I’d like to introduce this post with a joke: an ammosexual and an anti-Vaxxer walk into a bar. The ammoseuxal accidentally shoots the anti-Vaxxer, and the anti-Vaxxer dies because he refuses the Tetanus shot. Okay, now onto our intellectually, culturally bankrupt cesspool of a nation.
You know how I’m always saying it seems like not a day goes by without there being some accidental shooting in America? Well, that’s becoming more and more a reality according to a recent CDC report.
Analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) concluded that gun deaths in America are likely to surpass traffic fatalities this year. And that’s with Billy Joel on the road, too. While car deaths appear to be in decline, gun-related fatalities are on the rise.
Via The Week:
The majority of gun deaths result from suicides, accidents and incidents of domestic violence, while improved technology and tougher laws have led to fewer traffic fatalities. The Economist adds that there are nearly as many civilian firearms as the 320m people in the US.
According to a report published in the Annual Review of Public Health, guns are already deadlier than cars in 13 states, including California, Arizona and Virginia. In Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Utah gun suicides alone exceed the total number of traffic deaths.
So while we’re increasingly making our vehicles safer, we’re totally ignoring basic gun safety because that’s what Hitler would want…or some crap.
Cars are subjected to heavy regulation and frequent visits to concrete-laden labyrinths of forms and gray-faced employees in the bureaucratic hell known as the DMV, yet guns are more easily acquired than ever.
Like this 13-year old boy, who was able to purchase a gun with no problem at a gun show, even though he couldn’t get beer, adult magazines, cigarettes or lottery tickets because of his age elsewhere:
The only consumer product not regulated at the federal level for health and safety, in keeping with the wishes of the gun industry and compliant lawmakers.
Despite countless gun-related tragedies, particularly the gruesome events in Sandy Hook, and the fact that 91 percent of Americans supported it, Senate Republicans rejected a bill calling for basic background checks last year. And now that these Koch-snorting crazies are firmly in control of Congress, one can expect golfing outings to be more of a priority than gun safety.
H/T: The Week
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Currently thanks to the congressional nra bootlickers ,firearms are the only U.S. Made product that is exempt from oversight by the Consumer Product Safety Commission…federal law is also silent on child access prevention,which make parents liable for firearm accident,due to their failure to safely secure any firearm
vaccines too, but they’re made overseas now… Immunity from lawsuits, Gun manufacturers ,not the NRA is the money fueling this hillbilly mantra
The NRA is the lobby group for those gun manufacturers. They run the scam on the second amendment lovers to make them pay for those lobbying services to the gun manufacturers. Safety used to be one of the biggest goals of the NRA, but those were the old days. Now it is all about selling more and more guns without restrictions….
In the region I live, I used to be in charge of enforcement of legislation against selling tobacco to minors, and this kind of approach is how we monitored compliance. There were always some bad apples willing to sell to minors; they were prosecuted. The vast majority of retailers, though, complied with the law, which was passed to reduce tobacco-related deaths. The notion that a 13 year old child could legally buy a gun that could take a life in an instant, or could be used to hold up the same kind of convenience stores where he couldn’t legally buy beer, lottery tickets, or cigarettes? Absolutely insane.
As a pro-gun advocate (although, I don’t own any guns myself, too expensive), I do agree that a child shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun. I think that a parent should have to buy the gun, under their name as the owner, and take full responsibility for any actions taken with the gun. In other words, a parent buys their kid a gun, and puts it in the gun safe with other guns only taking it out when the child is taken to target practice or to go hunting. My 11 year old nephew has a gun, in his parents room, locked, so he can’t get to it. It was bought by his parents, but it is considered his. His parents (usually his father) tales it out and transports it for the child any time they are taking it to target practice. The first thing he was taught was gun safety, after that he was taught how to use it and allowed to fire it.
and illegal
Let me respond with a joke.
An advocate for gun control regulation
and an advocate for full term abortion meet in a bar. They both sign
each others petitions, because murder is wrong unless you’re murdering
babies.
The joke here is the hypocrisy of “certain” people.
