This has been my position since forever. I can’t think of a difference between guns and cars when it comes to liability and responsibility. If you’re afraid to license your weapon, or have it inspected, or take a test yourself, or carry insurance, then you shouldn’t own a gun. Either that or you’re hiding something…
Trump used fake bone spur to avoid facing weapons in Viet Nam but the NRA gave him and his GOP “cravenetts” Congress to support gun sales slaughtering children in schools across the U.S.A..
Experts explain why Trump and the NRA’s focus on ‘evil’ makes the mass shooting crisis worse
Speakers at the National Rifle Convention in Houston, Texas viewed the school shooting massacre in Uvalde through a counterproductive lens, according to experts on mass shootings.
“One by one, they then rejected any suggestion that gun control measures were needed to stop mass shootings. They blamed the atrocities on factors that had nothing to do with firearms — the breakdown of the American family, untreated mental illness, bullying on social media, violent video games and the inexplicable existence of ‘evil.’ Above all, they sought to divert pressure to support popular overhauls like expanded background checks by seizing on the issue of school safety, amid reports that the gunman in Uvalde gained easy access to Robb Elementary School through an unguarded door,” The New York Times reported Friday.
“Three years ago, Jillian Peterson, an associate professor of criminology at Hamline University, and James Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University, decided to take a different approach. In their view, the failure to gain a more meaningful and evidence-based understanding of why mass shooters do what they do seemed a lost opportunity to stop the next one from happening. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, their research constructed a database of every mass shooter since 1966 who shot and killed four or more people in a public place, and every shooting incident at schools, workplaces and places of worship since 1999,” Melanie Warner wrote for Politico.
“What this really problematic terminology does is prevent us from recognizing that mass shooters are us.”
Once again, pseudoliberal BS rules the roost. False Equivalency Fallacy hard at “work” here. You cannot compare a PRIVILEGE (driving an automobile on public roads) to a RIGHT (owning a gun).
The authors of the constitution had an eighteenth century frame of reference. Not one of them could have predicted cars or auto loading rifles. The constitution is a piece of paper. It’s been amended numerous times. We are due for some updates. Don’t write your congress twits. Vote them out.
People don’t have a Constitutional right to own and drive cars to meetings of well-regulated militias necessary for protecting frontier settlements from native peoples trying to defend themselves against white European invaders.
Referring to Martin Luther King and Jack & Bobby Kennedy: “Not Dead. Their brains blown out. Because your people wouldn’t even put the same controls on their guns as they do on their dogs, their bicycles, their cats, or their own automobiles”…Billy Jack, 1971
Person was granted a full pardon by the governor or the President or granted full relief by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the 1968 Federal Gun Control Act (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 527.040).
After 10 years has elapsed since the person was restored to civil rights and during that time the person was not convicted of any other crime of violence (Minn. Stat. § 609.165 subd. 1a).
South Dakota
After 15 years has elapsed since the person was last discharged from prison, jail, probation, or parole (S.D. Codified Laws § 22-14-15).
Wyoming
The person has been pardoned (Wyo. Stat. § 6-8-102).
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This has been my position since forever. I can’t think of a difference between guns and cars when it comes to liability and responsibility. If you’re afraid to license your weapon, or have it inspected, or take a test yourself, or carry insurance, then you shouldn’t own a gun. Either that or you’re hiding something…
banjoAhhh! almost 2 years ago
There have been laws passed to protect gun companies from any liability for their actions, unlike every other corporate business.
The gun companies have also distorted the actual meaning of the 2nd amendment, in order to sell guns. I call it the NRA interpretation of the laws.
HT-Missouri Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Mental illness has been Abbot’s red herring argument forever.
monya_43 almost 2 years ago
Sure . . . Sell a lethal weapon to anyone over 18 without any oversight or regulations. What could go wrong? /s
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Ban assault rifles, not books.
Regulate firearms, not women’s bodies.
Protect kids, not lobbyists.
George Takei
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Cops are afraid of the AR-15, Republicans keep it legal, stop voting for them.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Republiguns won’t give teachers supplies but they expect teachers to wear a gun.
Condoreggs Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Trump used fake bone spur to avoid facing weapons in Viet Nam but the NRA gave him and his GOP “cravenetts” Congress to support gun sales slaughtering children in schools across the U.S.A..
