Posted on 12/04/2012 5:43:40 PM PST by marktwain
The Century 16 Cineplex in Aurora, Colorado, stands desolate behind a temporary green fence, which was raised to protect the theater from prying eyes and mischief-makers.
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After Columbine, Colorado closed its “gun-show loophole,” but efforts to close the loophole on the national level failed. The National Rifle Association and other anti-gun-control groups worked diligently to defend the loophole—misnamed, because while loophole suggests a small opening not easily negotiated, about 40 percent of all legal gun sales take place at gun shows, on the Internet, or through more-informal sales between private sellers and buyers, where buyers are not subject to federal background checks. Though anti-loophole legislation passed the U.S. Senate, it was defeated in the House of Representatives. On top of that, the 1994 ban on sales of certain types of semiautomatic weapons, known as the assault-weapons ban, expired in 2004 and was not reauthorized.
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To that 26 percent, American gun culture can seem utterly inexplicable, its very existence dispiriting. Guns are responsible for roughly 30,000 deaths a year in America; more than half of those deaths are suicides. In 2010, 606 people, 62 of them children younger than 15, died in accidental shootings.
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Today, more than 8 million vetted and (depending on the state) trained law-abiding citizens possess state-issued “concealed carry” handgun permits, which allow them to carry a concealed handgun or other weapon in public. Anti-gun activists believe the expansion of concealed-carry permits represents a serious threat to public order. But what if, in fact, the reverse is true? Mightn’t allowing more law-abiding private citizens to carry concealed weapons—when combined with other forms of stringent gun regulation—actually reduce gun violence?
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Are motor vehicles responsible for highway fatalities?
You can expect the gun grabber left to push for government control over your private property as a way of getting to registration and confiscation.
This is their Holy Grail – as soon as they can control the purchase of guns they can track these sales and compile lists of who has what.
Once they have that, it’s onto registration – and everyone knows that registration is effectively Confiscation.
And make no mistake – CONFISCATION is their ultimate goal.
Um, how many children under 15 died in accidental drownings in backyard pools in 2010?
From the figures at your link, about 700 children aged 14 and under die from drowning each year. That is more than 10 time the number who die from firearms accidents.
NO
Guns are not responsible for ANY deaths in America! PEOPLE are responsible, and they use a variety of methods.
Unfortunately, people drown every summer, but the lakes and swimming holes are NOT responsible.
God how I despise the leftist gun-grabbing hoplophobes!
/rant off
There are far fewer swimming pools than guns, so on a death per pool basis, they're even more deadly than firearms.
Therefore we must immediately call for the banning and filling in of all backyard swimming pools. It's for the childrenTM.
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