Posted on 02/24/2014 10:37:43 PM PST by rktman
While car accident deaths among young people have been steadily declining over the past decade, gun deaths have remained relatively unchanged. As described in a new Center for American Progress report released Friday, if current trends continue, gun deaths will surpass car accident deaths among young people sometime in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationofchange.org ...
I won’t be reading the article but I’m guessing those gun deaths are 90% gang and drug trafficking related. They are crime statistics.
Maybe in Chicago...
Center for American Progress is another Soros operation. Most likely, everyone who works there is a fascist. People better wake up because Soros is funding fascist and muslim terrorist organizations around the world.
No, according to the new parenting guidelines, kids are kids until they are 26 apparently and you are responsible until that time. LOL! Sure ain’t like the “old” days is it?
As jojo biden might say: “One word. Common Core Math.”
Thank goodness we have the evil Koch Brothers to counter the soros bunch huh? LOL!
[Video] TX Gov Rick Perry Owns CT Gov Dan Malloy During Gun Control Debate on CNN
February 24 2014
by Dan Cannon
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Rarely do we see state governors debating each other on national television, but that’s exactly what we got to see on CNN’s State of the Union recently.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, a noted anti-gunner and a big reason CT passed such strict gun control laws last year was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if he thought gun laws in other states undermined CT’s ability to regulate guns with their strict laws. Malloy said,
I think we have a federal problem in the sense that we are rejecting the idea that we should have tighter controls on who has a gun. Universal background checks would make everyone safer in their states and in mine. It is a starting point. We should not be assigning or allowing folks who have mental health challenges currently to acquire guns.
We should not have a system that allows people who have extensive criminal records to get around –
When Crowley asked the other governor’s present if they agreed with Malloy, Texas Governor Rick Perry was the first to speak up,
Certainly not – the Second Amendment pretty much is a good amendment. And we support it in the state of Texas. The restrictions that you’ve seen states like Connecticut – when you think about the northeast, that was the Silicon Valley, if you will, of gun manufacturing. And you’re seeing those manufacturers leaving the northeast because of the taxation, the regulations, and just the attitude towards manufacturers of weapons.
As a matter of fact, Governor Bentley, was announced on Monday, Remington is moving 2,000 jobs being created there in Huntsville. Governor Haslam in Tennessee welcomed Beretta into his state. We invited Magpool into Texas. So, you’re seeing a shift of these manufacturers out of states that don’t want them there. And I think that is an appropriate move and an appropriate conversation for us to have.
And you’re absolutely right about the Tenth Amendment in the states. I know these governors will make decisions that are best for their citizens. Now, we compete against each other and that’s good.
All the new laws point to Texting as the greatest cause of death among youths/teens these days.
Oh, Wait! "Youths and Teens" are the new media code words for black kids, so there must be quite an uptick in gang-banger projected shootings/deaths.
Not having read the article, I don’t know if this is legitimate. However, let us assume for the moment that it is correct, and gun deaths among young people are remaining unchanged while automobile deaths are declining. Why might that be?
I would suggest that the availability of cars has nothing to do with the decline of auto deaths; the decline has everything to do with teaching. When I was in high school, we had a quarter (12 weeks) of Driver’s Ed to prepare for getting our learner’s permits. Because we take such care to teach our children how to drive safely, they are more likely to practice safe driving techniques.
Compare that to our approach to firearms. Rather than teach children proper firearms safety in school (leaving Boy Scouts and other organizations out of the equation for now), we teach them to fear anything that even resembles a firearm. And because we tell them to fear guns, they get curious about why guns are so bad, so they are more likely to play with an actual gun if they find it.
If we want the rate of firearms-related deaths among children to decrease, the first place to start would be by making NRA firearms safety courses part of the school curriculum at a fairly young age (perhaps one each in elementary, middle, and high school, with the high school class including range time shooting handguns and rifles).
“Young people.”
I hear dog whistles.
I’d like to re-read my comment to see what I said that was so offensive.
What ever it was, it must have been doozy to get yanked.
It was. You don’t have any idea the language you are writing for public consumption when you post?
Carbon monoxide in a closed garage sounds like a motor vehicle suicide to me. Not an unusual way to off oneself.
IIRC, modern cars emit so little CO that it’s harder to commit suicide that way, but not impossible.
well, thanks for bringing me up to speed.
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