Yup, if you keep trying to move the goalposts, you could probably get the ZERO.
???? Who's moving goalposts? Who's trying to minimize the numbers? I explained the single rare reason why I might use the Mother Jones tally and why I prefer using the higher, much higher, Gun Violence Archive tally which was 693 "mass shootings" last year.
Why did you ignore my very easy to understand statement and instead invent this straw man, this opposite reality?
Why must you always misrepresent and lie?
Actually ALL the gun numbers are depressing. 43,000 gun deaths, 16,000 gun homicides, 70,000 gun injuries,
True but just because lumping them all together works for you, doesn't mean that blanket "gun control" policy change (especially directed at people who aren't criminals) will address the different dynamics and reduce those crimes. You think you are being insightful and compelling, all you are showing is your disingenuousness and pathological partisan myopia.
400,000 gun crimes (and no, that doesn't include some black dude merely HAVING a gun, which is what you want to throw them into a jail cell we don't have),
I'm for equal application of the law, prosecuting all illegal gun use without regard for the race of the offender . . .
213 BILLION in gun-related expenses, the completely loss of civil liberties in this country trying to accommodate a few fetishists....
The various governments have wide, near plenary powers to investigate, prosecute and punish criminals for crimes committed. Government has no express power to restrict the rights of the citizen to acquire, possess and use arms of a type in common use for lawful purpose.
Uh, guy, get real. The Europeans have more freedom than we do.
Why don't you "get real" and for once address what I write?
As late as the 1960's, the NRA and Sensible Republicans were passing common sense gun laws.
Well, the USA went quite a long time with no federal gun laws. In 1934 they wrote a gun law in the tax code. They knew they couldn't outright "ban"
any gun which is why they invented taxing the transfer of machine guns and sawed off shotguns between citizens. This law required all owners to buy a stamp to prove the $200 tax was paid.
Congressional power to tax is rarely challenged and even more rarely invalidated but the NFA-34 was essentially held to be unenforceable under the 5th Amendment in
Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968). The NFA-34 had to be saved and the GCA-68 did that (and much much more) by Congress claiming wide authority to regulate guns under the commerce clause.
The GCA-68 woke up gun owners to the degree the federal government was willing to impact regular gun owners and the gun rights movement was birthed . . . As you note in your typical disingenuous, bullshit spewing manner:
So what happened was that in the 1970's, the crazies hijacked the NRA, and the gun industry flooded our streets with cheaper, more deadly guns.
Your insane hyperbole never disappoints!
When the CDC showed that gun proliferation WAS the problem, Congress passed the Dickey Act to keep the CDC from studying gun violence.
And there it is! Every post from you has the requisite blatant lie . . .
When the victims of the DC Snipers successfully sued the gun sellers and makers, Congress passed a law exempting them from civil liability.
And of course, a disingenuous anti-gunner supports disingenuous lawsuits and their intent to abuse the courts to do what they can not legislatively.
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