More Great Second Amendment Moments from America

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AURAPTOR

Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:10 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
keep telling yourself that it's all okay.....

I'm fine w/ it.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, January 30, 2015 1:39 AM

That's sad.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, February 2, 2015 12:52 AM

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A three-year-old US boy shot and wounded his father and pregnant mother with a 9mm handgun that he pulled out of the woman's purse while searching for an iPad, police in New Mexico said on Sunday.

Both parents needed hospital treatment for non-life threatening injuries after the bullet went through his father's buttocks and into his mother's shoulder, Albuquerque Police Department Officer Simon Drobik said.

The woman, who is eight months pregnant, was being kept at the hospital for observation.

The father has been released, said Mr Drobik, who was the first to arrive at the scene of the incident at an Albuquerque motel on Saturday afternoon.

"On the kid's side, it's a horrible accident that happened, but the parents are still culpable," he said. "They should have secured the gun."

The couple could face felony negligence charges, he added.

The woman told police she bought the gun the day before the incident, Mr Drobik said. The man is not legally allowed to have a firearm because he has previously been convicted of a felony crime.

The family, including a two-year-old girl and the children's grandmother, had been living in an America's Best Value Inn for about a week with their two pit bulls when the incident occurred.

Following the shooting, the children were placed with child protective services. The dogs were taken by animal control staff.

The incident in New Mexico on the weekend follows the December shooting of a woman by her two-year-old son in an Idaho Walmart.

In August last year, a nine-year-old girl accidentally shot an instructor dead with a machine-gun at a shooting range near Las Vegas as her parents stood by filming the incident.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/toddler-3-shoots-father-and-preg
nant-mother-at-new-mexico-motel-20150201-133fx3.html

CAVETROLL

Monday, February 23, 2015 11:42 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Don't believe rocket launhcers are permissible for home defense, dearie

Home defense against what? Jackbooted thugs serving a search warrant on the wrong address? Yep, totally appropriate.

For the record, A rocket grenade launcher is considered a destructive device. It requires a $200 tax stamp for the launcher and a $200 tax stamp for each explosive round. Which is how Hollyweird seems to have a never-ending supply of RPG-7s for them to continue glorifying weapon ownership and making oodles of cash to pay their stars. And the stars can then tell you how bad guns are and how they should be made illegal.

You get the delicious contradiction, right?

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

- Ronald Reagan

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Saturday, April 25, 2015 1:57 PM

Las Vegas police are looking for a man suspected of shooting a woman to death after an alleged road rage incident.

Tammy Meyers, a 44-year-old mother of four, died at the weekend from a gunshot wound.

She was taken off life support two days after being shot late on Thursday night.

Police released a video of the suspect's vehicle driving down a street and also released a composite sketch of the suspect, a white male about 25 years old.

The vehicle may have bullet damage, police said.

Ms Meyers was at the wheel after giving her daughter a driving lesson at a school parking lot when she had a near-collision with another vehicle, said the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in a news release.

There was a verbal confrontation between the two drivers.

When Ms Meyers and her daughter returned home, they summoned help from a family member armed with a handgun as her car was apparently followed, police said.

When the other vehicle arrived at the residence, shots were fired and the woman was struck, police said.

"There was no excuse, no reason and I hope to God they know we're looking and they will be caught," Ms Meyers' cousin, Susan Ramos, said at a press conference.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/road-rage-manhunt-after-mother-of-
four-dies/ar-BBhDXgS?ocid=obau1

SHINYGOODGUY

Monday, April 27, 2015 11:49 AM

No, not a tragic accident.
She left the safety off. Now that I call a stupid move.

SGG

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Tragic accident, but that's all it was. More folks die of misusing their cars than their guns.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Saturday, June 20, 2015 3:42 AM

Charlston.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/us/the-charleston-shooting-what-happ
ened.html?_r=0

Gotta say that kid looks like I'd imagine a ultra right winger from the south

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Saturday, June 20, 2015 3:50 AM

Even as Charleston was coming to grips with the atrocity committed in one of its churches the evening before, the hometown paper thudded onto doorsteps on Thursday morning with an unlikely advertisement affixed to the front page.

The ad, which covered the headline, was spruiking a ladies night at a local gun range.
Advertisement

"$30 gets you everything," it trilled. Everything included "50 rounds of ammo", a "pistol or revolver" and a "range pass" for shooting.

The Post and Courier was quick to apologise for carrying the ad on the day after the murder of nine of the city's citizens, including the pastor and state senator, Reverend Clementa Pinckeny and the arrest of 21 year old suspect Dylann Roof.

But the unfortunate happenstance did serve as a reminder of how pervasive gun culture is in parts of the United States.

This is not an accident. The gun industry and its lobbyists have been successful not only in at defending and extending the right to bear arms, but in normalising the presence and use of lethal weapons.

We see this in the recent spread of so-called "guntry clubs" where people can socialise over a drink at their local club after using the range.
Revolvers sit on display in the Smith & Wesson booth on the exhibition floor of the NRA convention.

We see this in the family fun days advertised at shooting ranges. Normally this activity is safe, but when it is not the results can be horrific, such as in August last year when a nine-year -old girl accidently shot her instructor dead with an Uzi sub machine gun at a Nevada range as her parents filmed the incident on a phone.

We see this in the activities groups like Open Carry Texas, whose members carry military style semi-automatic weapons in restaurants and malls as part of their mission to, "Condition Texans to feel safe around law-abiding citizens that chose to open carry."

It is in this sort of culture where it might be considered appropriate for a parent to buy a handgun as a birthday present for an apparently disturbed young son.

Despite this process of normalisation, the rate of gun ownership in America is dropping, even as the number of guns in the circulation increases.

Only 31 per cent of Americans owned a gun last year, compared with nearly half in 1980.

One of the strongholds of gun ownership in America remains the South, where 38 per cent of adults own a gun, and, according to an analysis by The Washington Post , violence is more likely to occur.

And while the murder rate in America drops in line with overall crime trends, the incidence of mass shootings has increased. According to a Mother Jones analysis mass shootings occurred every 200 days on average between 1982 and 2011, since late 2011, mass shootings have occurred at triple that rate—every 64 days on average.

Each mass shooting prompts further debate over gun laws, though little action, and so far this chain of action and reaction is playing out in the same manner as other recent shootings.

The only difference is things seem to be operating on a slightly faster time frame.

After the Sandy Hook shooting it took a few days for the National Rifle Association's Wayne La Pierre to call for the arming of teachers rather than the disarming of Americans.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with gun," he said in a press conference.

This time around less than 12 hours after the bodies fell hosts and guests on a Fox News breakfast program were making the same point, suggesting that perhaps it would be best if pastors in churches were armed to protect their flock.

At lunch time, angry, stricken and blunt, Barack Obama addressed the nation from the White House and said in part: "Let's be clear, at some point we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.

"It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to

THGRRI

Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:31 AM

It's sick yes and that's how you explain it. The guy is troubled, mental. Combine that with what Jon Stewart says on the subject and you can zero in on what floats this guy's boat.

On a side note It never ceases to amaze me that non-Americans always suggest Americans are self-centered and never pay attention to the rest of the world. Then when it's their turn to speak it's always about America.

Huh

How are you guys making out down under?

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, November 20, 2021 8:20 PM

Joe Biden ‘Angry and Concerned’ by Rittenhouse Jury Verdict, Calls for Peaceful Protests

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/19/joe-biden-angry-concerne
d-rittenhouse-jury-verdict-calls-peaceful-protests/

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