"Gun control is what is killing Americans."
The Right Wing Media made a wedge issue out of it and the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to expire.
"Every American needs to be armed to protect themselves."
The Right Wing media made a wedge issue out of it and now there are states passing legislation for weapons in parks, universities, the work place and every bathroom in America. At least one per household and more than one per month.
"Every crazy needs to be banned from owning guns."
That became the common cry of the Right Wing Media. Stop the crazies and arm the citizens.
H.R.3801 Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 (click here)
Wow, that was a relief to me. Those ultralights simply buzz day and night in the USA carrying weapons to every corner of the nation.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold obtained their weapons from a gun show. Today, does that matter? Absolutely not. Why? Because the 'Statisticians for the Gun Lobby' play with percentages and completely disregard THE ONE LIFE necessity.
...Our results … (click here) provide no evidence to suggest that gun shows lead to a substantial increase in the number of homicides or suicides in either California or Texas. If anything, we find evidence of a modest decline in the number of homicides following the average gun show in Texas, though our aggregate implied effects amount to just 1 percent of all homicides in the state of Texas. Taken together, our results suggest that gun shows do not increase the number of homicides or suicides and that the absence of gun-show regulations does not increase the number of gun-related deaths as proponents of these regulations suggest....
California is where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out their 'dreamscape' to eventually highjack a plane and crash it into New York City. It was California where Harris and Klebold killed with impunity until they were satisfied they were going to die at the hand of police.
YET, this study chooses to ignore 'The One Death Rule' and hide those statistics in percentages and a game called wealth and politics.
Gun Shows should be highly regulated as a source of obtaining illegal weapons. They should be required to have competitions as the reason for the show and all transactions done on consignment through a gun dealer and/or store where background checks are required by law. There should be absolutely no changing ownership of guns and/or ammunition at gun shows. Appraisals are a good thing as gun shows, but, sales should be outlawed to opt for consignment.
The justification for a highly regulated gun lobby is this statistic:
Over 80% of guns recovered in crime are obtained by perpetrators illegally (click here).
It is, oh so easy. Oh, so easy, for the NRA to point to government as the problem preventing every citizen from arming themselves.
BUT.
It is not so easy for the NRA to claim they have facilitated the control of ILLEGAL GUN distribution in the USA or anywhere in the world.
Then legislation to control 30 bullet clips was submitted as a solution to the attempted assassination of a USA House Representative, the death of a child, the death of her dearest assistant, the death of a federal judge and dear sweet citizens that came to a gathering exercising their right to assembly. But, that was never going to happen in a completely dysfunctional house controlled by the NRA and their Wall Street cronies. Even when one of their own was nearly assassinated, the USA House looked the other way and opted for more munitions on the streets of the USA.
...A Maricopa County Superior Court (click here) jury on Wednesday awarded $36 million to the family of a man shot to death by a mental patient in a Walmart parking lot in 2005.
ValueOptions Inc., the company that held the state contract for providing behavioral health care until last year, was found 90 percent at fault in the death of Patrick Graham, 35, of Glendale. Graham was one of two men shot by Ed Liu, a ValueOptions patient who has suffered from paranoid schizophrenia for more than 20 years....
Even after the Right Wing's Precious Plutocracy was sued for millions of dollars US that won't find its way into their political coffers, they still acted in offense of the best interests to the American people.
Well, it must be the schizophrenia, you know. Wait. I have an idea. Let's simply lock up every schizophrenic and throw away the key now that indefinite detention is allowed by the USA. Sounds like a plan. But. It doesn't sound like a plan the USA has, should or could embrace.
Why is the GOP so offensive to the best interests of the people of the USA?
Political wedge issues.
Just that simple. If talking about gun control is political suicide then no one will do it.
The laws of the USA and the law making of the USA do not belong to the people anymore, they belong to wedge issues and what works for the wealthy to control their profits.
...The NRA never misses a chance to misrepresent (click here) the positions of people who advocate reasonable gun control, to make Americans afraid that the government wants to take away their right to defend their homes and their loved ones, and to turn any attempt to have a sensible conversation about guns into an assault on the Second Amendment....
...So it makes sense for military counselors to talk to at-risk active-duty soldiers about owning a gun. No, that’s against the law. A rule in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act — backed by the NRA of course — prohibits such conversations. The NRA was outraged, apparently, that a Kansas army base wanted soldiers to register privately owned weapons. Oh the horror! Next thing you know they’ll just take rifles away from combat soldiers and replace them with ACLU cards....
The right to council a person at risk for violence against themselves of others is a PATIENT PRIVACY ACT, yet, the NRA managed to override that privacy issue by instituting laws that PROHIBIT 'Therapeutic Speech.'
Wake up, America.
The enemy is sincerely within our borders.
