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Great, now 15 year old Jimmy the psychopath and others like them who are too young to buy guns can get one for free by knocking out their teacher from behind.
This idea is so dumb that it blows my mind grown adults came up with it.
Oh...but they can force a person to carry health insurance?!?No one can force a person to carry a gun dunce. Your idiocy just keeps multiplying by the day.
You said Americans don’t want gun control.Would these be the same polls that said Hitlery Clinton would become the next President of the United States in a “landslide” victory?2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
You’re one of the few remaining dimwits who still allows himself to be duped by left-wing propaganda masked as “polls”.
No one can force a person to carry a gun dunce.I’m sure the genius right would want the teachers to pay for their own guns along with all the other out of pocket expenses teacher have.Well as we’ve seen, school shooters typically take their own lives with the exception of the most recent case. Of course, it really wouldn’t be hard for the shooter to take out his teacher and a dozen others in the classroom and then, you know, flee the scene.And....uh....why would Jimmy do that knowing that all other teachers are armed and would blow his ass away?Great, now 15 year old Jimmy the psychopath and others like them who are too young to buy guns can get one for free by knocking out their teacher from behind.
This idea is so dumb that it blows my mind grown adults came up with it.
Seriously Billy000 - do you ever think before posting?
Also, who is paying for all those guns for every teacher in America?
Making teachers carry guns is unconstitutional.
But the Constitution went out of favor the day Trump was inaugurated
really?Making teachers carry guns is unconstitutional.
Which Amendment?
Your idiocy just keeps multiplying by the day.
In the same way that you “proved” that Hitlery Clinton would be the next President of the United States?I proved they didWould these be the same polls that said Hitlery Clinton would become the next President of the United States in a “landslide” victory?2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
You’re one of the few remaining dimwits who still allows himself to be duped by left-wing propaganda masked as “polls”.
Don’t confuse the non Patriot with common sense.lol you are so dense. He knocks his teacher out from behind, takes the gun, shoots several people and then runs out of the school before any of these special ops/teachers have time to do anything. That’s it. That’s all it takes.So in your mind, average joe-student has the skills of a ninja and a special forces operator? He will quickly disarm his teacher and then efficiently execute “a dozen” students in the class (even though very few handguns hold a dozen rounds)?Well as we’ve seen, school shooters typically take their own lives with the exception of the most recent case. Of course, it really wouldn’t be hard for the shooter to take out his teacher and a dozen others in the classroom and then, you know, flee the scene.
Name one other country that has the multitude of mass killings especially school shootings like the USA does.LolI proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see.If that were even remotely true - it would have happemed already, snowflake. Think for once in your life.You are consistent. Consistently wrong.Uh...literally no Americans want that (which is why it hasn’t happened and never will). Now, you anti-American criminals want that of course. But not Americans.
Most Americans — and most Republicans — want stricter gun laws:...
Hilarious you don’t why that hasn’t happened.
Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby. That’s why it hasn’t happened.
If the GOP Congress doesn’t have a gun control bill by midterms, their ass is grass.
Americans are sick of their children being gunned down by military assault weapons. They’ve had enough.,
Shit for brains...
The Assault Weapon Myth
By LOIS BECKETT
OVER the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition: The sale of assault weapons should be banned.
That idea was one of the pillars of the Obama administration’s plan to curb gun violence, and it remains popular with the public. In a poll last December, 59 percent of likely voters said they favor a ban.
But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.
The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6 percent of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.
This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.
Handguns were used in more than 80 percent of gun murders each year, but gun control advocates had failed to interest enough of the public in a handgun ban. Handguns were the weapons most likely to kill you, but they were associated by the public with self-defense. (In 2008, the Supreme Court said there was a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense.)
Banning sales of military-style weapons resonated with both legislators and the public: Civilians did not need to own guns designed for use in war zones.
On Sept. 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban into law. It barred the manufacture and sale of new guns with military features and magazines holding more than 10 rounds. But the law allowed those who already owned these guns — an estimated 1.5 million of them — to keep their weapons.
The policy proved costly. Mr. Clinton blamed the ban for Democratic losses in 1994. Crime fell, but when the ban expired, a detailed study found no proof that it had contributed to the decline.
