Jeff Stahler for June 05, 2016

And if there were no guns then they would have used a baseball bat, knife, axe, etc. It is not the gun but the person using it.

The number of guns in the country has been rising rapidly and the number of gun deaths have also been rising rapidly. Seems like a correlation. I thought the NRA said more guns would greatly reduce crime? I guess it is the same as the “rising tide” theory. It would be nice if our leaders would start using facts and evidence to guide their law making efforts instead of personal ideology. They could even benchmark other countries and adopt what works there.

People say they buy guns for protection, however it’s not really parctical. There is a growing difference in attitude about guns.

“Twenty years ago, there was a partisan gap of 20 points in the percentages of Republicans (45%) and Democrats (25%) prioritizing gun rights. Today, the gap has grown to 52 points; 74% of Republicans say it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun ownership, compared with 22% of Democrats.”http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/12/why-own-a-gun-protection-is-now-top-reason/

I’m finding this kind of alarming…

The end of the world as we know it? CO2 levels to reach a ‘tipping point’ on 6 June – and Earth may never recover, expert warnsCape Grim station is expected to record CO2 concentration of 400 ppm

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3586669/The-end-world-know-CO2-levels-reach-tipping-point-6-June-marking-milestone-global-warming.html#ixzz4AiJLnqVn Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

But

OBAMA IS COMING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS!

That’s the only thing to be alarmed about.

Fatal attacks by edged weapons, clubs, and fists, don’t even start to come close to the lethality of firearms. Unregulated firearms are pretty much an “American” construct, that even Scalia has said in DC vs Heller is NOT following the Constitutional call for WELL REGULATED when you leave your residence.

Mass baseball bat attacks, or even knives don’t occur in the US. As to the massacres in Rwanda and other genocides, even the machetes were backed up by AK-47s and other firearms.

ghenley said, about 13 hours ago And if there were no guns then they would have used a baseball bat, knife, axe, etc. It is not the gun but the person using it.-The issue is not which weapon is the most dangerous, IMO.The first murderer of Adam’s human race used a stone to kill his brother. A gun would not have made Abel any “deader.”-It is the person who kills fellow humans, and weapons like guns and bombs just make it easier to kill more victims at a time and from a distance, to try to avoid arrest and trials.-Person to person, murderers have used poisons, rigged “accidents” and other methods such as suffocating a sleeping victim with a pillow. The victims are just as dead.-It is also the fault of failure to enforce laws by local authorities.When police stand by and do not try to stop rioters openly breaking laws and hurting and killing people gathered for a peaceful public meeting, that is an “open door” for more violence in the future, IMO.-If our government believed in “equality in defense arms” it might cut down on criminal attacks. I mean citizens owning and being trained in the safety rules of using weapons, and the trend to “open carry” that began in states concerned about murders in “Gun Free Zones” that even include our military bases. A campaign to counter neighborhood gangs might also be a help in lowering violence.

It’s only two people, so the GOP can claim it wasn’t a mass shooting and sweep it under the carpet with the daily one or two shot dead. It doesn’t matter to the Republicans if people are killing each other, they want to play with their toys. Your right to own a gun should not supersede someone else’s right to live.

ghenleyEven at my advanced age and damaged knees, I can out run an enraged bat-wielder not specifically targeting me, but can’t outrun the bullets from a similar shooter.. sueamarlucanIt is not easy to move from one country to another unless you have a diplomatic passport. Combine reciprocal policies with US Meisterraße immigration policies, and it is becoming more difficult with time. I had to take refuge in Canada during the “love it or leave it” days because of blacklists and I can testify from first-hand experience, that Canada gained and we lost the cream of our youth in those days, and most were neither dodgers nor evaders, but left it because they loved freedom more than a chunk of real estate.

Majyck ToadI am so relieved you don’t shoot your white Meisterraße, since I have generally “passed for white” despite my Cherokee great grandmother. I have had at least credible threats on my life and I do not “pack a gat” (term from the old days in which you still live).