Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumUS gun lobby responsible for nation's gun violence
The NRA and its Congressional and Senatorial backers (mostly all) have fought to keep such weapons in the hands of, what they determine to be, law abiding citizens, said Myles Hoenig, who is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate.
They rely on their interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, which they believe guarantees such rights, Hoenig told Press TV on Sunday.
The US Constitution's Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms. Gun-rights groups, including the NRA, argue that restrictions on gun purchases would not improve public safety.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/05/08/464631/Myles-Hoenig-mass-shooting-NRA/
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)"Gunz" for the acts of criminals to blaming the NRA? Perhaps the grabbers' biggest fault is their willingness to excuse criminals for the crimes committed.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)if it wasn't for one of those "lawful" owners giving them one.
Straw Man
(6,771 posts)if it wasn't for one of those "lawful" owners giving them one.
What "lawful" gun owners are those? The ones who deal in illegal guns through straw purchases or the ones whose guns have been stolen from them?
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/100-shootings-and-counting-merrylands-tops-driveby-list-20120911-25psc.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/hitting-drive-by-shooting-record/story-e6frg6n6-1226622981309
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/06/16/australian-police-10-firearms-seized-homemade/
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=guns%20stolen%20from%20police
Oh, the Port Authur shooter's rifle was stolen from the Victoria State Police.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)I remember the Green Party convention in Austin back in 2000. It voted down a resolution for strong gun control. This "activist" must be an outlier, but any anti-gun rant will get some kind of airplay with the media.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)like the Libertarians, they have no grasp on reality. One gets their policy ideas from Ayn Rand and the other from hippie songs. Neither of them are based on facts and evidence.
There is no epidemic of "gun violence". There is an epidemic of heroin overdoses.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)Wut?
beevul
(12,194 posts)His opinion, which he does not go on to support factually.
Oh, we're listening to what the CDC says again? Great, lets start out by acknowledging that there are around double the defensive firearm uses as there are firearm fatalities, In America, according to the CDC:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172191826
Funny, those who are making the demands never seem to aim them at those who commit gun violence. In fact, just the opposite. They aim them at everyone that doesn't. They might actually have some credibility if they showed more genuine anger hatred and bitterness towards those pulling the triggers instead of the nra and/or gun rights supporters.
fear Fear FEAR!!
I'm calling bullshit on that one. When they say whatever it takes, they mean "whatever it takes to get at the guns", not whatever it takes to reduce gun violence", otherwise they'd be pouring enormous resources into suicide prevention and actual gun safety training, AND they'd be screaming it from the rooftops.
They aren't, and nobody is fooled.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)And your meme?
Total bullshit. It presumes there was a time when laws existed that would have stopped those 3 murderers.
There wasn't.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)It's sick, sad, and pathetic. But at the end of the day, gun control is pretty much limited to ineffectual screeds on the Internet.
I am an NRA member that proudly stands with the organization.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Too much hate and animosity to believe those candles and tears. It's not working, stone.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)he is running to unseat Cummings as a Green. The once ecology party is now full of antisemitic crackpots.
https://fleshisgrass.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/green-party-turned-goose-turd-by-israel-boycott-crackpots/
https://hoenig2016.com/