The ban did reduce the number of assault weapons recovered by local police, to 1 percent from roughly 2 percent.
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a Department of Justice-funded evaluation concluded.
Still, the majority of Americans continued to support a ban on assault weapons.
One reason: The use of these weapons may be rare over all, but they’re used frequently in the gun violence that gets the most media coverage, mass shootings.
The criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University estimates that there have been an average of 100 victims killed each year in mass shootings over the past three decades. That’s less than 1 percent of gun homicide victims.
But these acts of violence in schools and movie theaters have come to define the problem of gun violence in America.
Most Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since 1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the United States are still much higher than those in other developed nations. A Pew survey conducted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., found that 56 percent of Americans believed wrongly that the rate of gun crime was higher than it was 20 years ago.
Even as homicide rates have held steady or declined for most Americans over the last decade, for black men the rate has sometimes risen. But it took a handful of mass shootings in 2012 to put gun control back on Congress’s agenda.
AFTER Sandy Hook, President Obama introduced an initiative to reduce gun violence. He laid out a litany of tragedies: the children of Newtown, the moviegoers of Aurora, Colo. But he did not mention gun violence among black men.
To be fair, the president’s first legislative priority after Sandy Hook was universal background checks, a measure that might have shrunk the market for illegal guns used in many urban shootings. But Republicans in Congress killed that effort. The next proposal on his list was reinstating and “strengthening” bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. It also went nowhere.
“We spent a whole bunch of time and a whole bunch of political capital yelling and screaming about assault weapons,” Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans said. He called it a “zero sum political fight about a symbolic weapon.”
Mr. Landrieu and Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia are founders of Cities United, a network of mayors trying to prevent the deaths of young black men. “This is not just a gun issue, this is an unemployment issue, it’s a poverty issue, it’s a family issue, it’s a culture of violence issue,” Mr. Landrieu said.
More than 20 years of research funded by the Justice Department has found that programs to target high-risk people or places, rather than targeting certain kinds of guns, can reduce gun violence.
David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the issue of gun violence can seem enormous and intractable without first addressing poverty or drugs. A closer look at the social networks of neighborhoods most afflicted, he says, often shows that only a small number of men drive most of the violence. Identify them and change their behavior, and it’s possible to have an immediate impact.
Working with Professor Kennedy, and building on successes in other cities, New Orleans is now identifying the young men most at risk and intervening to help them get jobs. How well this strategy will work in the long term remains to be seen.
But it’s an approach based on an honest assessment of the real numbers.
Your Bullshit doesn’t fly with the facts.
I bet your article was endorsed and funded by the NRA.
You’re such a maroon. The polls weren’t wrong. Hillary was up by double digits until Comey came out with his bs that she was under investigation but didn’t tell the country Trump was under investigation.In the same way that you “proved” that Hitlery Clinton would be the next President of the United States?I proved they didWould these be the same polls that said Hitlery Clinton would become the next President of the United States in a “landslide” victory?2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
You’re one of the few remaining dimwits who still allows himself to be duped by left-wing propaganda masked as “polls”.
I had a math teacher in high school who was so blind that he once stumbled over a coat and hat rack, tipped his hat, and apologized to it.
Right. let's arm our teachers.
Is there a point hidden in there somewhere?
I'll bet your math teacher already had arms, or he couldn't have tipped his hat!
No one said that all teachers had to be armed, dumbass!
responding to a trollmod trollBy far the dumbest poster on any forum that I have ever posted on.You really are the dumbest poster on this forum.Why does the gun have to be on her person? Why not have them in a secure location in the classroom?
I would love to be able to keep an AR-15 in my classroom for just such emergencies.
True. They could have AR-15 in locked cases in every classroom, and a few select and trained teachers would have a key.By far the dumbest poster on any forum that I have ever posted on.
Not if you were there
The New York Times...Name one other country that has the multitude of mass killings especially school shootings like the USA does.LolI proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see.If that were even remotely true - it would have happemed already, snowflake. Think for once in your life.You are consistent. Consistently wrong.
Most Americans — and most Republicans — want stricter gun laws:...
Hilarious you don’t why that hasn’t happened.
Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby. That’s why it hasn’t happened.
If the GOP Congress doesn’t have a gun control bill by midterms, their ass is grass.
