All these articles recently are -- as usual -- planned from on high. The liberals have figured out that they can't move gun control through Congress, the legislatures and the courts, and so they're now going to "change the culture." They've been talking about how to implement their campaign over in the liberal/progressive blogs, and now they're doing it. They'll keep doing it too, and so we'll have to keep countering them, step by step, argument by argument. Don't give them space to breathe.
One terrorist group is responsible for more civilian deaths since December 2012 (the Sandy Hook massacre) than Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and the Taliban. Yet it is the only nearly-state sponsored terrorist group that is not listed by the U.S. State Department as such.
It is the National Rifle Association and for their unending lobbying that’s kept a lid on gun control we now have 428 times more American deaths by gun than deaths by foreign terrorists.
There's a difference between a political organization and a terrorist group. I think we have a pretty good handle on it here. The writer seems to have difficulty with basic concepts.
No? Between 2012 and 2015, according to University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database, ISIS has murdered approximately 12,138 civilians, Boko Haram,10,092, the Taliban 9,427 and Hamas, 85.
In that time, Americans have murdered or spree killed via gun and assault rifle, 87,423 people in the United States.
An assault rifle is a gun. I doubt anything close to the majority of those 87,423 killers were NRA members.
In contrast, terrorism killed 28 Americans per year on both U.S. soil and abroad according to the Global Terrorism Database.
Aha. The tweak is American deaths. I bet the total deaths from terrorism is an order of magnitude greater that, at least.
Those murdered Americans killed by our own lunatic gun slingers include terrified children calling for their mothers, teachers begging for the lives of their students, students begging for not just their own lives but the lives of their classmates, moviegoers looking for escape, bystanders cheering for athletes, athletes trying to be the best they can be as the worst we ever could have imagined struck them down in cold blood.
Such an emotional appeal to a problem that is so easily remedied. If those people were so terrified of being shot, they should get armed and learn for themselves to protect themselves, and not depend on government dicta.
America is supposed to be 'the home of the brave.' But there is nothing brave about blasting away nine innocent people at a college.
On that we and 100 million gun owners agree.
Therefore the NRA should take its rightful place on the State Department list of terrorist organizations, because its influence is more of an immediate threat to the lives of our citizens than foreign terrorists.
I understand you want to use the full power of the state to deal with your armed ideological enemies, but casting aspersions on a group of individuals who constantly use the phrase "law abiding citizen" is a bit much, don't you think?
How many NRA members have set off IEDs? Has any NRA member ever chopped anyone's head off? Blown up a train or an aircraft?
Although the NRA is not an officially state-sponsored organization it is the supporter of the state with its massive member and lobbyist donations to our elected officials.
So, the NRA isn't state sponsored, but it is sponsored by the NRA.
After the last no-vote on gun control, the British newspaper The Guardian did an analysis that showed 45 of the 48 senators who torpedoed gun control in Congress “have received money from firearms lobbyists.”
Shocking! Organizations using their cash and media to keep the terminally fascist from committing terminally stupid laws.
Organizations donating money to politicians who have similar political outlooks. Tut tut.
On Friday, even as the country’s collective heart was breaking again, faded pol and former-gun control advocate Rudy Giuliani, who will say anything to get on TV in a pathetic and dangerous attempt to be relevant (that ship has sailed, bub), went on “Fox & Friends” to rant about his now-support of guns, ranting that murderers don’t follow gun control laws.
No, but lax gun control laws put guns in those murderer’s hands.
Oregon has some of the strictest laws in the nation on allowing firearms transfers to individuals, just passed last spring. Even so, the shooter acquired a number of guns and proceeded to kill his ideological enemies, much in the same way your customers, the left, wish to do to gun owners.
On his visit, the Pope declared America to be the “Land of the free, home of the brave.” Really?
Sez so, right in the anthem.
How brave was it for a sexually frustrated, racist freak with six guns to shoot and kill eight students and a staffer at a college?
It took more balls than I have. That said, you must really be screwed up to want to kill so many people because of their religious views.
A culture that glorifies shooting people is more to blame than the guns the nutjobs use. The Columbine pinheads even dressed like their role models from The Matrix.
How brave was it for the sheriff there — a Sandy Hook non-believer — to write to the vice president of the United States after the Sandy Hook massacre to declare that neither he nor his deputies would enforce gun control restrictions if passed. They didn’t pass, so he didn’t have to. Now his citizens are dead and on Friday he presided over the victim’s family’s announcements. How does he sleep at night? How do we?
The sheriff was pointing out that as draconian as the laws of the nation and Oregon are, they do not work, because they can never work. America is the arsenal of democracy, and trying to change us into a pattern befitting a penal colony will never, can never work.