Posted on 06/07/2009 4:07:12 PM PDT by greatdefender
Despite Recent Violence, Gun Laws Are Softening Thirteen killed at an immigration center in New York. Eight at a nursing home in North Carolina. Five in a house in California. These were among the 57 people killed in mass shootings in a 30-day period this spring in the U.S. Meanwhile, new laws are easing restrictions on guns.
Congress recently approved a bill to allow guns in national parks. Tennessee has passed similar measures for its state parks. In South Carolina, a bill under debate would allow weapons on school grounds. Texas may welcome guns into bars. In Montana, a new law requires landlords and hotel owners to allow firearms on their premises.
The bills' supporters say these measures may actually help head off greater violence. "Crime can happen anywhere," says Andrew Arulanandam of the National Rifle Association. "The only thing that can stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. Law enforcement can't be everywhere, so law-abiding people should have as many options as possible if and when they are attacked."
T Gun-control advocates argue that weakening laws is disastrous. While it wouldn't necessarily lead to more mass shootings, they say, it would almost certainly increase the number of gun-related murders in the U.S. There are currently more than 11,500 each year, and America has one of the world's highest firearm homicide rates. Per capita, our rate is 39 times greater than that of England, 13 times Australia's, and 6 times Canada's.
"We have the equivalent of a Virginia Tech massacre every day in this country. It's just not all in one place," says Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. "It's what happens when a person gets mad and has easy access to a gun. Someone is shot over a game of dice. Had the gun not been in their hands, no one would have died."
So how many people were killed by knives in the same period? Airplanes, Cars? Heart attacks/suicide after looking at what 0be has done to their net worth?
**Had the gun not been in their hands, no one would have died.”**
Had the Mouth not been in your Head, you’d Still be STUPID!!
I seem to recall a study that said 2/3rds of homicides are gang related. Get rid of the drugs and you get rid of the homicide problem.
The right to keep and bear arms, you say? Hah! Try exercising that right when there's no guns or ammunition to be had. We're not there yet, but that's the tactic.
Of course, the Dems are not above big new anti gun legislation, either, in spite of the political costs. It's that important to them.
This morning it is down to only 93% Yes.
There must be a lot of anti-freedom types on it today.
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I just read this article. The gun-grabbers never give up, and they know the best place to spread their lies is among the dimwitted who get their “news” from Parade magazine.
I wonder what the libs who run these polls think when they’re consistently outvoted by 93%?
FReeped Poll still at 93%...
this seems to be common outcome for gun polls... anti gun votes get trounced by 70-90% the IDIOT LIBERALS keep trying... I guess they just KNOW BETTER... lol
Just last week a drooling news writer in my state was going on about how easy it was to get a CCW—two forms of ID (including either a passport or an original birth certificate), plus a state back ground check with finger prints. Heck, Obama couldn't pass that.
Here is an idea: equalize constitutional right certifications. For each state how one shall buy a gun is how one shall vote. Lets see what Acorn makes of that. Just for fun put F-troop in charge of looking for violations.
greatdefender
Since Feb 20, 2009
Yeah keep on chuckling at those “idiot” liberals. Meanwhile the republicans keep on trying to be like the democrats.
Still laughing?
Texas wants guns in bars? I’m not so sure I like that idea. Bars are supposed to be a little rowdy. How can people be rowdy when there’s people packing iron? How do you yourself get a little rowdy when you yourself are packing?
YEa ...especially when the RINO party ends up getting the MONDALE AWARD for Politics...
GOP is just as much a joke as the Liberals are...
YES SIR/Madam, I LAUGH AT BOTH!!!
I did!
“How do you yourself get a little rowdy when you yourself are packing?”
The law that just passed in Tennessee (to join 40 other states that allow people to carry where they serve alcohol) requires that if you carry there, you are not allowed to drink alcohol.
This is one of the oldest braindead arguments about guns, and it essentially states that guns cause murder. This of course does not explain the dozens (likely hundreds) of ways evil people have discovered to kill other people, and it does not explain the millions of murders that occurred prior to the invention of the firearm.
Guns cause Murder, as Spoons cause OBESITY!!!
Should states loosen restrictions on guns?
Yes — 94%
No — 6%
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