Americans are sick of their children being gunned down by military assault weapons. They’ve had enough.,
Shit for brains...
The Assault Weapon Myth
By LOIS BECKETT
OVER the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition: The sale of assault weapons should be banned.
That idea was one of the pillars of the Obama administration’s plan to curb gun violence, and it remains popular with the public. In a poll last December, 59 percent of likely voters said they favor a ban.
But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.
The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6 percent of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.
This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.
Handguns were used in more than 80 percent of gun murders each year, but gun control advocates had failed to interest enough of the public in a handgun ban. Handguns were the weapons most likely to kill you, but they were associated by the public with self-defense. (In 2008, the Supreme Court said there was a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense.)
Banning sales of military-style weapons resonated with both legislators and the public: Civilians did not need to own guns designed for use in war zones.
On Sept. 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban into law. It barred the manufacture and sale of new guns with military features and magazines holding more than 10 rounds. But the law allowed those who already owned these guns — an estimated 1.5 million of them — to keep their weapons.
The policy proved costly. Mr. Clinton blamed the ban for Democratic losses in 1994. Crime fell, but when the ban expired, a detailed study found no proof that it had contributed to the decline.
The ban did reduce the number of assault weapons recovered by local police, to 1 percent from roughly 2 percent.
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a Department of Justice-funded evaluation concluded.
Still, the majority of Americans continued to support a ban on assault weapons.
One reason: The use of these weapons may be rare over all, but they’re used frequently in the gun violence that gets the most media coverage, mass shootings.
The criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University estimates that there have been an average of 100 victims killed each year in mass shootings over the past three decades. That’s less than 1 percent of gun homicide victims.
But these acts of violence in schools and movie theaters have come to define the problem of gun violence in America.
Most Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since 1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the United States are still much higher than those in other developed nations. A Pew survey conducted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., found that 56 percent of Americans believed wrongly that the rate of gun crime was higher than it was 20 years ago.
Even as homicide rates have held steady or declined for most Americans over the last decade, for black men the rate has sometimes risen. But it took a handful of mass shootings in 2012 to put gun control back on Congress’s agenda.
AFTER Sandy Hook, President Obama introduced an initiative to reduce gun violence. He laid out a litany of tragedies: the children of Newtown, the moviegoers of Aurora, Colo. But he did not mention gun violence among black men.
To be fair, the president’s first legislative priority after Sandy Hook was universal background checks, a measure that might have shrunk the market for illegal guns used in many urban shootings. But Republicans in Congress killed that effort. The next proposal on his list was reinstating and “strengthening” bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. It also went nowhere.
“We spent a whole bunch of time and a whole bunch of political capital yelling and screaming about assault weapons,” Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans said. He called it a “zero sum political fight about a symbolic weapon.”
Mr. Landrieu and Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia are founders of Cities United, a network of mayors trying to prevent the deaths of young black men. “This is not just a gun issue, this is an unemployment issue, it’s a poverty issue, it’s a family issue, it’s a culture of violence issue,” Mr. Landrieu said.
More than 20 years of research funded by the Justice Department has found that programs to target high-risk people or places, rather than targeting certain kinds of guns, can reduce gun violence.
David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the issue of gun violence can seem enormous and intractable without first addressing poverty or drugs. A closer look at the social networks of neighborhoods most afflicted, he says, often shows that only a small number of men drive most of the violence. Identify them and change their behavior, and it’s possible to have an immediate impact.
Working with Professor Kennedy, and building on successes in other cities, New Orleans is now identifying the young men most at risk and intervening to help them get jobs. How well this strategy will work in the long term remains to be seen.
But it’s an approach based on an honest assessment of the real numbers.
Your Bullshit doesn’t fly with the facts.
I bet your article was endorsed and funded by the NRA.
Here you go, fuck face… LOL
The Assault Weapon Myth
once again you are proved wrongThe worst Education Secretary in history.... the one with absolutely no experience( Trump’s favorite kind) chirps in with her stupidly.
Schools 'have option to arm teachers', says US education secretary
Anything but enacting gun control which most of America desperately wants.
