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There are at least twenty men on HA who dream of that possibility, you know. :praying::praying::praying:Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
At least 21.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
The joys and rewards of guns never cease: Texas school official shot during firearm training.
Oh the inanity!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ining/1953273/
Yep. Remember the twat from the NRA who suggested in the wake of Newtown that schools would be safer if there were armed guards in every one?Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
Talk about shooting yourself in the...... oh, never mind. :banana:
The Blackboard Jungle?
http://www.wlns.com/story/21445345/4...ental-shooting
Another child dead because of firearm abuse.
No doubt the NRA's response would be to put more guns in every home and start gun awareness in parallel with potty training. Fucking crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
No, not the presence of a gun at fault but that the parent should have locked it away (or the child - I prefer this option:)) - you know the arguments that are used.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
On February 27, in a Walmart parking lot, a man pulled his concealed weapon and fired on a shoplifter who was running to his own car to escape security. The bullets ricocheted and damaged nearby vehicles. The shoplifter got away. The assailant was upset to find himself being arrested. He claimed he was fearful for his life. He was rather hoping he’d be held up as a magnificient example of a good guy with a gun stopping crime.
Just this week, when a Walmart manager refused to recognize a customer’s print out of a one dollar coupon as valid, the customer pulled out her Smith and Wesson .38 Special, waved it the employees and threaten them. When police caught up with her in the parking lot, she refused to surrender her weapon, saying she had a legal permit to for concealed carry and no one was going to take her gun. The nutcase was summarily tazed into submission.
We can go on forever with stories like this. Or maybe we can’t.
http://walmartshootings.blogspot.com/
It would be good if these were stories from "the bad old days" told around a fire in good company. instead of horror stories from the front line of daily life.
A police officer assigned to a school in Highland NY (you know, we need a good guy with a gun in every school these days) accidentally discharged his weapon and shot a locker.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...hoots/1966639/
We, the People, are the Law here. The Police don't actually stop crime, they mop up the mess after the crimes are committed. Part of being a vibrant nation is blundering forward and letting the chips fall where they may. You won't see that written in the Constitution, but it's true. Tightening up the gun laws is common sense, but you can't proscecute people for being poor, or desperate, or crazy.
Sadly, that seems exactly what the coalition government in the UK seems dead set on as consistent policy these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
This is why I don't own or carry a gun. The possibility of being robbed, is very remote. But the possibility of becoming angry is not. Am I am generally a very easy going person. Like last week a woman refused to validate my parking, because the ticket was the wrong color. It would have cost her a thing. All she had to do was to stamp it, and let me worry about the parking garage people. Now, if I was strapped... So actually I wasn't, and I gave it to someone else who took care of it. I had to wait a few minutes for it to be taken care of. And then the parking attendant was still going to charge me, because she didn't look to see that the ticket was stamped on the back. Now, if I was strapped...Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
On January 8th this year, a man with a license to carry a concealed weapon sat across from his wife at a restaurant in Lenexa, Kansas and accidentally shot his wife in the knee.
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/08...-shooting.html
The only thing that can neutralize a stupid man with a gun is strict gun regulation. Some guns shouldn't be available to the general public, some people shouldn't be allowed to carry and no one (short of the police and the military) should have a license to carry secretly.
Well that Lenexa woman should have had her own concealed gun. Now she's forced back to the sexually segregated bad old days, where she'll have to kill this guy in his sleep! Wake up, sheeple!!
THEY'RE
COMING
TO TAKE
YOUR
GUUUUNS!!!!!
Just walk out to the middle of the street, & start shooting in all directions. You're bound to get a few bad guys before the police politely ask you to surrender your weapons.
The question is whether or not he was under the influence of alcohol, at the time of the incident. That would make his act carry a penalty. Looking at that article made me do some research. Until this I did not know that the law had passed here in Ohio to carry concealed weapons in bars. I'm speechless.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
I think everybody understands the world would be better off with NO guns at all, but they've got these guys called LAWYERS, and for a fee, they'll argue that guys died at Valley Forge for the freedom to bear arms, and guys used guns to help defeat slavery at Gettysburg, and guys shot nazis because that was the only way to stop them from taking over the world.
60 percent of gun deaths are suicides. What is WRONG with those people???!!!!!
Depression (just the ordinary everyday variety that sometimes worries a teenager for any number of reasons, lost love, bullying, bad grades, etc. etc.), anxiety, emotional panic + easily available, easy to use, quick and sure weapon in the home = increased likelihood of suicide.
Concealed-carry and stand-your-ground laws have swept the country in a very short span of time. The boiler plate for these laws was written and pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) then taken up by conservative state legislators and forced through their respective states. ALEC is a comfy club of corporate interests, conservative think tanks and legislators who get together to caucus in expensive hotels and write boiler plate laws that protect and advantage their business interests and that implement free-market, no-government, anti-tax, anti-entitlement ideologies.Quote:
...I did not know that the law had passed here in Ohio to carry concealed weapons in bars. I'm speechless.
