The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[trish]

...I did not know that the law had passed here in Ohio to carry concealed weapons in bars. I'm speechless.

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.

[fivekatz]

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.

[robertlouis]

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.

[trish]

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.

[Stavros]

An OVEN??? On that basis she ought not to even have a gun! Where does she put her underwear, in the fridge?

[trish]

...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.

[fred41]

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.

I wouldn't have a problem with this.

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.

[trish]

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

[buttslinger]

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.

[martin48]

It's this easy ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21712820