Gun laws in USA??

[stui magpie]

[Wokko]

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

[Skids]

[David]

[Skids]

Interesting...

Chicago’s problem isn’t guns; it’s gangs. Gun control efforts in Chicago or any other major city are doomed because gangs represent organized crime networks which stretch down to Mexico. And Democrats pander to those gangs because it helps them get elected. That's why Federal gun prosecutions in Chicago dropped sharply under Obama. It's why he has set free drug dealers and gang members to deal and kill while convening town halls on gun violence.

America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom the media profiles after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in urban areas controlled by Democrats. The gangs who drive up America’s murder rate look nothing like the occasional mentally ill suburban white kid who goes off his medication and decides to shoot up a school. Lanza, like most serial killers, is a media aberration, not the norm.

National murder statistics show that blacks are far more likely to be killers than whites and they are also far more likely to be killed. The single largest cause of homicides is the argument. 4th on the list is juvenile gang activity with 676 murders, which combined with various flavors of gangland killings takes us nearly to the 1,000 mark. America has more gangland murders than Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Puerto Rico have murders. -

See more at: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/#sthash.Lo6w22cB.dpuf

[David]

^ Again with the stupid binaries — "the problem isn't guns; it's gangs". The problem is gangs, and the problem is $£$%^%%$ gangs having easy access to $£$%^%%$ guns (and everybody else, too). It's not rocket science.

As for their ethnic background, it goes without saying that violence often accompanies poverty and disadvantage. Democrats are the ones who are actively trying to confront those issues, not the Republicans (of which this blogger is undoubtedly one). His philosophy, on the other hand, seems to be lock 'em all up and give the rest of them guns to play with. It's worked so well up until now, so why not?

[Wokko]

Yep, the Democrats are sure confronting those issues in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and DC.

[David]

Who else do you see trying to raise the minimum wage, increase funding and access to social services, etc.? I'm not saying you have to agree with the Democrats ideologically, but if you want to reduce poverty (and the gun crime that accompanies it) I don't see why you'd vote for anyone else.

What's the Republican plan for decreasing gun violence, again? Do they have one?

[HAL]

I don't have to do whatever you say. I have my own free will.

[Wokko]

Large image but worth the look. If mods want to turn it into a link instead of an img then feel free (or tell me to do it)

[stui magpie]

Interesting stats.

I've got one of these hanging on each side of the bed. Burglars beware.

[Skids]

I need a like button for Wokkos post!

Makes sense, a drug fuelled home invader is gunna think twice if old Mrs Jones might have a pistol to sort him out, now he knows shes got nothing to protect herself. Or hopefully he doesn't and gets a bit of lead in his arse!

[Mugwump]

^ http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checking-ben-swann-is-the-uk-really-5-times-more-violent-than-the-us/

If you cannot trust someone to represent very basic comparative statistics carefully and properly, it is hard to tale the rest of his argument seriously....

And I agree fully, David. Psychos who might shoot up schools are a problem. Psychos who might shoot up schools and who have a high-powered gun handy in the house ... they are a really, really big problem.

[David]

Thanks for posting that, Mugwump. Good to see even people on the 'gun rights' side like that guy calling out bullshit from his fellow travellers.

[Wokko]

So because ONE statistic, shown in the picture as being sourced from the Daily Telegraph was found to be incorrect it invalidates the rest of the sourced information? What piffle.


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