NSR: A gun on Every Corner: Discuss the NRA, Gun Ownership and All Those Non-Mass Shootings..

According to the FBI's UCR, in 2012 Maryland had 398 total murders, 272 were by firearm, 75 were knives or cutting tools and 34 by "other" weapons. Only two were by rifle, and it doesn't make clear whether or not it is a "assault rifle".

In 2014 there were 309 total homicides, 208 by firearm, 67 with a knife or cutting tool and 20 by "other" weapons. Only one of the firearm deaths was linked to a rifle.

I doubt this legislation will have much of an impact on gun violence in Maryland. Time spent improving background checks and mental healthcare options will be more effective in limiting gun violence than banning weapons based on aesthetic features. A folding stock, a flash hider, mag release or a mount for grenade launcher does not make the weapon an assault rifle. Limiting and/or banning high capacity magazine would make more sense (they have already done that).

 

Muslim, Indian, Mexicans to Trump fans we are all the same.

 

Largely agreed. But banning those assault rifles is easy and relatively cheap, and makes for a good headline. Improving and enforcing background checks (and wait times) as well as improving mental healthcare are vastly more difficult, and the pay-off is not as immediate.

It's pretty clear, at least to me, that more-easily-concealable hand guns are the most-used firearm for homicide/suicide/attempted murder, etc... They are a holy grail in this country, but any serious policy to curb gun violence should primarily focus on hand guns and not rifles/shot guns.

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/31/52203...les-guess-what-happened-after-trumps-election

I think most of us saw this coming.

 

Doncha just love the irony in all this?
Arkansas votes for open gun carry in public places. So for " safeties sake", to protect the public... From themselves... It just seems like a great idea to deploy shooters in the crowds at football games.
Has the world gone totally f*cking crazy...???!!!


Sniper teams should be deployed at University of Arkansas football games, says lawmker

Arkansas Republic Charlie Collins said: 'count on it' when asked about the possibility of snipers at the University of Arkansas's Razorback Stadium.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4372216/Arkansas-Republican-comments-Razorbacks.html

 

Count on it. Because, you know, in the 150 years of college football, snipers at games has been an ongoing problem.

You gotta wonder about these people. Is this their fear ... or fantasy?

 

Perhaps. To me, the possibility that they are fantasizing about having that shooter's power is equally real. They imagine the story. They buy the gun magazines. They buy the guns, and admire them, and touch them. It doesn't take much work to connect those dots.

Well, no worries. Those sorts have been around a long while now, and they haven't sniped at any more football games than have the Muslims that they fear. Now, I would bet on them to be the first to break that streak, but happily that is still an unlikely possibility.

 

Just gonna leave this here --> http://dcist.com/2017/04/nra_employee_accidentally_shoots_hi.php

 

"The 46-year-old man was attending a training at the National Firearm Museum's shooting range. The gun went off accidentally as he placed it in a holster around 3:30 p.m., according to the police account."

Guns don't go off "accidentally", the gun is not going to fire unless the trigger is pulled. The article should replace accident with negligence.

 

It's possibly a five year old child 's definition of an accident.
SOURCE : Parent of a five year old.

 

Time out in Chicago. Take the dog for a walk son. No way.....Bam!!!

Dad kills son in gunfight over dog-walk
A Chicago man fatally shot his 22-year-old son after an argument over who would walk the dog erupted into a gunfight between them, say police.

The two suffered multiple gunshot wounds in a shootout over exercising the family pet, police said.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39556824

 

Looks like people have given up trying to sort this mess out. It's never ending as more and more guns are being sold and laws are "relaxed" to let almost anyone buy weapons.
This guy didn't want to go through the slight paperwork hassle or to spend his hard earned money to get his. But he does appreciate the constitution.

FBI most wanted gun store robber is on the run with M-16 - and wrote to owner he stole arsenal from to THANK him for upholding the second amendment

A newly filed police complaint seen by DailyMail.com documents the extraordinary act and lays bare the full horror of Jakubowski’s arsenal.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4403784/FBI-wanted-gun-store-robber-run-M-16.html

 

To anyone who's ever asked why a woman didn't leave her abusive partner....this. This is why. We are never more at risk of being murdered than when ending a relationship with a man.

My roommate is having the this-isn't-going-anywhere talk tonight with a guy she's been seeing for a couple of months now. He owns a gun, and I'm definitely more nervous for her than I have been for any of the other guys she's parted ways with. I'm also glad she's never brought him to my house, so he doesn't know where we live...

 

Per Wiki, the neighborhood this occurred in, Burnside, is one of 77 official community neighborhoods. It allegedly has only 2,900 people. Strange math, that.

 

2,899 now.

 

Sure not the most un-bias source, but lets assume their stats are correct (if someone has different stats please post).

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...dcs-handgun-ban-had-no-effect-homicides-20265

 

The stats are correct. I bet the gun accident and suicide rates went up, though.

 

Nonsense-- if people don't have a gun they'll use a knife. Suicide by box cutter went down is all...

 

Why would anyone do that shit when you have the sweet oblivion of death by Oxy?

 

So here we have an American citizen defending and bragging about his 2nd amendment rights and how he will defend himself if he needs to, and the right wing media goes crazy.

http://dakotafreepress.com/tag/ehab-jaber/

Obviously the NY post will take his Facebook live video and edit the video out of context to make him sound scary.

But hate or like gun laws in the USA, if a white person can do it, so can this dude (his facebook is public).