Semi-Auto Gun Ban (Part 2)
The number of well-publicized public shootings during the past few years, especially the tragedy at Columbine High School, has re-energized the gun control movement. As a show of strength, a coalition of gun control groups has organized a “Million Mom March” to be held in Washington, DC on Mother’s Day, an event designed to stir up emotions rather than promote rational thought. And when one looks at the facts about gun control, it’s easy to see why the anti-gun lobby relies on emotion rather than logic to make its case. Think you know the facts about gun control? If your only source of information is the mainstream media, what you think you know may not be correct. Take the quiz below and test your knowledge. David Lampo is the publications director at the Cato Institute. 1. Thousands of children die annually in gun accidents. False. Gun accidents involving children are actually at record lows, although you wouldn’t know it from listening to the mainstream media. In 1997, the last year for which data are available, only 142 children under 15 years of age died in gun accidents, and the total number of gun-related deaths for this age group was 642. More children die each year in accidents involving bikes, space heaters or drownings. The often repeated claim that 12 children per day die from gun violence includes “children” up to 20 years of age, the great majority of whom are young adult males who die in gang-related violence. 2. Gun shows are responsible for a large number …
July 31st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
@CarbineKingClassic Dumbass, fire is hot, what happens to metal when it gets hot? I weakens. That is why a STEEL TOWER fell. Get your hippie liberal 9/11 consperacies out of here.
July 31st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Epic ownage by the NRA rep haha
July 31st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@SomethingNewEveryDay
It’s not about that. Governments want more control over their citizens. Armed civilians are a threat for bad governments.
July 31st, 2010 at 4:52 pm
this happend to great britain look whats happend!!!!!!
July 31st, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Join the next rally! July 17, 2010: Maryland Shall Issue Rallies For Self Defense In Annapolis. From 12:00 p.m. (noon) until 6:00 p.m., an Open Holster Rally will take place on the waterfront in downtown Annapolis
The event, sponsored by Maryland Shall Issue, seeks to publicize the unequal granting of permits as overwhelmingly granted to politically connected and wealthy individuals, while most others are denied permits.
July 31st, 2010 at 5:53 pm
FUK CNN i stopped watching TV because of these morons. I am not drinking their koolaide. Now i get all my news off the internet. Love live the right to bear arms. I don’t want to live in a Hitler state.
July 31st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
we have a terrorist for a president and your telling me to put down my AR 15. fuck you CNN.
July 31st, 2010 at 6:55 pm
who cares about the chinese ones. we care about the romanian ones
July 31st, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Gotta love it when the media’s lies are exposed.
July 31st, 2010 at 7:48 pm
@TheGunsDoKillPeople
Oh, one more thing. Guns are objects. They require PEOPLE to function. The butter knives in my kitchen are 100 times more likely to hurt/kill a loved one than a criminal. Should I get rid of all of them too?
July 31st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
@TheGunsDoKillPeople
Oh no! I have 10 guns, so now theres a 430 time better chance I might acidentally shoot someone I know and love? I guess I better get rid of all of them!!
Idiot.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Fuck CNN, pussy liberals, for that matter all liberals too. Come and get our guns, you can have them one bullet at a time… be it the government or any other group who thinks they will be able to do it.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:36 pm
@Zen5012
I looked but couldnt find one. But the bigger issue which needs to be asked is why if guns make america safer does the USA have the highest rate of gun violence in the industrialized world? (see search for “the general culture of the united states” in a book review called The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States LOOK THROUGH GOOGLE SCHOLAR) – talks about hte combination of guns and a culture of fear.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:52 pm
@TheGunsDoKillPeople “when idiots keep them where young kids can get them then yes” otherwise no ya see it depends on how RESPONSIBLE the gun owner is. Simple as that. pleas comment back to see what you think of my statement. lol more like fact.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:43 pm
@oetwriting
Bullshit. Please provide a reference for your assertion.
July 31st, 2010 at 11:35 pm
@TheGunsDoKillPeople
Please provide a reference to your numbers. If you are working off the Kellerman Study, I would have to ask if you have every actually READ it.
Again, please provide a reference.
August 1st, 2010 at 12:35 am
A gun in the house is 43 times more likely to kill an innocent loved one/victim than to murder a criminal.
August 1st, 2010 at 12:39 am
@TheGunsDoKillPeople “when seconds count the police are only minutes away”
August 1st, 2010 at 12:49 am
@TheGunsDoKillPeople so they can find you dead body after they come 5 min later.
August 1st, 2010 at 1:16 am
criton you are wrong. Most americans who are killed in their own homes are killed with their own guns.
If someone enters your house e.g. to rob it, you are safer if you dont own a gun because of this.
August 1st, 2010 at 1:56 am
by the way, i know your a fake and just making gun control look bad, so for that, thanks
August 1st, 2010 at 2:08 am
he isn’t a liberal, nor is he against gun control. hes faking it to make himself/gun control look like a bad idea. thats why he ignores you
August 1st, 2010 at 2:13 am
hes a conservative, hes faking to be against guns to make himself/gun control look stupid. thats why he doesn’t argue back
August 1st, 2010 at 3:07 am
when i hear a criminal in my house, and he heres the shotgun go click, i hear him running for the fucking hills. NO COPS NEEDED, they would have taken 15 minutes anyways, it only takes 2 minutes to steal my shit and kill me
August 1st, 2010 at 3:26 am
You’re a coward who is afraid to debate like a civilized person, and I get that. Thanks for being your own worst detractor. Fortunately, you’re a very limited MINORITY in this country. Want to come over and shoot some clay pigeons?