You suck far too much Hildabeast dick....1. Hillary wasn’t anti gun. That’s just another of the thousands of lies your orange dunce came up with.This is just vintage Unreasonable “logic”. The overwhelming majority of Americans want gun control. But it hasn’t happened because the power of the gun lobby.I proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see. Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby.
Junior here literally has no idea that the gun lobby only exists because it is the will of the American people. It is so “powerful” because it is backed by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Pro-gun candidates get elected because they are backed by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Anti-gun candidates (like Hitlery Clinton) are sent home because they are backed by a radical minuscule minority.
2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
3. Your POS prez overturned Obama’s law to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Your Pos president made sure the MI can get as many guns as they want.
It absolutely bewilders me why you think this whiny little bitch is a “real man”. Why? Because he says he is? Do real men have Twitter tantrums? Do real men wear fake tans and have fake hair? Do they feud with irrelevant beauty queens? Do they feel the need to reassure the public about how big their dick is? How about grabbing pussy whenever they feel like it. Is that what you think a real man is?No one can force a person to carry a gun dunce.I’m sure the genius right would want the teachers to pay for their own guns along with all the other out of pocket expenses teacher have.Well as we’ve seen, school shooters typically take their own lives with the exception of the most recent case. Of course, it really wouldn’t be hard for the shooter to take out his teacher and a dozen others in the classroom and then, you know, flee the scene.And....uh....why would Jimmy do that knowing that all other teachers are armed and would blow his ass away?
Seriously Billy000 - do you ever think before posting?
Also, who is paying for all those guns for every teacher in America?
Making teachers carry guns is unconstitutional.
But the Constitution went out of favor the day Trump was inaugurated
really?Making teachers carry guns is unconstitutional.
Which Amendment?
Your idiocy just keeps multiplying by the day.
Resist ...
...the desire to weep when your candidate goes down in flames and we get a 'real man' in the White House.
Idiot posts the same lame article again. How stupid are you?Name one other country that has the multitude of mass killings especially school shootings like the USA does.LolI proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see.If that were even remotely true - it would have happemed already, snowflake. Think for once in your life.You are consistent. Consistently wrong.
Most Americans — and most Republicans — want stricter gun laws:...
Hilarious you don’t why that hasn’t happened.
Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby. That’s why it hasn’t happened.
If the GOP Congress doesn’t have a gun control bill by midterms, their ass is grass.
Americans are sick of their children being gunned down by military assault weapons. They’ve had enough.,
Shit for brains...
The Assault Weapon Myth
By LOIS BECKETT
OVER the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition: The sale of assault weapons should be banned.
That idea was one of the pillars of the Obama administration’s plan to curb gun violence, and it remains popular with the public. In a poll last December, 59 percent of likely voters said they favor a ban.
But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.
The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6 percent of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.
This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.
Handguns were used in more than 80 percent of gun murders each year, but gun control advocates had failed to interest enough of the public in a handgun ban. Handguns were the weapons most likely to kill you, but they were associated by the public with self-defense. (In 2008, the Supreme Court said there was a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense.)
Banning sales of military-style weapons resonated with both legislators and the public: Civilians did not need to own guns designed for use in war zones.
On Sept. 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban into law. It barred the manufacture and sale of new guns with military features and magazines holding more than 10 rounds. But the law allowed those who already owned these guns — an estimated 1.5 million of them — to keep their weapons.
The policy proved costly. Mr. Clinton blamed the ban for Democratic losses in 1994. Crime fell, but when the ban expired, a detailed study found no proof that it had contributed to the decline.
The ban did reduce the number of assault weapons recovered by local police, to 1 percent from roughly 2 percent.
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a Department of Justice-funded evaluation concluded.
Still, the majority of Americans continued to support a ban on assault weapons.
One reason: The use of these weapons may be rare over all, but they’re used frequently in the gun violence that gets the most media coverage, mass shootings.
The criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University estimates that there have been an average of 100 victims killed each year in mass shootings over the past three decades. That’s less than 1 percent of gun homicide victims.
But these acts of violence in schools and movie theaters have come to define the problem of gun violence in America.
Most Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since 1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the United States are still much higher than those in other developed nations. A Pew survey conducted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., found that 56 percent of Americans believed wrongly that the rate of gun crime was higher than it was 20 years ago.
