Why haven't we heard from wacky Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Assn., during the recent gun violence? There was Santa Barbara, then Seattle, Atlanta, and now Las Vegas. Four incidents of horrific gun massacre in four major cities in less than three weeks. A total of 13 killed and 16 injured. Did I hear, "Guns don't kill, people do?" Or maybe it was some left-overs from the mob in Las Vegas that made them do it. Could LaPierre be trying to decide whether we can call these "shootings." What bothers me most is the fact that the American public remains quiet, as if these kinds of events are now considered acceptable. Hey out there, don't you care that your friends, neighbors and relatives are being slaughtered with one of the 300 million guns on U.S. streets?
Maybe when it's one of your own you will.
Monday, June 9, 2014
NRA WANTS TO WEAKEN VIRGINIA GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION LAW
The Virginia Center for Public Safety reports the NRA wants
to scrap a Virginia database that is state-of-the-art and second to none in the
nation. The National Rifle Assn. is calling on its members to help repeal the
1989 law, the Virginia Firearms Transaction Program (VFTP). The VFTP
works along with the FBI’s National Instant Background Checks System
(NICS) to check the background of those purchasing firearms in the Commonwealth
of Virginia. This helps catch those people not eligible to purchase firearms
like felons and the mentally ill. And the point is it works much better
than NICS. So why would anyone want to get rid of it? Only a bunch of morons
that value their stupid gun rights over the lives of innocent people.
ThinkProgress details how the Bush administration proposedlegislation requiring states to share mental health history. It was passed by
Congress but not until after the NRA watered it down significantly. The final
bill set up restoration programs for the mentally ill, in effect to put guns
back into their hands. And the definition for "mental defect" was
narrowed to make it easier for this person to get his or her gun back. It's the
typical NRA gun-running philosophy to keep putting more weapons on the street.
Which means gun manufacturers sell more and give more money to the NRA.
Pathetic and disgusting but seemingly approved by a lot of the American public,
also pathetic and disgusting.Sunday, June 8, 2014
DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE PAVING WAY FOR GUN CONTROL-NRA CRINGES
Wacky Wayne LaPierre in his glory |
SMART MONEY GOING TO GUN CONTROL SINCE NEWTOWN
Michael Bloomberg |
Saturday, June 7, 2014
FAULT FOR GUN VIOLENCE PLACED EVERYWHERE BUT WHERE IT BELONGS...THE NRA
It's the media, it's the criminal world, it's video games, it's the U.S. government. The National Rifle Assn.'s list goes on and on but fails to identify the real reason we have so much gun violence in this country: The NRA. It's opposition to reasonable gun control, things like background checks. Wacky Wayne LaPierre, NRA head, has one solution to the problem: more guns. Based on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, there are about 300 million guns in the United States. Access to firearms is about as easy as getting an ice cream cone, maybe easier. So we need more?
Missouri repealed a law requiring background checks leading to a 16 percent increase in the state murder rate, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Think Progress. Another study from this site reports that states, "...with more expansive background check laws experience 48 percent less gun trafficking, 38 percent fewer deaths of women shot by intimate partners, and 17 percent fewer firearms involved in aggravated assaults. How many facts like this are necessary to convince Congress and...wacky Wayne?
Missouri repealed a law requiring background checks leading to a 16 percent increase in the state murder rate, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Think Progress. Another study from this site reports that states, "...with more expansive background check laws experience 48 percent less gun trafficking, 38 percent fewer deaths of women shot by intimate partners, and 17 percent fewer firearms involved in aggravated assaults. How many facts like this are necessary to convince Congress and...wacky Wayne?
HERE'S A NEW ONE-NRA DOESN'T WANT TO CALL SHOOTINGS "SHOOTINGS"
So what the hell do you call them, a reunion for gun nuts? This gaggle of reality restricted gun lovers over life complains the media "race[s] to label anything with a gun as a shooting." Although not directly related to the Isla Vista California shootings--oh sorry, I meant to say a completely innocuous use of firearms to kill innocent people in order to protect the rights of the radical double digit gun culture--the video was released right after that killing spree. Maybe the NRA is just pissed since in Santa Barbara three people were stabbed, only three killed with a gun; how could this killer be so inconsiderate to use a knife. Strange reasoning but then we're talking about the National Rifle Assn. The above article points out, "Firearms are used in 69.3 percent of murders. Of 37 public mass killings between 2006 and 2013, 33 involved firearms..." All gun control advocates eagerly await the latest epiphany from wacky Wayne LaPierre, NRA head.
Friday, June 6, 2014
SOUTH RISES AGAIN...WITH MORE RACISM
Not just the old South anymore |
But not like the supervisor at the Memphis cotton company who told a black employee, you can't drink from the "white" water fountain and if you do we'll hang you. He was fired but the damage was already done. You just wonder how much more of this is going on in the South, or the North, or the Midwest, or the Southwest, or the West or the Northwest.
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