Choosing a Gun

[boxy]

I think you need to eat your crayons boxy. You are all over the shop.

They taste like shit... but please, do go on, and I'll consider it.

[boxy]

"I suggest we put a teacher in every gun store"

[Rorschach]

Excerpts...

Huffington Post lists the 100 shot dead in week since Sandy Hook as NRA calls for armed cops in every school
* From: AAP
* December 23, 2012 7:20AM

IN a shocking expose of gun violence in America, The Huffington Post has compiled a list of every US shooting death since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on December 14.

That act of violence claimed the lives of 26 people, including 20 innocent children, at a school in Connecticut.

The Huffington Post reports that the night after Sandy Hook, a gunman pulled behind a car in Kansas City and opened fire, striking a 4-year-old boy in the head.

"He was innocent and he was just lifeless," a bystander said. "All my life I’ve never seen nothing so devastating."

This week doctors declared the boy brain dead.

In the week following the Sandy Hook massacre, bodies were found inside a vacant house, at a car wash, and in a corner store. They were also discovered on a bike trail, in a backyard, inside the front office of a motel, and in a Chevy pickup, the website reports. All of the bodies had one thing in common: they died from gunshots wounds.

The Huffington Post spent this week tracking gun-related homicides and accidents throughout the US, and logged more than 100 from Google and Nexis searches. It says there were more than twice that many homicides alone in an average week in 2010.

The deaths included murder-suicides, and ranged from babies through to grandparents.

The US gun lobby has called for armed protection of schools after the Sandy Hook massacre.

On Saturday afternoon, a 3-year-old in Oklahoma died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a gun he found inside his aunt and uncle's house. His uncle is an Oklahoma state trooper.

"Nobody should have to go through something like that," a resident said.

Paul Sampleton Jr., 14, was bound and shot in his Georgia townhome on Wednesday afternoon. His father found him in the kitchen. Police suspect a robbery motive, the website reports.

"He was smiling, listening to music," a friend told a local reporter. "He got on his bus, I got on mine. We were all happy."

The list goes on.

"In the days since the heartbreaking tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, hundreds of thousands of you, from all 50 states, signed petitions asking us to take serious steps to address the epidemic of gun violence in this country," Mr Obama said in an online video on Friday. "We hear you."

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," declared NRA vice-president Wayne LaPierre, in the group's first reaction since last week's massacre of 26 children and staff in an elementary school.

"I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," he said, in a lengthy statement. He took no questions from reporters.

Democratic congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York called the NRA's response "both ludicrous and insulting'' and pointed out that armed personnel at Columbine High School in Colorado and the Fort Hood Army post in Texas could not stop mass shootings.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the NRA is blaming everyone but itself for a national gun crisis and is offering "a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe''.

"The NRA leadership's drive to fill our schools with more deadly guns and ammo is wildly out of touch with responsible gun owners and the American public,'' New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg said.

America has suffered an epidemic of gun violence over the last three decades including 62 mass shooting incidents since 1982. The vast majority of weapons used have been semi-automatic weapons obtained legally by the killers.

There were an estimated 310 million non-military firearms in the United States in 2009, roughly one per citizen, and people in America are 20 times more likely to be killed by a gun than someone in another developed country.

"The NRA leadership's drive to fill our schools with more deadly guns and ammo is wildly out of touch with responsible gun owners and the American public," New Jersey's Senator Frank Lautenberg said on Twitter.

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[boxy]

As you sow, so shall ye reap.

[IQS.RLOW]

I'd like to see a similar thing here except in universities and they can use the lefty student and academics for target practice.

It's not like they will be missed...

[boxy]

lol. I knew your heart wasn't in it.

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National Rifle Association. Obama has been taking up the restriction of fully and some semi-automatic weapons (pretty much military type machine guns, aka bushmasters). It seems that the NRA may go along with this, probably in an attempt to safeguard most of their other gun rights.

Seems that they've changed their minds... they're obviously quite happy with the status quo, with the exception that there arn't enough minimum wage guys with guns in elementary schools at the moment

[IQS.RLOW]

In a society with an entrenched gun culture and ownership, eradication is nothing but a typical leftwing response that has no hope of succeeding or achieving anything.

The NRA response to having armed personnel has been the only logical solution put forward by anyone.

Meanwhile, the left will be hoping for the next child massacre that occurs using hand guns and non-assault type weapons so they can further erode the rights of law abiding citizens at the expense of childrens bodies

[boxy]

In a society with an entrenched gun culture and ownership, eradication is nothing but a typical leftwing response that has no hope of succeeding or achieving anything.

Little Johnny, now relegated to the "typical leftwing"... you heard it here first.

[IQS.RLOW]

Nice try but no banana.
Australia has never had an entrenched gun culture or ownership.