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
They should have school classes at the NRA convention, there won’t be any guns there.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Vote Blue in 22
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Senate GOP Blocks Domestic Terrorism Bill, Gun Policy Debate
Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the Senate.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-blocks-domestic-terrorism-bill-gun-policy_n_628facf1e4b0933e73708b88?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Email%205-27-22&utm_term=us-morning-email&fbclid=IwAR0xIgewtLcKRQ6IJ7ysWba6wb1yVNhDgVNLs1de8Vidma2I4sC9GmABH4I
Anti democracy, dictator loving republicans continue to divide and destroy the USA.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Experts explain why Trump and the NRA’s focus on ‘evil’ makes the mass shooting crisis worse
Speakers at the National Rifle Convention in Houston, Texas viewed the school shooting massacre in Uvalde through a counterproductive lens, according to experts on mass shootings.
“One by one, they then rejected any suggestion that gun control measures were needed to stop mass shootings. They blamed the atrocities on factors that had nothing to do with firearms — the breakdown of the American family, untreated mental illness, bullying on social media, violent video games and the inexplicable existence of ‘evil.’ Above all, they sought to divert pressure to support popular overhauls like expanded background checks by seizing on the issue of school safety, amid reports that the gunman in Uvalde gained easy access to Robb Elementary School through an unguarded door,” The New York Times reported Friday.
“Three years ago, Jillian Peterson, an associate professor of criminology at Hamline University, and James Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University, decided to take a different approach. In their view, the failure to gain a more meaningful and evidence-based understanding of why mass shooters do what they do seemed a lost opportunity to stop the next one from happening. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, their research constructed a database of every mass shooter since 1966 who shot and killed four or more people in a public place, and every shooting incident at schools, workplaces and places of worship since 1999,” Melanie Warner wrote for Politico.
“What this really problematic terminology does is prevent us from recognizing that mass shooters are us.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nra-evil/
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Ron Johnson Literally Blames Uvalde Shooting on ‘CRT’ and ‘Wokeness’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ron-johnson-literally-blames-uvalde-shooting-on-crt-and-wokeness/ar-AAXOaSU?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=042c588a6b53437cb43674bd2ffa9b2c
Republicans are mentally ill and totally out of touch with reality.
KenseidenXL almost 2 years ago
Once again, pseudoliberal BS rules the roost. False Equivalency Fallacy hard at “work” here. You cannot compare a PRIVILEGE (driving an automobile on public roads) to a RIGHT (owning a gun).
oldchas almost 2 years ago
The authors of the constitution had an eighteenth century frame of reference. Not one of them could have predicted cars or auto loading rifles. The constitution is a piece of paper. It’s been amended numerous times. We are due for some updates. Don’t write your congress twits. Vote them out.
The Nodding Head almost 2 years ago
People don’t have a Constitutional right to own and drive cars to meetings of well-regulated militias necessary for protecting frontier settlements from native peoples trying to defend themselves against white European invaders.
babka Premium Member almost 2 years ago
mental health of the young incel formerly-bullied white male.
smartgrr almost 2 years ago
Nailed it
FGWaiss almost 2 years ago
Referring to Martin Luther King and Jack & Bobby Kennedy: “Not Dead. Their brains blown out. Because your people wouldn’t even put the same controls on their guns as they do on their dogs, their bicycles, their cats, or their own automobiles”…Billy Jack, 1971
sandflea almost 2 years ago
18 year olds can’t buy liquor or cigarettes legally but they can buy a weapon of mass destruction. Is this a great country or what.
nyg16 almost 2 years ago
the real mental health issue is that people that in act these laws, I mean you mr Abbott !
AtomicForce91 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Except for the FBI background check…Convicted felons cannot get a gun…
Frankfreak almost 2 years ago
STATE
CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH GUNS
MAY BE POSSESSED BY A CONVICTED FELON
Kentucky
Person was granted a full pardon by the governor or the President or granted full relief by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the 1968 Federal Gun Control Act (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 527.040).
Louisiana
After 10 years from the date of completion of sentence, probation, parole, or suspension of sentence (La. Rev. Stat. § 14:95.1 ©(1)).
Minnesota
After 10 years has elapsed since the person was restored to civil rights and during that time the person was not convicted of any other crime of violence (Minn. Stat. § 609.165 subd. 1a).
South Dakota
After 15 years has elapsed since the person was last discharged from prison, jail, probation, or parole (S.D. Codified Laws § 22-14-15).
Wyoming
The person has been pardoned (Wyo. Stat. § 6-8-102).
Woodstock Generation Premium Member almost 2 years ago
It is a mental health problem, that of the legislators and the people who vote for them.
darthnul almost 2 years ago
In Minnesota you have to be 21 and have a permit to purchase before you can but one from a licensed gun dealer.
tee929 almost 2 years ago
lobby, lobby, lobby=MONEY, MONEY, MONEY