The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[Prospero]

Thombgeron... I honestly don't know if this deserves dark laughter of the despairing kind or ... well

[thombergeron]

This thread was started when it really looked as if some form of sanity might prevail. We know better now.

It's just going to take a long time, Prospero. U.S. political institutions are incredibly inefficient and very bad at innovating, but there is significant momentum among the public. Yesterday's vote will make a difference in the 2014 midterms.

[robertlouis]

It's just going to take a long time, Prospero. U.S. political institutions are incredibly inefficient and very bad at innovating, but there is significant momentum among the public. Yesterday's vote will make a difference in the 2014 midterms.

I only hope you're right, but we all know that the GOP-NRA axis will come up with some major diversionary tactics to avoid any return to sanity. I despair, I really do.

[robertlouis]

Prick of the Week.

But not a million miles from some of the posters hereabouts in his thinking.

http://http://www.rawstory.com/rs/20...an-go-to-hell/

[yodajazz]

It's true that Ombama is a great gun salesman, but it's not because of rhetoric nor political action. All through his first term there was absolutely no move toward any sort of tighter regulations on guns. Even after Gifords was shot, there was no move toward making tougher gun laws. Yet during this same period ALEC was writing boiler plate concealed carry laws and stand your ground laws and racing them through conservative State legislatures. The Obama administration was silent on gun laws even when Travon Martin was slaughtered in the cleanly swept streets of a gated Florida community. Yet all through his first term gun sales were through the roof and dealers couldn't keep ammunition on the shelves. Gee, funny how paranoid certain stupid assholes can be when a black man wins the White House.

Tis was emailed to me...

http://www.nationalmemo.com/is-this-...uve-ever-seen/

Great posts! More Federal Licensed gun dealers, than Post Offices, McDonalds, and Starbucks combined! Wow.

[Ben]

Gun Reform Fails:

[Prospero]

Just now ...
Five Killed In Washington State Shooting
Five people have been killed in a shooting at an apartment complex south of Seattle, including a suspect who was shot by officers.
Police say officers responded to a 9:30pm emergency call at an apartment complex in Federal Way of shots being fired.
In addition to the possible suspect, the victims also include three other men and one woman.
There was no immediate word what set off the gunfire.


Just another quiet day in gun-toting America. Hey ho...

[Prospero]

Some interesting comments/reflections in the UK Press.

The Guardian and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe in yesterday's Sunday Times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...on-hard-tackle

[trish]

Between April 18 and the 21st:

At a Minnesota gun show a handgun accidentally discharges as the experienced vendor demonstrates how to field strip the weapon.

An experienced Ohio police chief accidentally shoots himself holstering his gun.

A fourteen year old shoots himself in the hand with a ill-gotten weapon.

A rural Indiana man accidentally shot himself in the head and died.

A three year old boy fired his father’s 9mm handgun inside their apartment.

Experienced Texas policeman accidentally shot a man in the hand.

Sixteen year old boy was accidentally shot in the leg on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Oregon man dies of an accidentally self-inflicted handgun wound.

Georgia man accidentally shot himself in the leg with a .22 revolver.

An Indiana woman accidentally fires a rifle into the apartment below her through the ceiling in an attempt to “twirl” the gun “Rifleman style.”

Texas man accidentally shot himself in the head. He survived. Wasn’t using his brain anyway, didn’t need it.

Concealed handgun owners while taking a class at a shooting range shot a fisherman in a nearby pond.

North Carolina man accidentally shot himself in the thigh.

New Yorker shot his hand.

Four year boy died of a gunshot wound inside his house in Oregon.

http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/


When will Americans realize that a gun in the home increases your chances of dying of a gunshot wound threefold.

[trish]

From April 28 to 29

Experience Pennsylvania policeman accidentally shoots himself in the leg.

A man in Kansas accidentally shot himself.

Twenty year old Foridian accidentally shoots and kills nineteen year old friend. He was “showing off” his gun.

A fifty-four year old Illinois man shoots himself in the stomach.

Pennsylvania woman was accidentally shot in the stomach at the Erie Biker Ball.

In Virgina a gun is accidentally discharged in a car and wounds two people.

Forty-two year old Pennsylanian accidentally shoots and kills her husband while he was instructing her on the proper use of firearms.

Fifteen year old Texan accidentally shoots his brother in the head while the two were playing with a gun they found.

Six year old Florida girl shoots herself playing with a handgun. She and another small child were playing with a gun.

Georgia policeman shoots himself during a remedial training course.

Sixty-four year old Pennsylvania man was shooting at a “threatening” dog. The bullet passed through the dog and wounded the dog’s owner.

A Washington man accidentally shot himself with a newly purchased gun while driving. He just couldn’t wait to fondle his new penis.

Louisiana man is shot while attempting to fix a jammed weapon.

Wisconsin policeman shot himself in the leg holstering his gun while off-duty.


http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/


Background checks are necessary to prevent truly unstable people from easily obtaining firearms. But we also need laws that hold owners responsible for negligence that results in injury or death. It’s negligence on the owner’s part if a child is found playing with a gun. It’s negligence if your gun accidentally discharges in a home, a car, a bar or anywhere else. Even people who say they’re experienced and say they’re always careful have accidents. A gun is not a penis. You don’t need to get is out and show it off to your friends. You don’t need to play with it or stroke it ‘til is discharges. Keep it in your pants. Better yet, leave at the store. Unless you’re a hunter or a sport shooter you’re never going to need it. Rather than ever being used in the act of protection, a gun in the home is more likely to be involved in an accident or a suicide of a family member.