All Hail the Second Amendment

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Get your eyes checked, asshole.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/mistake...shot-dead/

Happened to me once back in the 70s.

I was on a mini-bike and hunter didn't properly lead for my speed otherwise it would have been a game over for your vorlon, 45 years ago. They see motion, they shoot.  Find out what it is later.

I did that on sentry duty, "fire three times and yell HALT!" 

[Minimalist]

Get your eyes checked, asshole.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/mistake...shot-dead/

Happened to me once back in the 70s.

I was on a mini-bike and hunter didn't properly lead for my speed otherwise it would have been a game over for your vorlon, 45 years ago. They see motion, they shoot.  Find out what it is later.

There was a great Doonesbury cartoon about that.  I wonder if I can find it?

[Minimalist]

Oh come on, now!

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pick...-1.3656883

Pickup truck shot by hunter who thought it was a deer in western N.Y.

You can't tell the fucking difference and you are allowed to wander around with a loaded gun?

[Minimalist]

Oh my.  Whatever will the NRA have to say about this!  More "activist judges" shit, I imagine.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.3660117

Supreme Court rejects assault weapons, open-carry appeals

The justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the Maryland law that does not permit the sale of a range of semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines.

The justices also declined an appeal asserting a constitutional right to carry firearms openly in public.

Now if we could just get the cops disarmed we might make some progress in this fucking country.

[Minimalist]

Oh course he can't be a "terrorist."  He's white.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/new-mex...ed-by-fbi/

A gunman who killed two students at a New Mexico high school and then took his own life was a former student who was investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation last year after he asked online about buying weapons for a mass shooting, officials said on Friday.

[Whateverist]

Oh course he can't be a "terrorist."  He's white.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/new-mex...ed-by-fbi/

A gunman who killed two students at a New Mexico high school and then took his own life was a former student who was investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation last year after he asked online about buying weapons for a mass shooting, officials said on Friday.

Unlike all those adolescent black boys with their toy guns.  Those guys are up to no good.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Accidental gun killings surged after Sandy Hook school shooting

A surge in gun buying in the months immediately following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, corresponded with an increase in accidental gun deaths in the United States, one-third of them in children, according to an analysis published today in Science.

About 60 additional unintended shooting deaths, roughly 20 of them in children, occurred in the 5 months after the shooting, conclude the study’s authors, economists Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight of Wellesley College in Massachusetts. For all of the 2012 calendar year, there were 545 accidental shooting deaths, or about 45 per month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So a 60-death bump in a 5-month period is a considerable one.

Gun sales in the United States can increase after mass shootings. The authors of the new paper estimate that an additional 3 million guns were sold nationwide from December 2012 through April 2013, the 5-month window immediately before and for several months after a lone gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook on 14 December. But this is the first time researchers have found a coincident surge in accidental gun deaths: Levine and McKnight studied trends in firearms sales and accidental gun deaths from 2008 through 2015 and found no other instances of such a pattern.

Continues...

[Minimalist]

Indeed.  Here's another family that is now short one kid.

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/loca...-west-side

15-year-old killed after being mistaken for intruder while sneaking back home
IMPD calls the shooting "a tragic" accident
 

Yep...having a gun means hearing a noise and blowing it away.

[Brian37]

Oh my.  Whatever will the NRA have to say about this!  More "activist judges" shit, I imagine.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.3660117

Supreme Court rejects assault weapons, open-carry appeals

The justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the Maryland law that does not permit the sale of a range of semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines.

The justices also declined an appeal asserting a constitutional right to carry firearms openly in public.

Now if we could just get the cops disarmed we might make some progress in this fucking country.

^^^^^^^^ BINGO

The far right firearm worshipers always talk about police being over militarized. Ok fine, but kind of hard to do your job if you are facing a militarized public having to fear a firearm every time you make a traffic stop.

I am SOOOOOO fucking sick of the bullshit slure that those who want pragmatic laws and a reduction of our flooded market, is somehow a call to a one party fascist state.

The firearm factories LOVE both the police and society fearing each other because that fear allows them to sell more to BOTH.

Sorry firearm nuts, you cant have it both ways. Every damned time they point to crime, they shout "SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT', then at the same time bitch about police being over armed.

Maybe police wouldn't have to fear society or be trained to assume the worst and shoot first, if firearms were not made like candy or handed out like candy.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They're just worried about being out-gunned when they open fire at closing time.