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   ConserveGov said, 4 months ago

   A criminal’s paradise.
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   Urban Space Cowboy said, 4 months ago

   If you leave animals alone, they’ll leave you alone. A Good Cartoon.
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   Robert Landers said, 4 months ago

   @ConserveGov

   Then why do the European countries that have far less guns also have far less crime?

   I will however admit that it might just be too late for the US, as we already have at least one gun for every American, and that includes our considerable criminal element. And I sadly have to admit that it might just no longer even be possible to even start to head in any other direction!!

   If you have any practical non ultra conservative answers, I for one, would be glad to hear them.

   One such thing that I would like to see is a total and enforced ban or military style high capacity semi automatic assault guns. And if the criminal element has and uses such weaponry then that is why we should have more police trained tactical assault teams with those very weapons, to say nothing of the ultimate back up to them in the US military itself.

   Doing this in no way infringes upon the honest citizens ability to own normal hand guns, rifles and shot guns. A right in itself that most reasonable Americans still fully support!
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   Robert Landers said, 4 months ago

   @Robert Landers

   PS: I have posted this before where I also state that I am perfectly happy with certain gun clubs and ranges having such weaponry available for those people that have to just go out and shoot them. But those places should be very highly controlled so such weaponry does not get our to the criminal elements or even the mentally deranged.

   Heck, I would even be happy to see the NRA actually do something useful in teaching gun safety and monitoring such places for compliance with the kinds of strict methods to prevent these weapons from falling into the wrong hands!

   Such places could even be set up to allow those with a real itch for such activities to blow away old steel barrels, old cars, and other such objects with fully automatic weapons, as long as it was done safely and the weaponry monitored to keep it out of the hands of the wrong people!
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   narrowminded said, 4 months ago

   Chicago. Regulation and laws don’t work.
   Please stop comparing America to other countries. We are unique.
   Abortion kills hundreds of thousands, people kill hundreds with guns. That’s the irony, progressives actually promote the killing of children yet say they want to protect us all from the evil of inanimate objects.
   The inconsistencies of liberalism.
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   wmconelly said, 4 months ago

   If yer 6 years old is sucking a thumb worse than sucking a 45 magnum?
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   Robert Landers said, 4 months ago

   @narrowminded

   In the first place states are the source of funding for abortions as the federal government is forbidden to do so except in the case of the direct health of the potential mother, rape, or incest, by the Hyde Amendment (look it up).

   And many states forbid the procedure in the third trimester of pregnancy (after 6 months of pregnancy). And before that the fetus is not even considered viable outside of the womb of the mother, and so is not even a baby, let alone a child.

   So it is either at best a misunderstanding that children themselves are being aborted, or an out and out lie. If all such abortion procedures are outlawed are you and all the other “narrowminded” ultra conservatives on here going to happily see an increase of enormous proportions (with a consequent increase in taxes) in welfare to make sure that all of those “children” are not then raised in misery and abject poverty as most of the potential mothers are relatively poor and usually on their own (the childcare costs while the mother works would be staggering alone)?

   If so, then you are indeed an unusual ultra conservative, and a good Christian example of a true compassionate conservative. If you are indeed that honest, then I salute you!!
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   olfart said, 4 months ago

   @ narrowminded
   Got any more of those apples and oranges? Oh, and we are no more unique than any other country (Greece comes to mind, since you so often compare us to Greece).
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   olfart said, 4 months ago

   @ Robert Landers
   We don’t really need to ban military style weapons. Just ban (and confiscate) the high capacity magazines for them. If the demand is there, the free market will sell four round magazines. You can still indulge your Rambo fantasy, but every four shots you have to pause to allow your victims to shoot back.
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    pavlov said, 4 months ago

    We as a country have the highest death by car ratio in the world and their the No.1 killer of children so why don’t we require background checks for car purchases or a permit to purchase (you don’t even need a license to buy one nor is their an age limit), put governors on the engines and restrict the size of the vehicles and out law the loaning of a car to another person.
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    pavlov said, 4 months ago

    I would also point out that according to the FBI more people are killed with hammers and clubs than rifles or shotguns and we aren’t even talking about banning those implements of destruction.
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    dannysixpack said, 4 months ago

    @narrowminded
    
    safe legal abortion SAVES lives.
    
    most people, the constitution and the bible do not consider sperm, eggs, zygotes, embryo’s and fetuses to be “people”.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    @Robert Landers

    I’ve just learned that Washington, D.C.‘s petition for a rehearing of the Parker case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was denied today. This is good news. Readers will recall in this case that the D.C. Circuit overturned the decades-long ban on gun ownership in the nation’s capitol on Second Amendment grounds.
    However, as my colleague Peter Ferrara explained in his National Review Online article following the initial decision in March, it looks very likely that the United States Supreme Court will take the case on appeal. When it does so – beyond seriously considering the clear original intent of the Second Amendment to protect an individual’s right to armed self-defense – the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court would be wise to take into account the findings of a recent study out of Harvard.
    The study, which just appeared in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694), set out to answer the question in its title: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence.” Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the sniffs of our more sophisticated and generally anti-gun counterparts across the pond, the answer is “no.” And not just no, as in there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime, but an emphatic no, showing a negative correlation: as gun ownership increases, murder and suicide decreases.
    The findings of two criminologists – Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser – in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates, are telling:
    Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).
    For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland’s murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of nations with high murder rates but few guns. As the study’s authors write in the report:
    If the mantra “more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death” were true, broad cross-national comparisons should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates. (p. 661)
    Finally, and as if to prove the bumper sticker correct – that “gun don’t kill people, people do” – the study also shows that Russia’s murder rate is four times higher than the U.S. and more than 20 times higher than Norway. This, in a country that practically eradicated private gun ownership over the course of decades of totalitarian rule and police state methods of suppression. Needless to say, very few Russian murders involve guns.
    The important thing to keep in mind is not the rate of deaths by gun – a statistic that anti-gun advocates are quick to recite – but the overall murder rate, regardless of means. The criminologists explain:
    [P]er capita murder overall is only half as frequent in the United States as in several other nations where gun murder is rarer, but murder by strangling, stabbing, or beating is much more frequent. (p. 663 – emphases in original)
    It is important to note here that Profs. Kates and Mauser are not pro-gun zealots. In fact, they go out of their way to stress that their study neither proves that gun control causes higher murder rates nor that increased gun ownership necessarily leads to lower murder rates. (Though, in my view, Prof. John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime does indeed prove the latter.) But what is clear, and what they do say, is that gun control is ineffectual at preventing murder, and apparently counterproductive.
    Not only is the D.C. gun ban ill-conceived on constitutional grounds, it fails to live up to its purpose. If the astronomical murder rate in the nation’s capitol, in comparison to cities where gun ownership is permitted, didn’t already make that fact clear, this study out of Harvard should.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    ^ Wow!!! Less guns means more murder by other means? Russia with no gun ownership the people find other ways to kill each other? DC gun ban creates the highest murder rate? Sure kills the ’but no guns means harmony and feeding rainbows to unicorns" libspeak.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

    Deer eat humans? Only in Lester’s world…
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