It is an interesting time in the US. Colorado is working as I type on a series of laws that would bring some common sense to gun policy in the gun happy Rocky Mountain State.
Personally, while I fear there will be more mass shootings and the daily death and injury toll from our overly loose gun safety regulations in the US, in the long run I think Newtown will be a watershed moment. It was the moment that gun manufacturers became the 21st version of Big Tobacco.
....and the NRA has become the 51st state.Quote:
Originally Posted by fivekatz
A woman in St. Petersburg, Fl. was making frozen waffles in her oven when she the .38 caliber glock ammunition that her friend was storing in the oven exploded. She took some shrapnel in the leg but survived the incident.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2736040.html
It's not enough to keep guns and ammunition out of the hands of the mentally ill. Every one wishing to purchase a gun should be required to score above average on the Stanford-Bennett intelligence test or prove otherwise that they are not lethally stupid.
An OVEN??? On that basis she ought not to even have a gun! Where does she put her underwear, in the fridge?
In the dog days of Summer? Well, yeah. In the freezer section, between the rocky road ice cream and the frozen waffles. Bon appetite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
:) I wouldn't have a problem with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
Usually this would just be another way that evolution weeds out the stupid...but when the actions of the stupid endanger more than just their own life span on this planet, well then we often have to enact a few additional laws.
When is comes to guns in the U.S., stories of stupidity, craziness and abuse abound. There's a new story everyday that lends evidence that the very presence of guns endangers those in proximity.
Yet, gun ownership in the U.S. is on the decline. From roughly half of all households in 1970 to roughly one third of all households in the present day. Fewer people own guns. Yet gun sales in the U.S. as on the rise. That's because frightened, unpatriotic gun "enthusiasts," fearful of losing their capacity to revolt against the nation they pretend to love, the are stockpiling weapons and ammunition. Manufacturers are happy to put more and more guns into the hands of lethally stupid nuts and more and more dollars into their own pockets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us...?smid=pl-share
Majority rules, so how come 5% of the US owns half of everything? Why do the 5% own the Art, the real estate, the power, the influence, while the 95% own the 5 dollar gas, the 5 dollar K-mart shoes, and all the chicken-wings, doritos, and 2-litre pepsi-colas?
Because the Republican Party scoops up all those DUMMY votes. Offering Americans God, Guts, and Guns is real economical. If Obama is going to sew up the House in 2014, he's going to have to woo that ATF crowd- beer, cigarettes, and guns......American as Apple-Pie.
The Republicans are on the ropes right now, for the first time since Truman, the Democrats are seen as the stronger party on National Defense. Newtown is going to be the side door to stop gun trafficing. Time to make Dems the Law & Order party. And get everybody to sign on.
It's this easy ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21712820
Two policeman injured by a man using an assault rifle, Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...ers_shoot.html
Hmmm. For a thread entitled "The FAST approaching gun ban", some four months on there doesn't seem to be much in the way of positive progress.
Are the gun lobby's tactics working or is Obama playing a long game?
I think Obama believes everything you've said....guns lying around can simplify tragedy, I've seen it in my personal life.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
But there's problems in finger pointing, when you personalize the simple minded, hair trigger yahoo accidentally blowing a hole in your car radio, you're giving the opposition ammo, I believe. Because they'll say "What about abortion? Having it so easily available promotes a generation of kids to gang bang away behind the high school bleachers, and if some simple minded daughter gets knocked up, oh well, she'll just throw that little pink thing in the trash and be back fornicating and taking drugs by tonight"
How can you stick your nose in somebody's business about a gun that may or may not hurt somebody, and then defend the right of a woman to murder her baby?
I guarantee you Obama's been playing an eight year game since day one, and guns and abortion are quick sand bogs he'd rather avoid. -
God bless America...
Chicks who Love GUNS - YouTube
I can't stand it. That video is sooo depressing. Let these silly chumps be parachuted into Syria in their Bikinis with their wonderful guns. My god.
Bikinis are okay, as long as they cover their hair.
Phallic metaphor unbound. (You gotta pity the dickless wonders who need these props to their manhood).
Prop propQuote:
Originally Posted by trish
jizz jizz
oh what a shot it is...
This happened here Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
CLEVELAND - A 12-year-old girl called 911 after being shot by her father early Monday morning.
Officers were called to a house on 104th Street near Madison Avenue just before 4 a.m.
The girl's mother, who was waiting outside, told police “my daughter is shot in there and she can't move.
Cleveland police said the father, Robert Arnold, shot himself in the head. His body was found in a second-floor bedroom and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said Arnold used a .380 Colt semi-automatic pistol. Three shell casings were recovered, along with three live rounds on the ground, the police report said.
The mother said her daughter spent the night at her dad's house, but it sounded like the two had a disagreement.
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