Even as homicide rates have held steady or declined for most Americans over the last decade, for black men the rate has sometimes risen. But it took a handful of mass shootings in 2012 to put gun control back on Congress’s agenda.
AFTER Sandy Hook, President Obama introduced an initiative to reduce gun violence. He laid out a litany of tragedies: the children of Newtown, the moviegoers of Aurora, Colo. But he did not mention gun violence among black men.
To be fair, the president’s first legislative priority after Sandy Hook was universal background checks, a measure that might have shrunk the market for illegal guns used in many urban shootings. But Republicans in Congress killed that effort. The next proposal on his list was reinstating and “strengthening” bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. It also went nowhere.
“We spent a whole bunch of time and a whole bunch of political capital yelling and screaming about assault weapons,” Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans said. He called it a “zero sum political fight about a symbolic weapon.”
Mr. Landrieu and Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia are founders of Cities United, a network of mayors trying to prevent the deaths of young black men. “This is not just a gun issue, this is an unemployment issue, it’s a poverty issue, it’s a family issue, it’s a culture of violence issue,” Mr. Landrieu said.
More than 20 years of research funded by the Justice Department has found that programs to target high-risk people or places, rather than targeting certain kinds of guns, can reduce gun violence.
David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the issue of gun violence can seem enormous and intractable without first addressing poverty or drugs. A closer look at the social networks of neighborhoods most afflicted, he says, often shows that only a small number of men drive most of the violence. Identify them and change their behavior, and it’s possible to have an immediate impact.
Working with Professor Kennedy, and building on successes in other cities, New Orleans is now identifying the young men most at risk and intervening to help them get jobs. How well this strategy will work in the long term remains to be seen.
But it’s an approach based on an honest assessment of the real numbers.
Your Bullshit doesn’t fly with the facts.
I bet your article was endorsed and funded by the NRA.
Here you go, fuck face… LOL
The Assault Weapon Myth
Oh...but they can force a person to carry health insurance?!?No one can force a person to carry a gun dunce. Your idiocy just keeps multiplying by the day.
Na, You bet on the putin cocksucker Hildabeast... lolYou’re such a maroon. The polls weren’t wrong. Hillary was up by double digits until Comey came out with his bs that she was under investigation but didn’t tell the country Trump was under investigation.In the same way that you “proved” that Hitlery Clinton would be the next President of the United States?I proved they didWould these be the same polls that said Hitlery Clinton would become the next President of the United States in a “landslide” victory?2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
You’re one of the few remaining dimwits who still allows himself to be duped by left-wing propaganda masked as “polls”.
After he said she wasn’t the damage was done and the Russia / Putin got their victory they worked so hard to attain.
Gladly! Here you go. Still the supreme law of the land. Still completely unaltered from when it was written!You said Americans don’t want gun control. Link?
Indisputable proof that the overwhelming majority of Americans do not want gun control. If they did, that amendment would have been amended already, snowflake. That’s the difference between reality and your precious little “polls”.A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
That article came out of the New York Times fuck faceIdiot posts the same lame article again. How stupid are you?Name one other country that has the multitude of mass killings especially school shootings like the USA does.LolI proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see.If that were even remotely true - it would have happemed already, snowflake. Think for once in your life.
Hilarious you don’t why that hasn’t happened.
Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby. That’s why it hasn’t happened.
If the GOP Congress doesn’t have a gun control bill by midterms, their ass is grass.
Americans are sick of their children being gunned down by military assault weapons. They’ve had enough.,
Shit for brains...
The Assault Weapon Myth
By LOIS BECKETT
OVER the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition: The sale of assault weapons should be banned.
That idea was one of the pillars of the Obama administration’s plan to curb gun violence, and it remains popular with the public. In a poll last December, 59 percent of likely voters said they favor a ban.
But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.
The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6 percent of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.
This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.
Handguns were used in more than 80 percent of gun murders each year, but gun control advocates had failed to interest enough of the public in a handgun ban. Handguns were the weapons most likely to kill you, but they were associated by the public with self-defense. (In 2008, the Supreme Court said there was a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense.)
Banning sales of military-style weapons resonated with both legislators and the public: Civilians did not need to own guns designed for use in war zones.
