Texans can now openly carry guns in public without a permit or training...CNN: "Police say the new law makes it harder to do their jobs"

[Coyote]

what happened to my body my choice???

guess that only matters when a women wants to kill her child,,

Mental illness is a disease. If someone, in a rational state of mind, wants to end their life, it is their choice.

 

[progressive hunter]

Mental illness is a disease. If someone, in a rational state of mind, wants to end their life, it is their choice.

you would know all about mental illness first hand,,

so why are you saying they cant have a gun because they will commit suicide??

 

[beautress]

By all means…

Let untrained and uncleared morons run around with guns

Driving while texting causes far more fatalities per capita than guns. I leave cellphones at home, and my gun is used only to shoot water mocassins, rattlers, coral snakes and copperheads that meet at twilight time at the pond. The little gun never leaves my farmstead, and I avoid going out at day's beginning and day's end. Why worry since most people don't use guns when they are not needed as a chore.

We just honor the Second Amendment rights in Texas. that's all.

 

[Coyote]

you would know all about mental illness first hand,,

so why are you saying they cant have a gun because they will commit suicide??

I didn't.

 

[2aguy]

Crime went up in St Louis, MO when the same was done here.

You don't know what you are talking about......

As for Everytown’s claims, just take a look at what’s happened in Florida since they “weakened their permitting process” in 1987. From 1988 to 2019, the state’s homicide rate declined from 11.1 to 5.2 per 100,000; a drop of more than 50%. Similarly, overall violent crime rates fell from a whopping 1,117.7 in 1988 to 378.4 in 2019. At the same time, the number of Floridians with concealed carry licenses grew from 0 to nearly 2,000,000.

Arizona adopted Constitutional Carry in 2010, and since then its homicide rate has fallen from 6.4 to 5.0 per 100,000. In Kansas the homicide rate has declined from 4.3 to 3.6 per 100k in the first three years that the law was in place. During that same time period, murders in “may issue” Maryland rose from 8.0 to 9.0 per 100k.

Houston Mayor Misleads On Constitutional Carry

bearingarms.com

 

[Coyote]

They do? So all of the people I know who committed suicide by drugs were the exception?

The only thing relative about you is the the fact that you are relatively stupid.

He is right you know. Most suicide attempts with drugs fail. Most with guns are successful.

Suicide statistics

Learn the latest statistics on suicide. Data on suicide are taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data & Statistics Fatal Injury Report for 2018, as of March 1, 2020. Suicide rates listed are Age-Adjusted Rates.

afsp.org

In 2019, firearms accounted for 50.39% of all suicide deaths.

Florida had a 3-day waiting period. It performed no function except waste gasoline.

You know this how?

 

[Stann]

I stand corrected on the rates, but my point still stands concerning suicides and gun ownership.

there is no correlation; you are mixing apples and oranges when comparing US and Japanese suicide rates. Guns matter here, they are not a factor in Japan.

 

[Gracie]

I should move to texas. Alas.........

 

[rightwinger]

He is right you know. Most suicide attempts with drugs fail. Most with guns are successful.

With drugs, you have an hour to change your mind
With a gun, you have a split second to change your mind

 

[M14 Shooter]

cool...now go back to your 2A echochamber moron, since you can't possibly concrie of using very moderate gun control measures to lower suicide rates here.

You cannot demonstrate that any of the resritction syou seek for the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms by the law abiding will do anything to reduce suicide rates .

 

[M14 Shooter]

I don't hate guns and I'm a gun owner. I just hate psychopathic gun nuts like you who oppose any restrictions whatsoever, no matter what.

I oppose unnecessary and ineffective restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms by the law abiding.
Don't you?

 

[M14 Shooter]

I didn't say all guns,,,

You said:
"That's why no one should have access to weapons capable of killing many in just minutes."
Every mass shooting ever committed in the US -- except one -- could have been equally perpetrated with a pump-action shotgun - or a revolver.
Thus, you want to ban all guns.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Any weapon enabling suicide or murder.

Knives. Baseball bats. Automobiles.
Right?

 

[M14 Shooter]

Most attempts without guns fail.

This only means people who choose a gun are committing to dying.
Thus, the absence of a gun will not keep them alive.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Huh. It happens all over America. Its not new.

And it's not an issue.

 

[M14 Shooter]

These items are necessary and not as destructive as guns.

Ah.
This means you lied when you said "any weapon".
Why do you need to lie to make a point?

 

[M14 Shooter]

Every pro-gun argument can be used as pro-Fentanyl argument.

^^^^
This is an outright lie.

 

[M14 Shooter]

You’re the typical dishonest, willfully ignorant conservative.

Speaking of dishonest...
Tell us why you refuse to agree the TX abortion law is constitutional

 

[M14 Shooter]

Neither progressives nor liberals support the ‘killing’ of children.

^^^
This is a lie.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

He is right you know. Most suicide attempts with drugs fail. Most with guns are successful.

Suicide statistics

Learn the latest statistics on suicide. Data on suicide are taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data & Statistics Fatal Injury Report for 2018, as of March 1, 2020. Suicide rates listed are Age-Adjusted Rates.

afsp.org

In 2019, firearms accounted for 50.39% of all suicide deaths.


You know this how?

I lived in Florida!