America's Gun Violence

eeriepadave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AV8_egMiU

HesCalledDyer

I still don't understand why people can't let go of this hard-on they have for guns.

Halifax2TheMax

Football pisses off some "responsible" gun owners.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/09/gillette-stadium-threat-arrest-foxboro-new-england-patriots-tobias-gray-antonio-brown-new-york-giants/

dankind

Halifax2TheMax said:

Football pisses off some "responsible" gun owners.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/09/gillette-stadium-threat-arrest-foxboro-new-england-patriots-tobias-gray-antonio-brown-new-york-giants/

The suspect is not a gun owner.

But if he were....

mcgruff10

U.S.

Poll: Majority Backs Banning Assault-Style Rifles, Opposes Federal Gun-Confiscation Program

A majority of Americans supports banning the future sale of assault-style rifles but is against a federal gun-confiscation program that would force current owners to forfeit such weapons, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

About 56 percent of respondents in the Monmouth poll supported banning assault-style weapons, while 38 percent opposed it. Only 43 percent of respondents supported a “mandatory buyback program,” in which the federal government would confiscate such weapons from current owners, while 53 percent of respondents opposed such a program.

“An assault weapons sales ban has majority support but there are deep pockets of opposition among gun-owning Americans,” said poll director Patrick Murray. “There is even greater opposition to programs that would try to take these weapons out of the hands of people who already own them.”

Other gun-control measures tested in the poll garnered more significant bipartisan support. 83 percent of those polled said they support comprehensive background checks for gun purchases. About 75 percent of respondents, including 59 percent of those who are NRA members, said they support “red-flag laws,” which allow those close to an individual, such as family members, to petition a court to temporarily restrict the individual’s access to firearms if they believe the he poses a threat of violence. 62 percent also said they support establishing a national gun registry, a database of all guns in the U.S.

The poll of 800 American adults was conducted by telephone between August 16 and August 20, several weeks after a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas Walmart, killing 22, and another shooter opened fire a day later in Dayton, Ohio, killing 10

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-majority-backs-banning-assault-173456439.html

ed243421

https://www.wcvb.com/article/worker-at-auburn-dies-in-accidental-shooting-at-auburn-warehouse-police-say/28967660

Gern Blansten

HesCalledDyer said:

I still don't understand why people can't let go of this hard-on they have for guns.

It's so stupid.  I have gotten into a few arguments against gun nuts that didn't even own guns.  

The % of the population that would be affected by an assault rifle ban and/or gun registration is unbelievably small.  It's become a red-team issue to oppose it.  

HesCalledDyer

https://twitter.com/thegoodgodabove/status/1171863900914114560

This about sums it up... priorities.

Halifax2TheMax

“Responsible” gun owner? Get a visit from the secret service, undergo a mental health screening?

https://apple.news/AsUQFQX9CROmPz6mpIRBQuw

PJPOWER

Halifax2TheMax said:

“Responsible” gun owner? Get a visit from the secret service, undergo a mental health screening?

https://apple.news/AsUQFQX9CROmPz6mpIRBQuw

Oh my!  They both are acting like children.

Bentleyspop

Hmmmmm.....

 NASCAR shocks gun industry as it appears to block some firearm ads https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/politics/nascar-bans-gun-ads-souvenir-program/index.html

Halifax2TheMax

More “responsible” gun owners. Pales in comparison to what’s going on in St. Louis though.

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2019/09/14/three-teens-shot-at-virginia-high-school-football-game

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/09/13/young-girl-accidentally-shot-by-neighbor-cleaning-shotgun

Halifax2TheMax

Another “responsible” gun owner. But she didn’t shoot anyone. Yet.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/trending-now/oklahoma-deputies-find-ak-47-magazines-after-arresting-teen-accused-of-school-threat/987034374

Bentleyspop

Halifax2TheMax said:

Another “responsible” gun owner. But she didn’t shoot anyone. Yet.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/trending-now/oklahoma-deputies-find-ak-47-magazines-after-arresting-teen-accused-of-school-threat/987034374

Nothing wrong with utilizing your god given right to own a gun.

And of course your god given right to threaten the lives of others with that god given gun.

Lerxst1992

We've been having a nice chat in the Dem candidate topic. An interesting little tidbit about 2A,

"...there is one singular problem with the Second Amendment: It is grammatically incorrect and, as a result, nonsensical.

...secretary of state under George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the best scribe among the Founding Fathers and possibly the best educated, was appalled at the grammar of the Second Amendment. He attempted to correct its grammatical mistakes—specifically, misplaced commas—but the text of the proposed amendment, along with the other nine amendments that would come to be known as the Bill of Rights, had already been sent out to the states for ratification, so it was too late."

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/most-consequential-comma/426894/

Bentleyspop

It's too bad that this had to be made....

https://youtu.be/b5ykNZl9mTQ

josevolution

mcgruff10 said:

U.S.

Poll: Majority Backs Banning Assault-Style Rifles, Opposes Federal Gun-Confiscation Program

A majority of Americans supports banning the future sale of assault-style rifles but is against a federal gun-confiscation program that would force current owners to forfeit such weapons, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

About 56 percent of respondents in the Monmouth poll supported banning assault-style weapons, while 38 percent opposed it. Only 43 percent of respondents supported a “mandatory buyback program,” in which the federal government would confiscate such weapons from current owners, while 53 percent of respondents opposed such a program.

“An assault weapons sales ban has majority support but there are deep pockets of opposition among gun-owning Americans,” said poll director Patrick Murray. “There is even greater opposition to programs that would try to take these weapons out of the hands of people who already own them.”

Other gun-control measures tested in the poll garnered more significant bipartisan support. 83 percent of those polled said they support comprehensive background checks for gun purchases. About 75 percent of respondents, including 59 percent of those who are NRA members, said they support “red-flag laws,” which allow those close to an individual, such as family members, to petition a court to temporarily restrict the individual’s access to firearms if they believe the he poses a threat of violence. 62 percent also said they support establishing a national gun registry, a database of all guns in the U.S.

The poll of 800 American adults was conducted by telephone between August 16 and August 20, several weeks after a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas Walmart, killing 22, and another shooter opened fire a day later in Dayton, Ohio, killing 10

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-majority-backs-banning-assault-173456439.html

Yes ban those damn weapons and let the other s who already own them keep them but but when they go to purchase ammo for them they can only buy if they pass a background check ! No background check no ammo period ! 

CM189191

Conservative logic:

You'll never be able to confiscate all 10 million AR-15s!  It's impossible!

Also: Let's round up and deport all 10 million unauthorized immigrants living in the USA! 

Halifax2TheMax

Maybe in 200 years they’ll truly be rare.

https://apple.news/AtK9DLIGPSDWds6InjlepNw

Spiritual_Chaos

nvm. Don't want to risk anything.