Q:How many NRA members does it take to change a light bulb?
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A: More Guns.
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They pay someone else.
I support NRA. I live with NRA members.
You can't offend or degrade NRA members. They shrug it off, and laugh.
I have never seen an NRA member change a light bulb, except the one time I asked.
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I was hoping for a good joke this morning...
like...
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
But you guys are so easily fooled.
I used to be a member but I cancelled when they endorsed HARRY REID.
BTW federal gun laws are unconstitutional. Where in Art 1 Sec VIII is gun control?
IMO you are the one that is fooled if:
1) You believe the NRA cares about gun control more than making sure they get to keep the guns they want
2) You believe that owning a gun is going to protect you from the USA government if indeed they choose to engage you in battle
3) You believe the USA government is going to engage you in battle
4) You believe that having everyone own and carry a gun is going to make life safer
It's the wild west. Time to evolve.
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Your gun control works so well in Chicago, doesn't it? Gun laws are only obeyed by the law-abiding.
I am not a member of the NRA, maybe you missed the part that I said I cancelled my membership. The NRA compromises. I do not. The rest of your bullets are off-topic and I'm not going to address them.
clearly, there is no easy answer, but this article makes a few good points to both sides.
http://news.yahoo.com/more-gun-laws-fewer-deaths-134804944.html
CHICAGO (AP) -- States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference.
But the research leaves many questions unanswered and won't settle the debate over how policymakers should respond to recent high-profile acts of gun violence.
In the dozen or so states with the most gun control-related laws, far fewer people were shot to death or killed themselves with guns than in the states with the fewest laws, the study found. Overall, states with the most laws had a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of laws.
The results are based on an analysis of 2007-2010 gun-related homicides and suicides from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers also used data on gun control measures in all 50 states compiled by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a well-known gun control advocacy group. They compared states by dividing them into four equal-sized groups according to the number of gun laws.
The results were published online Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
More than 30,000 people nationwide die from guns every year nationwide, and there's evidence that gun-related violent crime rates have increased since 2008, a journal editorial noted.
During the four-years studied, there were nearly 122,000 gun deaths, 60 percent of them suicides.
"Our motivation was really to understand what are the interventions that can be done to reduce firearm mortality," said Dr. Eric Fleegler, the study's lead author and an emergency department pediatrician and researcher at Boston Children's Hospital.
He said his study suggests but doesn't prove that gun laws — or something else — led to fewer gun deaths.
Fleegler is also among hundreds of doctors who have signed a petition urging President Barack Obama and Congress to pass gun safety legislation, a campaign organized by the advocacy group Doctors for America.
Gun rights advocates have argued that strict gun laws have failed to curb high murder rates in some cities, including Chicago and Washington, D.C. Fleegler said his study didn't examine city-level laws, while gun control advocates have said local laws aren't as effective when neighboring states have lax laws.
Previous research on the effectiveness of gun laws has had mixed results, and it's a "very challenging" area to study, said Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center For Gun Policy. He was not involved in the current study.
The strongest kind of research would require comparisons between states that have dissimilar gun laws but otherwise are nearly identical, "but there isn't a super nice twin for New Jersey," for example, a state with strict gun laws, Webster noted.
Fleegler said his study's conclusions took into account factors also linked with gun violence, including poverty, education levels and race, which vary among the states.
The average annual gun death rate ranged from almost 3 per 100,000 in Hawaii to 18 per 100,000 in Louisiana. Hawaii had 16 gun laws, and along with New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts was among states with the most laws and fewest deaths. States with the fewest laws and most deaths included Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
But there were outliers: South Dakota, for example, had just two guns laws but few deaths.
Editorial author Dr. Garen Wintemute, director the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, said the study doesn't answer which laws, if any, work.
Wintemute said it's likely that gun control measures are more readily enacted in states with few gun owners — a factor that might have more influence on gun deaths than the number of laws.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
If those people had more guns... then they wouldn't have killed themselves because they would be afraid of getting shot and killed.
Hail, Hail!!!
Hey...
Is suicide against the law?
If so, then those people are criminals and weren't very responsible in their gun ownership.
Hail, Hail!!!
wait what?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... asies.html
"The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming! And the Mexicans too.
That was the warning of Wayne LaPierre’s speech to CPAC this morning. LaPierre, the executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, delivered what was perhaps the most well received speech of the conference so far. The spokesman for the embattled gun advocacy group warned the crowd of conservatives activists that universal background checks for gun purchases was only a precursor for a government database which could be “hacked by the Chinese” or “given to the Mexican government.”
LaPierre’s entire speech was a window into what historian Richard Hofstater famously described as “the paranoid style in American politics.” He raged against "Powerful elites, who will always have armed security” who opposed the NRA’s proposal for armed security at every school and scorned out of touch liberals who wanted Americans to use scissors and ballpoint pens to defend themselves from criminals, rather than firearms.
LaPierre went on to warn that the gun control proponents don’t want to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals or the mentally ill, just “good law abiding people, people like you and me.”
The biggest applause came at the end of LaPierre’s speech when he mocked Joe Biden’s advice for American housewives to buy a shotgun to defend themselves. He told the Vice President, “you keep your advice, we’ll keep our guns."
LaPierre’s speech immediately followed a panel on why Republicans lost the 2012 election and what they could do differently in the future. But while the panelists discussed different ways for conservatives to change their message and reach out to new demographics, it was clear that the NRA’s spokesman didn’t feel the need to alter one word of his rhetoric."
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
let's go back to making jokes ... even bad ones
10 Reasons Why Men Prefer Guns Over Women
#10 - You can trade in an old 44 for a new 22...
#9 - You can keep one gun at home and have another for when you are on the road...
#8 - If you admire a friend's gun and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times...
#7 - Your primary gun doesn't mind if you keep another gun for a backup...
#6 - Your gun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo...
#5 - A gun doesn't take up a lot of closet space...
#4 - A gun functions normally every day of the month...
#3 - A gun doesn't ask, 'Do these grips make me look fat?'...
#2 - A gun doesn't mind if you go to sleep after you use it...
...AND...the
#1 reason a gun is favored over a woman...............
YOU CAN BUY A SILENCER FOR A GUN!!!
Isn't that how it works?
Like if the person was going to shoot himself and he had another gun to protect him, he could have saved the day and been a hero by killing the person who was going to shoot him.
Makes perfect sense to me. I Am NRA (and I vote (then think if the guy I didn't vote for wins, it's okay to shoot him))
Hail, Hail!!!
Question: Who will audit the Federal Reserve? The Feds? Arthur Andersen?
Question: What Military Police state? I don't know where you live, but I mostly see local Cypress Police roaming my streets, not Bradley Personel Carriers.
Question: Wouldn't the Domestic monetary policy remain in place, even if there is a Third or Fourth party candidate in office?
...
Question: HOW do you propose we 'fix' these things?
Hail, Hail!!!
I saw you canceled your membership. Just because you don't belong doesn;t mean you don't agree with their ridiculous point of view.
The rest of my bullets are off topic? The topic was a joke about the NRA, your entire post was off topic then.
Go hide in your closet with your gun and wait for the big bad government to come and try to take it.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yeah, you're right. Let's just leave things how they are, everything is going so well.
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