Many people need to own guns for different reasons; hunting or protecting the chickens etc for examples. I learned from a hunter that it’s not all about the kill. Depending on the season he used a shotgun and crossbow. I doubt Dems want to take those kinds of weapons away. They need to communicate that.
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Let me see if I understand the Republican position using the car analogy. Licensing drivers is the first step to banning cars all together.
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WaPo, this is a surprise to me
Shootings never stopped during the pandemic: 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades
Shooting deaths in 2020 outpaced the next-highest recent year, 2017, by more than 3,600. The rise resembles other alarming trends: Last year, the United States saw the highest one-year increase in homicides since it began keeping records, with the country’s largest cities suffering a 30 percent spike. Gunshot injuries also rose dramatically, to nearly 40,000, over 8,000 more than in 2017.
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Maybe we should require militia training for each person buying a gun to fit within the parameters of the Second Amendment
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OMG, then forced to take public transportation, biking or walking.
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I saw that and realized it makes sense. Not many mass shootings, but people have been confined with others in close spaces. Tensions boil up and sometimes explode. Of course the statistic doesn’t even take suicides into account. Those are up as well.
Remember mass shootings are small potatoes in the scheme of things. Gun violence is still mostly something people do to family members and others they know and love. Mass killings and the killing of strangers are small subsets of the real problem.
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I’m fairly certain that 2021 will be worse. Gun sales have been setting all time records last year and into this year… More guns = more shootings.
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Well, its probably worth noting that Boulder had a law that would have stopped this guy from buying his specific gun, but the NRA just got it overturned like 2 week ago.
https://abc13.com/gun-control-laws-boulder-colorado-shooting-mass-in/10444684/
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FIRST off…muzzle Ted Cruz…that putz screaming ‘we see the same old thing…’ and then riff on some garbage…yes Ted we DO see the same old thing and it’s your ‘outrage’ and lies.
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Unfortunately, the ammo-theists don’t skip over the phrase “well regulated.” Instead, they make the case that at the time of the writing of the amendment, regulated actually meant “trained.” I don’t know enough about the grammar and dictionary definitions of the English language at the end of the 1700’s to know if this is correct or just another BS revisionist tactic.
If this is true, and if they insist on using the historically accurate language in the text, then it seems they should also be on board with being historically accurate with the types of firearms available at the time of the writing, thereby restricting 2nd Amendment rights to single shot, black powder muzzle loaders. Heh. I know. Silly me.
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On everything.
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Even if that ban was in place, what would have stopped him from going to the next county? City by city, county by county, state by state, it’s not going to work.
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Add mandatory insurance per weapon too.
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Back in the beginning of March 2020 when St Louis City and County went into lock down for the first time shootings in the city and north St. Louis county dropped dramatically. But before the lockdown was lifted in April it had started up again, and then made up for lost time.
As @ronbyers says people being confined causes tension, and domestic partner abuse also picked up.
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Better yet, repeal the special legal immunity for gun manufacturers:
What is uncommon about PLCAA, however, is that it provides blanket immunity to an industry, as opposed to some specific industry conduct. Never before had Congress granted a single industry such extensive legal protection — nor has it done so since. The tobacco, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, for example, have all faced lawsuits alleging that their products caused irreparable harm to the general public. In each instance, legal battles have triggered significant industry-wide changes.
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Yes. Scalia, writing the SCOTUS decision for Heller, noted in passing that nothing in the 2nd Amendment prohibits regulation of guns. Why the absolutists seem to have persuaded people otherwise has been a frustrating mystery to me for a long time.
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Absolutely! And make sure that liability goes back to sellers, whether commercial or private.
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Yes. Lummis is out there skiiing the Slippery Slope.
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Those are the deaths that you don’t see reported nationally. One realized when the mass shootings started again, how we’d had a break from it all, except, now I know from the WaPo article killings have been going full speed ahead. So damn depressing.
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Especially as the words “well regulated” appear – whether we are talking weapons or individuals, regulations were the intent of the Founders. Period.
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