RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
May 6, 2014 at 12:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 12:52 am by Minimalist.)
I apparently owe someone a reply but first - let's have this week's dose of mayhem thanks to our allegedly responsible gun owners.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/30...tail=email
Yeah, sarge... when a 4 year old picks up a loaded weapon the observation that ' safe weapons handling practices were not followed' is a pretty easy guess!
Oh, Brakeman's thing? Yeah, sorry. I replied to Chas and never got to it.
Again, its a nice anecdote which keeps the gun nuts wetting their pants and completely ignores the reality of what the plethora of guns in this country really means. For every armed citizen who gets to indulge his Rambo-fantasy there are thousands of family members/acquaintances/innocent bystanders who face the fusillade of shots fired by themselves or others.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/06-3
Almost a million casualties from the deliberate or accidental use of guns in an 9 year period and you guys are apparently fine with it. A cost of doing business, I guess?
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that we are not as "developed" a country as we like to think.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/30...tail=email
Quote:DES MOINES, IA, 4/21/14: A 4-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday in what Des Moines police said was an accidental shooting in her family's home. Police say it appears the girl somehow got ahold of a loaded weapon and shot herself. The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. at an apartment at 2746 Fleur Dr. The girl's mother, father and two younger children were home at the time of the shooting, police said. The girl died at Blank Children's Hospital. Des Moines police Sergeant Jason Halifax said, "Initial appearances are that the safe weapons handling practices were not followed. Right now that's just kind of the outward appearance
Yeah, sarge... when a 4 year old picks up a loaded weapon the observation that ' safe weapons handling practices were not followed' is a pretty easy guess!
Oh, Brakeman's thing? Yeah, sorry. I replied to Chas and never got to it.
Again, its a nice anecdote which keeps the gun nuts wetting their pants and completely ignores the reality of what the plethora of guns in this country really means. For every armed citizen who gets to indulge his Rambo-fantasy there are thousands of family members/acquaintances/innocent bystanders who face the fusillade of shots fired by themselves or others.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/06-3
Quote:the total number of people shot in the United States each year has risen significantly from the beginning of the new century to 2008, the latest year for which complete federal data is available. Between 2000 and 2008, a total of 272,590 people died of gunshot injuries in the United States--an average of 30,288 gun deaths per year, a number shocking by comparison to any other developed country. During that same time period, an estimated 617,488 people suffered nonfatal gunshot injuries in the United States. The total number of people shot in 2008 totaled 110,215--the highest total recorded during the nine-year period surveyed in the analysis.
Almost a million casualties from the deliberate or accidental use of guns in an 9 year period and you guys are apparently fine with it. A cost of doing business, I guess?
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that we are not as "developed" a country as we like to think.