YOU need to look up the definition of MURDER,,,dont you,,quit abusing the language to suit your stuipidity,,,,
No, I think I have a good grasp of the definition of murder. I think, perhaps, that you need to look up the definition of murder. Then you can look up the definition of life. After that, you can look up the proof that an unborn baby is actually alive. Assuming that you are actually willing to look at evidence contrary to your preconceived ideas that you have been told.
The only baby in an abortion is the one floting around in your empty head,,,,the definition of murder is the killing of a human being,,,a fetus does not qualify weather you like it or not,,,,,TURN OFF FIX NEWS and buy a clue,,,,,
I don’t care what you “think” qualifies. I know what qualifies, and quantifies, life. Also, instead of telling me to buy a clue, go buy yourself an English and/or grammar lesson, please. Your responses just give me a headache as I try to read such horrible grammar.
Well you can just keep on making stuff up,,you have to..no one will beleive you if you dont,,,,,
So, I have to make stuff up, because no one will believe me if I don’t? That means that no one will believe me if I tell the facts? Do a google search for the facts, you will see.
A wart is life,,a tumor is life a cyst is life ,,they all get removed from peoples body every day and no one is stuipid enough to call it murder except for a ignorant few ,,,like you who dont know what they are talking about,,,if you dont like abortions dont have one…if its not YOUR BODY its not your body so STFU
Ah. “STFU”. The argument of the ignorant. Come back when you are more learned in this area. Do some research. Real research, not just the research put out by PP and pro-abortionists.
“Your OPINION has been duly noted
and properly filed”
GET BACK TO ME WHEN YOU HAVE
,,,,FACTS Some people
can build an entire philosophy from stupidity.
All right, as soon as you get me some “facts”. Of course, I know you can’t because the “facts” that the so-called “pro-choice” claim are all false. So, show me some real facts, do some research. I have done the research. You want facts, science has already proven that fetus’s are alive within 6 weeks. That they can feel pain. That they contain the DNA of both the mother and the father, making them their own entity, not a superfluous organ of the mother. That they are not parasites.
GREAT,,,if they are not parasites,,take them out of the mothers womb and let them go about their merry way,,,,NICE TRY DR,STRANGELOVE
So its the motorcycles fault when some jock desides to get a super bike as his first bike and he plows it into a van at 150mph with no helmet on? Thats the logic youre using dumbass. If you commit suicide with a gun it aint my fault you cant deal with everyday stress.
“Officer
Down”
Assault
Weapons and the War on Law Enforcement
Section
One: Assault Weapons, the Gun Industry, and Law Enforcement
Assault Weapons: A Clear Threat to Law Enforcement
A primary stimulus for the 1994 law was the severe threat that
assault weapons pose to law enforcement officers. Police and other law
enforcement personnel were some of the first victims of the assault weapon
trend that emerged in the 1980s. For example, in October 1984, a San Jose,
California, police officer was gunned down with an UZI carbine. In a
high-profile shootout in April 1986, two agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) were killed by robbery suspects wielding a Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle.
Five other agents were wounded in the gun battle. As high-capacity assault
weapons became more commonplace, police routinely complained that they were
being outgunned by suspects. As a result, major law enforcement organizations
supported passage of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban
The only purpose of assault weapons is
killing human beings quickly and in large numbers.
2. Assault weapons are more likely to be used in
crime and, as such, cause more (and more violent) crime.
3. Assault weapons uniquely threaten public
health and safety.
4. The vast majority of Americans, even those
in favor of guns in general, support an assault weapons ban.
·
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“It’s simple: assault rifles are often the
weapon of choice for nut cases and mass murderers, so remove them from the
legal gun trade.” “What can we expect in a country that allows a person to
legally acquire an arsenal of weapons and ammunition of a murderous magnitude?
… With military combat-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips
readily available to virtually anybody without even a background check or ID,
unnecessary deaths become routine and fear becomes the norm.”
·
NO ONE hunts rabbits with a A K 47
and no one defends their home with a rocket grenade launcher,, guns that
do not belong on the streets need to come off the streets
Is that why police officers are killing the unarmed, mainly black ones? I don’t see the real sense.
NO It is called murder and there is no sense in it,,
Everything mount to the greed, arrogance and control power of the NRA, backed by the cowboy mentality of the American people. Now, tell me why 95% of these cowboys are white?