Discussion for article #225695
She’s not holding a gun herself - so she’s clearly asking to be shot in the face.
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Really not sure this is that effective - it seems to walk right into the NRA argument that everyone should have a gun, she’d have been able to defend herself! (To be clear: that argument is insane, don’t jump all over me as if I’m supporting it.)
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(NRA Troll ignores qualifying statement anyway, jumps all over your grill.)
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This horrific scenario is played out across the country on a terrible scale. This is the kind of reality ads that should be running in every state. And the Dems hierarchy should consider hiring the company who made it to create some hard-hitting, reality-based ads for liberal candidates to defeat the teabagger demagogues in House and Senate races and do it now!
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I just want to say hi before you’re banned later this week.
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Yeah, I think the more compelling arguments could be made with ads that show little kids exploring a house until one of them finds a gun and graphically blows the other child’s chest wide open, or one where someone is out shopping and then suddenly gets shot in the femur when the customer down the aisle drops his firearm. Or one where a little girl is sitting with her favorite stuffed animal, before being hit in the head with a bullet that unexpectedly comes through the ceiling from the apartment above.
Actually, I would hate to see these commercials and would change the channel if one came on while I was watching TV. But I guess that’s the point. Too many people live their convenient, daily lives without having to be confronted with the truth about the horrors of gun violence.
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FIFY
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The NRA feels that there would be less domestic violence (and tooth decay) if everyone had a gun. Of course there probably would be more domestic deaths.
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Adding to the “it would be more effective if…” theme. He breaks in, she rushes to the top shelf of the closet to get her pistol, he slaps it out of her hand and we watch the gun flying to the floor in slow motion as the screen goes dark.
Ending #1: Sound of gun firing and she screams “Oh my God…No!”
Ending #2: Sound of gun firing and the boy screams “Mom!”
Overlay of statistics of domestic abuse cases where the victim is killed or injured by their own gun.
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In 2001 after years of abuse my sister filed for divorce against her husband. There was a restraining order against him and numerous police reports of domestic violence. The next day he went to mallmart bought a gun and bullets. He went to her house and shot her 3 times then shot himself in head. My mom was there at the time. She came into the room in time to hold my sister as she twitched her last before she died. In an instant 4 kids were orphaned.
Suffice it to say that those kids to this day relive that awful day when the police came to their schools to pick them up and take them to the police station and see their grandmother covered in their mother’s blood and were told that both their parents were dead. On top of that their dad was responsible for all this.
I do not understand why this has not been the law for a long time. But then there was suppose to be 3 day waiting period then too look how well that worked. I only wonder how many families like mine will it take to reach critical mass so that it is no longer easier to buy a gun or guns than it is to get a driver’s licence or to vote.
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annnnnddd…
POOF!
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In general you’re right, but this bill is specifically about denying guns to abusers under a restraining order. Since it’s Klobuchar’s bill, I’m going to guess it’s similar to the law just taking effect in Minnesota. It even got a bunch of Republican votes, but not much longer I assume before the gun lobby cracks down.
They’re gonna get letters.