[Second Amendment First]

Meanwhile, the Brady bunch is gearing up for a blood dance on January 8 to celebrate the Tuscon shootings.

[Travis McGee]

[American in Israel]

More guns on the street, and a six percent drop in violent crime. I don't find that grim at all. As in History socialist takeovers tend to lead to Mass Murders sometimes in the tens of millions, I find the increase in guns to be rather comforting. If the present crop of Socialists are so brain dead to be able to convince themselves they can spend there way out of a down turn in the economy, they are brain dead enough to decide to have a “purge for the good of the people” like all the other Socialist movements.

I for one don't like the idea of massive debt, or massive death.

Three cheers for an Armed Citizenry!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Fact: A loaded gun in the hands of an infant is far less dangerous than a printing press in the hands of the liars and agenda-whores at the New York Times.

[bkopto]

Message to NYT editorial board: FU

[marktwain]

A raft of studies have found that the presence of guns greatly increased the likelihood of homicide and suicide in households.

Virtually all of which have been discredited as being "progressive" agitprop.

[CrazyIvan]

“The gun lobby, fairly crowing, claims the spike in gun sales is because more people are feeling the need to protect themselves — even though the latest F.B.I. data show a 6 percent drop in violent crimes. A raft of studies have found that the presence of guns greatly increased the likelihood of homicide and suicide in households.”

Summary; Guns sales are up and crime is down but more guns cause more crime.

People read this stuff and believe it?

[driftdiver]

I was at a meeting with some people from that organization. One guy had pictures of his new baby. The newborn was already dressed in a BO shirt.

[Inwoodian]

The people see a worldwide Islamic incursion and a collaborationist government. Self-help is the only help one can count on. A million Charles Martels.

[353FMG]

An armed society is a polite society. Only safe place in town is at a gun show and at the firing range.

You will meet the nicest people there.

[Venturer]

A 6% drop in violent crimes with more guns on the street tells me that an armed society is a society that has less crime in it.

However the Times is trying to infer the exact opposite.

Maybe they should look a how Britains crime rate soared when they outlawed guns.

[Cicero]

The F.B.I. data are particularly grim given the approaching anniversary of the shooting rampage in Tucson that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords gravely shot in the head, six people dead, including a federal judge, and 13 others wounded.

Yeah. And the perp was a left-wing nutball with an arrest record, who was only issued a license because his mother was an influential DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN.

[ZULU]

In the world of the Screwed York Times, Up is Down, Down is Up, White is Black, etc.

This is GOOD news - for America. Bad news for the Screwed York Times and the nanno-cerebral idiots on the left and in the Pacifist Groups.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’ve got news for the Slimes. People are not buying weapons because they fear violent crime. They fear a tyrannical govt declaring martial law and coming for their guns and their food.

[Smokin' Joe]

No one knows how many more firearms were purchased through the gun-show loophole that enables black marketeering.

I bet they didn't include DOJ 'give-a-ways', either...

[andy58-in-nh]

"...another year of almost 100,000 people shot or killed with a gun."

The NYT reports this factoid as though causality or intention did not matter, which for Liberals, it often does not.

Nonetheless, it is a fabrication. The actual figures for 2011 are not yet complete nor have they been published. However, according to the Centers for Disease Control and also the National Center for Health Statistics, firearm injuries in the United States has averaged 32,300 deaths annually between 1980 and 2006, and have generally been declining since 1993.

[DTogo]

Stories you'll NEVER read about in the NYTimes:

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent non-white individuals with histories of mental illness from voting.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent female individuals with histories of mental illness from voting.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent female individuals with histories of mental illness from having abortions.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent gay individuals with histories of mental illness from marrying.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent individuals with histories of mental illness from receiving cruel and unusual punishment.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent individuals with histories of mental illness from receiving a fair trial by jury.

...improvements in the federal background check system and to have more states track and prevent individuals with histories of mental illness from exercising free speech.

EVERYTHING but the 2nd Amendment is always a RIGHT, whether it's in the Consititution or not.

[absalom01]

“assault clips”

Assault clips? Seriously?

[VeniVidiVici]

The gun lobby, fairly crowing, claims the spike in gun sales is because more people are feeling the need to protect themselves — even though the latest F.B.I. data show a 6 percent drop in violent crimes. A raft of studies have found that the presence of guns greatly increased the likelihood of homicide and suicide in households.

Sometimes I wonder to which Third World country the New York Times has outsourced its research and editorials.

[grumpygresh]

Right. The NYT cares about increased homicides and suicides in gun owning households. They hate gun owners, so why should they care? Their real agenda is obvious, socialism with its attendant police state.

[Spok]

“No one knows how many more firearms were purchased through the gun-show loophole that enables black marketeering”

Not having sufficient gag reflex control to read the entire article, does it mention the “DOJ running guns to the drug cartels” loophole?