Why Gun Control Is Patriotic

[YALE]

Why do they let any dolt frequentist write articles these days?

[Forever_frost]

And can anyone pick me out of the comment section?

[SouthernSVT]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay...b_1691909.html

In the wake of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado, it is time to take a long, hard look at the role of guns in our society. This is not about politics but about pure common sense....

...The liberals would say that it is the NRA and the gun industry, who make it absurdly easy to secure assault weapons in the United States, including over the Internet. The conservatives in turn would say that it is not guns but people who do the killing. Literally speaking they are correct, but if the essence of what the conservatives claim is true, then the reason we have crazy massacres in this country is because Americans are a bunch of homicidal maniacs with no impulse control; and if that part is true, then should we really allow this same crackpot citizenry to carry firearms? You see the problem?...

...One thing that I do agree with conservatives on is that violence does not stem from any one factor alone, including guns. ...

...The deaths of innocent people should never be a political issue or even an ideological one,...

He seems to be confused about the meaning of the word "politics".

[Forever_frost]

Adding six more shooters in the situation probably wouldn't have helped anything....Assuming there was little visibility.

Not true. If someone had returned fire, he'd probably have fled. He didn't want to get hurt, that's why he surrendered to cops. He went into a gun free zone, in a gun free town armed to cause casualties. Cops opening fire on him would have stopped him cold.

[SouthernSVT]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

[Craizie]

LEt's see: Cops firing at someone who is emptying weapons into a crowd, or them hiding....


But to answer his question, cops have no requirement they serve or protect. Supreme Court said.

Adding six more shooters in the situation probably wouldn't have helped anything....Assuming there was little visibility.

[01yz2nv]

I agree, we shouldnt have high capacity clips, its hard enough loading 5 rnd clips in my mosin, I cant imagine a 30 rnd clip haha!

[Venix]

This man is ignorant. A lack of firearm education (read fear) is no reason to punish everyone else.

[Nash B.]

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

Stevo

Ah, Thomas Jefferson. What a paranoid nutcase!

The belief that we need to stockpile guns of every kind to protect us from our own government is a sign of deep paranoia and madness.

[Forever_frost]

He threw a smoke grenade, correct? You want the six cops to just start popping off rounds in his general direction? Think of the FTP thread that would start....

LEt's see: Cops firing at someone who is emptying weapons into a crowd, or them hiding....


But to answer his question, cops have no requirement they serve or protect. Supreme Court said.

[Craizie]

I read that there were six cops there. I would surmise that the majority always carry a weapon, even when they're off duty. Guys, validation on this?

Why did none of the six not return fire? Also read three boyfriends died trying to protect their girlfriends. Maybe those guys should have had the six guns in attendance...

And granted, we don't have the stories of those six, but why in hell didn't one out of six step up and say hey...

He threw a smoke grenade, correct? You want the six cops to just start popping off rounds in his general direction? Think of the FTP thread that would start....

[mikec]

I read that there were six cops there. I would surmise that the majority always carry a weapon, even when they're off duty. Guys, validation on this?

Why did none of the six not return fire? Also read three boyfriends died trying to protect their girlfriends. Maybe those guys should have had the six guns in attendance...

And granted, we don't have the stories of those six, but why in hell didn't one out of six step up and say hey...

[Vanner27]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay...b_1691909.html

owning a dozen high-powered assault weapons with high-capacity clips.

Proof that whoever wrote that has no clue what the hell they are talking about.

[Broncojohnny]

I'm not interested in another liberal idea to "fix" society.

[stinginstang]

how about Batman control or Joker control? They seem to have played a role in this too. Maybe we should limit the violence in movies and video games. After that we can limit hate speech.