I’m proud of this story, it shows that my NRA dollars are going towards lots of good things. The critics want to make it illegal for children to shoot guns, because like the Hitler Youth, they know their window of opportunity to brainwash them is short.
The Osama Bin Laden Network is at it again with their propaganda article:
Ironically, some of the people leaving comments disagree:
“Why is this article about gun ownership and not the illegal violence that these so called “role models” portray in america? Any AMERICAN should be allowed to own a firearm period. This is the United States, and they should be allowed to exercise their second amendment rights just as much as me, and any other resident or citizen in the united states should be. That is part of our identity, and our narrative.
For a few days we’ve been celebrating that Harvard published a study that showed gun control laws did not reduce gun crime, well, looks like the celebration has come to an end.
“A new study published by Dr. Matthew Miller, associate professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, offers powerful evidence to the contrary, showing that while rates of suicide attempts are virtually identical in states with high and low gun ownership, the number of gun deaths from suicide are four times higher in states with high gun ownership, where about half the people live in homes with guns. Overall suicide rates are also higher, but the rate of suicides that did not use guns was not”.
Source: http://www.boston.com/news/science/blogs/science-in-mind/2013/09/06/harvard-study-finds-gun-the-home-increases-risk-suicide/Ab0CurEcKHhPm7clW9NIPO/blog.html
Right, and people who don’t own cars are less likely to drive drunk. What’s your point, Mr. Miller? Yes, committing suicide with a gun is probably easier than taking sleeping pills or jumping out of a bridge. So what?
“If you look back to cigarette smoking and lung cancer and the history of the resistance that was put up and the uncertainty that was manufactured by the cigarette industry, it is almost like a blueprint for many of the arguments that pro-gun forces have made in the US,” Miller said. “But the evidence has really gotten over the last 10 years or so to be overwhelming.”
Oh, so you’re comparing smoking with gun ownership? While I don’t believe a lot of the anti-smoking propaganda out there, let’s assume that the propaganda is correct and smoking causes Cancer. OK, the prove to me that owning a gun causes suicide.
“Far from advocating for the abolition of gun ownership or even gun control, researchers such as Miller argue that lives could be saved by removing guns from the home when a family member is depressed or angry or at risk of self-harm.”
Great, so we’re going to have neighbors reporting neighbors, sons reporting fathers, and other anti-gun people making a ruckus so they can take away our guns. Brilliant, Mr. Miller, have you bought your swastika yet? I’d bet you’d look real nice with it.
“If I have a kid who is moody and having problems or a husband or wife who just lost a job and is being issued divorce papers, or just going through a rough time, the best thing I can do to reduce that person’s immediate risk of death from suicide” is to take guns out of the house.
There are already ways to put someone who’s a danger to himself in funny farm. The last thing we need is another gestapo-like government agency knocking on our doors and grabbing our guns.
Here’s an idea, Mr. Miller. Mind your own business! Try researching things that really matter, such as a cure for Herpes or AIDS or some actual disease that hurts people. Suicide is a bad choice, but it’s an individual choice, and a person bent on killing himself will find a way.
Liberals are famous for saying stupid things, ever heard the cliche “is better that 10 guilty men to go free than for one innocent go to jail”? I’m an individualist, but the idea that 10 rapist should go free just because the system isn’t perfect is really idiotic.
“The sponsors of House Bill 1229 said the 561 background checks processed in July by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for private sales and the denials issued means one thing: The bill is working.
“I’m excited to hear that 10 people were denied access to guns because they were unqualified,” said state Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, one of the two sponsors of the bill.”
Source: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24026920/colorado-checks-private-gun-sales-net-10-denials
Wow! So I guess those 10 people are now rotting away in jail? Away from decent law-abiding folks? Of course not. Denial doesn’t mean incarceration, in fact, we don’t know if some of these people got denied by mistake, which means they won’t be denied in the future, but fine, let’s assume these 10 were bangers. OK, what are they gonna do? Give up their life of crime? “Gee, I was denied access to guns so now I’m going to start a home painting business.” Really?
So thanks to liberals, 551 people have to be inconvenienced so 10 can be denied of a gun they’ll end up buying somewhere else.
“A gun in the hands of the wrong person is devastating,” Carroll said. “If it (the law) keeps a gun out of the hands of one person who shouldn’t have one, then it is working.”
Sure, and if we amputate the hands of people they won’t be able to shoot guns, why not try that?
“State Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, said the law has not made anyone safer.
“It was already illegal to sell or transfer a gun to someone you knew couldn’t legally have one,” he said.
In addition, Brophy said, during the legislative debates for the bill, Democrats claimed nearly 40 percent of gun sales were done privately, a figure far below what the CBI data show. The 561 private checks processed in July represent 2.9 percent of the total number of background checks for gun sales that month.”
But who cares? If Democrats wanted to fight crime they could have passed pro-gun laws that let us fight crime ourselves. They could also build more prisons, expand the death penalty, even bringing back Roman Gladiator Games so the criminals can kill each other is far more productive than the crap these people do.
Fine, I joke about gladiator games (although I would attend those games if I could) but you get my meaning.
The People’s Republic of Chicago has a new proposal that “would require any establishment that serves alcohol to post signs prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms on the property. Businesses that don’t comply could lose their liquor licenses.”
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“Simply put, booze and bullets don’t mix,” Burke said in a news release. “They clearly present a very dangerous combination. That is why Chicago needs to enact this local requirement in order to protect the public.”
…”Bar and restaurant owners would be exempted from the ban on concealed firearms at their establishments, as would current and retired police officers.”
Source: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/06/aldermen-seek-to-make-bars-restaurants-gun-free-zones/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=487691
In Chattanooga, there is no such requirement. Of course, if I go to a business that serves alcohol while carrying my gun, the law doesn’t allow me to drink alcohol.
But let’s give Burke’s argument a chance, he says that “booze and bullets don’t mix” yet he allows bar and restaurant owners to be exempted from the ban they would have to impose on their customers? How come? I watch Bar Rescue, irresponsible bar owners have been known to drink on the job.
And what about knives? How come you don’t see them posting Knife-Free Zones? And what about men who are built like bouncers? How come they’re allowed to drink? If we followed liberal logic to the end, the only people allowed into a bar would be midgets in wheelchairs.
Let’s get real, society worked perfectly fine before gun-bans and drinking ages, if you study history you’ll see that there was a time in countries like England where even children used to drink beer because it was safer than water.
Both prohibition and gun control are failed experiments, because both of them assume that bad people stop being bad when you tell them it’s against the law to be bad. But don’t expect a Chicago Alderman to understand that, no matter how much gun crime they experience, no matter the bloodshed, these people will continue doing the same gun control thing while expecting a different result.