) safely - is an infringement.
Yet...hmmm....I'm not allowed to engage in bigamy, if my religion requires it...in fact there are a lot of things I can't do in the name of religion. Either my rights are being infringed upon or....no right is unlimited.
Maybe if this idiot had been required to take a basic gun safety course, her kid might not have shot her other kid because he wouldn't have gotten ahold of the gun in the first place.
2-year-old child finds gun, accidentally shoots sibling in head
The woman’s 2-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son were left outside in her car while she and her boyfriend were allegedly inside visiting with a friend.
You could even treat it like you do driving - start in highschool, offer optional classes to learn to shoot, learn to be safe, learn the protocals.
The problem is....in criminal related shootings....non-criminals get killed.A lot of gang members know the person they're shooting at. So do drug dealers. Face it, take away criminal on criminal shootings and we're on par with the rest of the world, PLUS we still have guns.Since the vast majority of legal gun owners will never commit a crime or shoot anyone I would say violence does not accompany gun ownership. And violence is certainly not enshrined in the Constitution.
Most undocumented immigrants don't commit violent crimes... but you want to round them all up.
The crime and violence in this country are social ills and have nothing to do with people who legally own guns.
Again- most people who are killed with guns are killed by people they know. A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than a bad guy.
The thing is, I agree, if you limited gun ownership to responsible people, you wouldn't have a problem.
Except if you did that, most people wouldn't really want them.
The gun industry wants the bad guys in that three block radius to have lots of guns so you get scared and want them, too.
Maybe if this idiot had been required to take a basic gun safety course, her kid might not have shot her other kid because he wouldn't have gotten ahold of the gun in the first place.
2-year-old child finds gun, accidentally shoots sibling in head
The woman’s 2-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son were left outside in her car while she and her boyfriend were allegedly inside visiting with a friend.
You could even treat it like you do driving - start in highschool, offer optional classes to learn to shoot, learn to be safe, learn the protocals.
2/3 of all accidental gun deaths of children are a result of parents who are criminals who have the guns illegally, you fucking doofus........
And how many children die of accidental gun deaths......out of 40 million or more children in the country...?
Fatal Injury and Violence Data | WISQARS | Injury Center | CDC
2019 0-14.....51
2018......
Guns......54
More children die in cars and pools than from gun accidents.......you idiot.
The problem is....in criminal related shootings....non-criminals get killed.A lot of gang members know the person they're shooting at. So do drug dealers. Face it, take away criminal on criminal shootings and we're on par with the rest of the world, PLUS we still have guns.Since the vast majority of legal gun owners will never commit a crime or shoot anyone I would say violence does not accompany gun ownership. And violence is certainly not enshrined in the Constitution.
Most undocumented immigrants don't commit violent crimes... but you want to round them all up.
The crime and violence in this country are social ills and have nothing to do with people who legally own guns.
Again- most people who are killed with guns are killed by people they know. A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than a bad guy.
The thing is, I agree, if you limited gun ownership to responsible people, you wouldn't have a problem.
Except if you did that, most people wouldn't really want them.
The gun industry wants the bad guys in that three block radius to have lots of guns so you get scared and want them, too.
Other countries have equal rates of gangs and drug dealers....but not equal rates of deaths. Or police deaths.
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
The one you have to WAIT until he's KILLED before you do anything.
Brilliant right?
But for some bizarre reason, you seem to think having a registry (which infringes on no right in away shape or form)...being required to display some basic knowledge that you know how to handle a deadly weapon (who's sole purpose is for killing something) safely - is an infringement.
Yet...hmmm....I'm not allowed to engage in bigamy, if my religion requires it...in fact there are a lot of things I can't do in the name of religion. Either my rights are being infringed upon or....no right is unlimited.
The purpose of my guns is to save my life and that of my family......so you are just wrong and stupid.
Americans use their guns 1.1 million times a year not to kill....but to save lives, from rape, brutal beatings, robberies and murders....often without firing a single shot...driving the criminals away, capturing the criminals and holding them for police or for the really stupid criminals wounding them.....of those 1.1 million times guns are used for self defense.....235 criminals pushed the attack to the point they had to be shot, and were unlucky in that the shots fired killed them..
Guns save lives. Guns save innocent lives.
Maybe if this idiot had been required to take a basic gun safety course, her kid might not have shot her other kid because he wouldn't have gotten ahold of the gun in the first place.
2-year-old child finds gun, accidentally shoots sibling in head
The woman’s 2-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son were left outside in her car while she and her boyfriend were allegedly inside visiting with a friend.
You could even treat it like you do driving - start in highschool, offer optional classes to learn to shoot, learn to be safe, learn the protocals.
2/3 of all accidental gun deaths of children are a result of parents who are criminals who have the guns illegally, you fucking doofus........