On Sept. 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban into law. It barred the manufacture and sale of new guns with military features and magazines holding more than 10 rounds. But the law allowed those who already owned these guns — an estimated 1.5 million of them — to keep their weapons.
The policy proved costly. Mr. Clinton blamed the ban for Democratic losses in 1994. Crime fell, but when the ban expired, a detailed study found no proof that it had contributed to the decline.
The ban did reduce the number of assault weapons recovered by local police, to 1 percent from roughly 2 percent.
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a Department of Justice-funded evaluation concluded.
Still, the majority of Americans continued to support a ban on assault weapons.
One reason: The use of these weapons may be rare over all, but they’re used frequently in the gun violence that gets the most media coverage, mass shootings.
The criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University estimates that there have been an average of 100 victims killed each year in mass shootings over the past three decades. That’s less than 1 percent of gun homicide victims.
But these acts of violence in schools and movie theaters have come to define the problem of gun violence in America.
Most Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since 1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the United States are still much higher than those in other developed nations. A Pew survey conducted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., found that 56 percent of Americans believed wrongly that the rate of gun crime was higher than it was 20 years ago.
Even as homicide rates have held steady or declined for most Americans over the last decade, for black men the rate has sometimes risen. But it took a handful of mass shootings in 2012 to put gun control back on Congress’s agenda.
AFTER Sandy Hook, President Obama introduced an initiative to reduce gun violence. He laid out a litany of tragedies: the children of Newtown, the moviegoers of Aurora, Colo. But he did not mention gun violence among black men.
To be fair, the president’s first legislative priority after Sandy Hook was universal background checks, a measure that might have shrunk the market for illegal guns used in many urban shootings. But Republicans in Congress killed that effort. The next proposal on his list was reinstating and “strengthening” bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. It also went nowhere.
“We spent a whole bunch of time and a whole bunch of political capital yelling and screaming about assault weapons,” Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans said. He called it a “zero sum political fight about a symbolic weapon.”
Mr. Landrieu and Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia are founders of Cities United, a network of mayors trying to prevent the deaths of young black men. “This is not just a gun issue, this is an unemployment issue, it’s a poverty issue, it’s a family issue, it’s a culture of violence issue,” Mr. Landrieu said.
More than 20 years of research funded by the Justice Department has found that programs to target high-risk people or places, rather than targeting certain kinds of guns, can reduce gun violence.
David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the issue of gun violence can seem enormous and intractable without first addressing poverty or drugs. A closer look at the social networks of neighborhoods most afflicted, he says, often shows that only a small number of men drive most of the violence. Identify them and change their behavior, and it’s possible to have an immediate impact.
Working with Professor Kennedy, and building on successes in other cities, New Orleans is now identifying the young men most at risk and intervening to help them get jobs. How well this strategy will work in the long term remains to be seen.
But it’s an approach based on an honest assessment of the real numbers.
Your Bullshit doesn’t fly with the facts.
I bet your article was endorsed and funded by the NRA.
Here you go, fuck face… LOL
The Assault Weapon Myth
Rhetorical question.
Obviously you think it’s just great that even the mentally ill can get assault weapons( TY Pres Trump) and can gun down hundreds at concerts, schools , movie theaters etc because of “ freedom.”
The freedom to watch your loved ones die.
Go fuck yourself
1. Hillary wasn’t anti gun. That’s just another of the thousands of lies your orange dunce came up with.This is just vintage Unreasonable “logic”. The overwhelming majority of Americans want gun control. But it hasn’t happened because the power of the gun lobby.I proved you dead wrong. And you can’t handle it. Facts confuse you I see. Talk to the GOP Congress who receives millions from the gun lobby.
Junior here literally has no idea that the gun lobby only exists because it is the will of the American people. It is so “powerful” because it is backed by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Pro-gun candidates get elected because they are backed by the overwhelming majority of the American people. Anti-gun candidates (like Hitlery Clinton) are sent home because they are backed by a radical minuscule minority.
2. Poll after poll we see Americans are sick and tired of the fake “ thoughts and prayers” and want gun control.
3. Your POS prez overturned Obama’s law to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Your Pos president made sure the MI can get as many guns as they want.
As diagnosed by a cubical monkey at the SSA3. Your POS prez overturned Obama’s law to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
