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I heard on the television news this morning that a man in North Carolina was shot in the head at a July 4 celebration; authorities believe the bullet probably came from someone who fired a gun in the air to âcelebrateâ the holiday. The man is alive, but paralyzed on one side, and what the extent of his permanent injuries will be is not yet known.
Last year (or maybe the year before), a small boy was injured in the same way here in the Richmond area. That child died, unfortunately.
What is it going to take to make these idiots realize that those bullets do not disappear into thin air? They come down, and they come down at high velocity and are capable of doing grave injury to someone.
Where? Chicago? Donât they have there all those sensible anti gun rules that the Democrats claim will stop gun violence altogether? Or at least reduce it? Whatâs missing here?
ââPeople ask me what the difference is between New York and Chicago and itâs the proliferation of firearms,â Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy (said).â
Silly Police Superitendent McCarthy! Obviously he doesnât listen to the NRA when they say that there werenât enough guns in Chicago.
âItâs ground hog day in Chicago. People ask me what the difference is between New York and Chicago and itâs the proliferation of firearms,â Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy (pictured, left) said according to Chicagoâs WLS on Monday.
Yeah, plus New York is not bordering with lax gun laws States like Chicago doesâŚOh wait!!!
Well, then, Libs, obviously there should be no gun laws at all. Thatâll stop the shootings, for sure. (This is me, thinking like a typically bizarro-world, NRA-lovinâ conservative gun nut.)
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So, Libs, you actually think gun laws are good. Maybe you could enlighten us.
First, Libs/Beej/EG, nobody ever claimed any law would âstop gun violence altogether.â Straw-man argument, bub. Too bad you donât have an ignorant audience here that would fall for that one. Second, the murder rate is headed down in Chicago. Whatâs missing is your effort to make yourself aware of that, or pretty much anything.
And people in the US are scared to travel in Mexico because of the cartels? I think the best way to stop the flow of immigration from Mexico and Central America would be to broadcast in Spanish all the wingnut killings and random shootings from here in the US. It would show there are things worse than poverty.
One of those murdered was shot in front of my home while I was watching television in my living room, probably 50 ft. away. By the time I made it to my window less than 15 seconds later no one was there. The victim managed to drive his car down the road for about half a mile before he alerted a police officer about two blocks from the mayorâs house.
There are no heroin stores in the United States, but the little plastic packets I find on the sidewalk tells me there is plenty of it being sold in my neighborhood. Chicago is surrounded by over 400 gun stores in Cook and the collar counties. http://www.citylab.com/crime/2012/08/where-chicagos-guns-come/3090/
No gun laws - either more restrictive or more lax like those in Georgia - is going to fix this problem. There is something seriously wrong with this country. We have a bizarre fetish that sees guns and violence as a solution to problems. Itâs reflected in our foreign policy where certain people believe the answer is to bomb which ever country we are in dispute with - Iran, Syria, ISIS, Iraq, the Ukraine. This trickles down to the street where answer is also âmight make right.â
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You are absolutely right for the most part. Unfortunately, for a few of us killing others is the only solution to the problem they are having, and no gun laws will change that mentality. Remove the guns, they will use something else to murder and maim. Not sure itâs an American âfetishâ only. Take Russia for instance where gun laws are very restrictive: Russian population is less than half of America but Russia has twice the homicide numbers than America.