And how many children die of accidental gun deaths......out of 40 million or more children in the country...?
Fatal Injury and Violence Data | WISQARS | Injury Center | CDC
2019 0-14.....51
2018......
Guns......54
More children die in cars and pools than from gun accidents.......you idiot.
No indication that she was a criminal with an illegal gun.
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
The one you have to WAIT until he's KILLED before you do anything.
Brilliant right?
But for some bizarre reason, you seem to think having a registry (which infringes on no right in away shape or form)...being required to display some basic knowledge that you know how to handle a deadly weapon (who's sole purpose is for killing something) safely - is an infringement.
Yet...hmmm....I'm not allowed to engage in bigamy, if my religion requires it...in fact there are a lot of things I can't do in the name of religion. Either my rights are being infringed upon or....no right is unlimited.
The purpose of my guns is to save my life and that of my family......so you are just wrong and stupid.
Americans use their guns 1.1 million times a year not to kill....but to save lives, from rape, brutal beatings, robberies and murders....often without firing a single shot...driving the criminals away, capturing the criminals and holding them for police or for the really stupid criminals wounding them.....of those 1.1 million times guns are used for self defense.....235 criminals pushed the attack to the point they had to be shot, and were unlucky in that the shots fired killed them..
Guns save lives. Guns save innocent lives.
The PURPOSE of guns is to do one thing: kill something. Animal or human.
If it "saves lives" it also "takes lives". And because of that, it behooves us to make sure people are as responsible and knowledgeable as possible. Doing so does not prevent you from buying a gun (frankly if you can't hit what you're aiming at with it you have no business shooting it and if you don't how to behave responsibly with a gun, you have no business owning one).
Ooops. You lose. Or rather someone loses, you know, the dead guy.Doesn't matter.I recently changed my stance on gun-control. I think it's a dead-end and only harms the Democratic Party.
Guns and the violence that accompanies it are too embedded in American culture, they enshrined it in their Constitution for Christ's sake.
Moreover, Americans are too fearful to ever put down their guns, so the Democrats need to wise up and just drop the issue.
At the very least change their stance and go full-bore in the opposite direction, I say flood the country w/guns and ammunition, let them buy weapons till their wallets burst.
However, at the same time, they need to promote gun safety and consequences for the lack thereof. Every gun owner should be insured, if not, they should be held financially and criminally liable if/when necessary.
Also, keep better track of them, that goes w/the previous sentence.
Let people get and keep their guns to theirheartscontent, but let's all be safe about it.
Guns should be handled like cars. Maintain a registry, pass a basic gun safety and knowledge test, show you can hit something, and be licensed and insured.
Driving isn't a right.
NO right is unlimited.
How about not being a 2nd amendment zealot and consider some win win solutions? Nah. That would take common sense and I wouldn't expect that from someone who's only solution is MORE GUNS and MORE GUNS - it's a big industry after all.
We have win win solutions.....when someone uses a gun to commit a crime, we arrest them and put them in jail and then prison...
Win Win....what you want is to limit the Right of owning and carrying a gun to the point no one is capable of getting through the Red Tape, pay the taxes and fees and mandatory insurance and pass the massive training requirements.....so that few if any normal people can own and carry guns....that is what you mean by win win solutions.....
My way works, yours doesn't.....my way targets and stops actual criminals, your way disarms normal Americans in the face of violent criminals and future, out of control government.
The one you have to WAIT until he's KILLED before you do anything.
Brilliant right?
But for some bizarre reason, you seem to think having a registry (which infringes on no right in away shape or form)...being required to display some basic knowledge that you know how to handle a deadly weapon (who's sole purpose is for killing something) safely - is an infringement.
Yet...hmmm....I'm not allowed to engage in bigamy, if my religion requires it...in fact there are a lot of things I can't do in the name of religion. Either my rights are being infringed upon or....no right is unlimited.
The purpose of my guns is to save my life and that of my family......so you are just wrong and stupid.
Americans use their guns 1.1 million times a year not to kill....but to save lives, from rape, brutal beatings, robberies and murders....often without firing a single shot...driving the criminals away, capturing the criminals and holding them for police or for the really stupid criminals wounding them.....of those 1.1 million times guns are used for self defense.....235 criminals pushed the attack to the point they had to be shot, and were unlucky in that the shots fired killed them..
Guns save lives. Guns save innocent lives.
The PURPOSE of guns is to do one thing: kill something. Animal or human.
If it "saves lives" it also "takes lives". And because of that, it behooves us to make sure people are as responsible and knowledgeable as possible. Doing so does not prevent you from buying a gun (frankly if you can't hit what you're aiming at with it you have no business shooting it and if you don't how to behave responsibly with a gun, you have no business owning one).
