Clay Jones for April 30, 2014

…because you don’t say ‘please’, ‘excuse me’ or ‘thank you’.

Because the bad guys are moving to places where folks cannot shoot back. Crime rates drop in areas where concealed weapons are allowed.

I know this old lady is being more careful from accidentally bumping shopping carts at the market. You never know when that one misstep will be your last.

We’ve become “too civilized” to properly punish people for criminal acts, so the fear of punishment is no longer a deterrent to crime. Combine that with the dumbing down of the educational system, generating generations of dumb ass teens and young adults not taught to think for themselves and you have a disaster. More guns isn’t the answer, a return to a justice system that works is.

I guess gun advocates somehow think the very high gun death rate in our country is justice. We have a broken mental health system that allows emotionally disturbed people to get those guns and blow people away. Many of the gang guns in Chicago are straw purchases made at Indiana gun shows. All makes perfect sense.

Or drunken people. The only times I’ve had a gun pointed at me were by drunks. Both times at braais (bbqs).

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I don’t think they’re fins, I’d say they are complete bullets, with their shell casings.This still supports your theory that the cartoonist may be ignorant about the physical aspects of guns, bullets and spent bullets.The bullet-head is shot out the barrel, the spent shell casing retained within the gun or expelled in the near vicinity of the gun.

I’ll just not support your comment that he’s “stupid”; ignorant yes, on matters of spent bullets, but not ignorant in matters of logic and certainly not stupid.

I’ll reserve “stupid” for ….others. :-|

I lived in a society far more violent than your own. What your society is becoming is like the one I left, without the excuse that high national levels of poverty everywhere is its root cause.

I didn’t live in a politer society, I lived in one where those who were not ‘decent’ gun ‘owners’ take out the ‘decent’ gun owner pre-emptively to avoid the polite conversation altogether. Call them surprise chats.The ‘indecent’ gun ‘owner’ usually came into possession of the gun from the proliferation of guns amongst ‘decent’ gun owners.When I had guns shoved under my nose, it was not from polite ‘decent’ gun owners but drunken gun owners.But violent crime has been steadily dropping over the past 20 years as education rates improve, poverty rates decline…but still incredibly high compared internationally.

Joadtom said: “We are at historic lows for violent crime, but don’t let the facts get in the way.”Back to your country: Nationally, perhaps, but I think someone showed you a link elsewhere you decided to ignore. The US states with the highest violent crime and deaths from guns are usually those with the lowest education rates and highest level of poverty (like some inner-city areas within some of your larger cities).The decline is likely to do with factors like better social community programmes, better and smarter policing, better education, not higher gun ownership.But don’t let other factors get in the way of your narrative.

It still has to explain the unusual high number of mass shootings though; a cultural thing? Europeans have a colourful national dress and a funny hoppy dance, the US has mall shootings?

As I said, and martens: “But don’t let other factors get in the way of your narrative.”

I also first thought they looked more like missiles, not bullets, and it made me think of the right-wing chickenhawks screaming at Obama to follow their leader’s brilliance, and start another war. Maybe this time start a war with someone who can actually shoot back?

I followed your link, Condor, and it had another embedded: Child Accused of Fatally Shooting BrotherThat was a 9 nine year shooting dead his 4 year old brother:""As we looked at the evidence we truly believed that it was no longer just an accident."

No, Marytens most gun deaths are from CRIMINALS killing people. Not normal people losing their temper of being afraid or frustrated. It is from BAD PEOPLE who do BAD THINGS, and they are less likely to do so if they think that their intended victim might be able to defend themselves.

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In the vast majority of gun homicides, the victim KNEW their assailant, often a spouse of family member, other times someone they “offended”. Stranger on stranger homicides, are a small minority.

Not to let facts get in the way of a liberal’s blind rant, but: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/