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Subscribe to RSSAfter a week of calls for tighter gun restrictions, the National Rifle Association called for putting more armed security officers in the nation's schools and expressed concerns about violence portrayed in video games, movies and music. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre blamed Hollywood, video games music, the courts and more on Friday for creating a culture of violence in the United States.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he said at a Washington press event, adding, “With all the money in the federal budget can’t we afford to put a police officer in every single school?”
LaPierre made his lengthy statement to the press one week after the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn.
Protesters twice interrupted LaPierre, who will appear this Sunday exclusively on NBC's "Meet the Press," holding signs reading "NRA KILLING OUR KIDS," and screaming that the gun rights group has "blood on its hands."
He said that elected officials had no authority to deny Americans the right and the ability to protect themselves and their families from harm.
And he noted that there are millions of active and retired police officers, military veterans, and private security guards – “an extraordinary corps of patriotic, trained, qualified citizens” – who should devise a protection plan for every 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.
Disbelief in some quarters after NRA urges armed guards in schools
He said that laws that established gun-free school zones have had the effect of telling “every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.”
LaPierre said America has left its schoolchildren “utterly defenseless -- and the monsters and the predators of the world know it and exploit it.”
He criticized Congress for not creating a national database of the mentally ill and called for increased federal prosecution of those who illegally possess guns.
LaPierre did not indicate that the NRA would support any additional restrictions on the sale or possession of guns. He ridiculed the idea that “one more gun ban or one more law imposed on peaceful, lawful people will protect us where 20,000 other laws have failed.”
Meet the Press moderator David Gregory says he will ask the NRA's Wayne LaPierre whether or not he's open to having a broader discussion about gun violence with President Obama.
He assailed the news media which he said had “demonized gun owners.”
And he said “the next Adam Lanza” is “waiting in the wings” and argued that copycat killers are encouraged by “a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave.”
He also criticized the video game industry and Hollywood movie studios for films such as “American Psycho” and “Natural Born Killers.”
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On Wednesday President Barack Obama asked Vice President Joe Biden to lead an effort that includes members of the Cabinet and outside organizations to devise concrete legislative gun restriction proposals by next month, “proposals that I then intend to push without delay,” Obama said.
He said he would “use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies” such as the shootings in Connecticut.
House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said, “When the vice president's recommendations come forward, we'll certainly take them into consideration.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the author of the 1994 ban on certain types of semiautomatic firearms which expired in 2004, announced this week that she will introduce new legislation early next year.
Semiautomatic firearms, including semiautomatic weapons sometimes called “assault weapons,” fire one round per pull of the trigger.
Her bill would outlaw the sale, transfer, importation and manufacture of more than 100 specifically-named firearms as well as certain semiautomatic rifles, handguns and shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Feinstein would also outlaw large-capacity ammunition magazines capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
Her measure would also “grandfather” weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment and exempt more than 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting and sporting purposes, according to a statement from her office on Monday.
The number of murders committed with guns has declined sharply in the past 20 years.
The rate of firearms-related murders in 2011 was 3.2 per 100,000 people. In 1993 the rate of firearms-related murders was 6.6 per 100,000 people. The number of firearms-related murder victims dropped from more than 17,000 in 1993 to 9,903 in 2011.
Yet the shootings in Connecticut have raised the possibility that Congress might enact restrictive legislation that would incorporate the 1994 ban as well as measures to increase funding for treatment of mentally ill people.
It is not yet clear what specific legislation, in addition to Feinstein’s bill, will be proposed in Congress and which measures Obama would throw his weight behind.
He did say during the second debate with his Republican opponent Mitt Romney that he wanted to see “if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. But part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence. Because frankly, in my home town of Chicago, there's an awful lot of violence and they're not using AK-47s. They're using cheap hand guns.”
He added, “What I want is a comprehensive strategy. Part of it is seeing if we can get automatic weapons that kill folks in amazing numbers out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. But part of it is also going deeper and seeing if we can get into these communities and making sure we catch violent impulses before they occur.”
The outcome of legislative efforts in the Senate may well be determined by Democratic senators from states where there’s strong support for the rights of gun owners.
Following the school shooting tragedy in Newtown, Conn., Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, says "vicious, violent video games" like "Mortal Combat" and "GTA," along with "blood-soaked films" like "Natural Born Killers," "bring criminal cruelty into our homes each and every day."
Sen. Joe Manchin, D- W.W., who was just re-elected in November, has given mixed signals on his readiness to support restrictions on semiautomatic weapons.
Manchin said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday that, “I’m a proud NRA member and always have been. But we need to sit down and move this dialogue to a sensible, reasonable approach…. I don`t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. I don`t know anybody that needs 30 rounds in a clip to go hunting.”
But two days later in an interview with West Virginia talk radio host Hoppy Kercheval, Manchin seemed to edge away from his statement on Monday. Manchin said he was “not supporting a ban on anything. I'm supporting a conversation on everything."
When Kercheval asked Manchin if he regretted what he’d said on Morning Joe. "I'm saying it more articulate today," Manchin replied.
In addition to Manchin and another centrist Democrat, senator-elect Joe Donnelly of Indiana who has received NRA backing in past elections, there are half dozen Democratic senators up for re-election in 2014 who represent states that are more protective of gun owners’ rights, for example, Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, and Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska.
A long-dormant national conversation about guns has reignited: some are calling for an assault weapons ban while other feel guns themselves aren't the root of the problem. So far the shootings have sparked several gun buy-back programs and even an anti-gun video organized by big-city mayors – but the NRA says it's the entertainment industry that is partly to blame. NBC's John Yang reports.
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Our schools have had armed guards since 911 !! This kind of shooting will never happen here !!! This is a horrible tragedy but the it's even more sad that it could have been prevented. Armed teachers or hired armed security is the only answer !!!
I have taught, might again in the future, but I will NEVER EVER accept a teaching position that will require me to train on a weapon, shoot a weapon at another human being, or require I carry a gun around children. The whole premiss is wrong from beginnning to end. We select teachers to teach no to be an extended swat team.
Sir, you are an ass!
How can anyone of these pro gun people and congressmen live with themselves when they won't even consider the option of gun control and banning these assault weapons? They say it's not a gun problem it's a people problem and they WANT more guns out there? They are so irresponsible to not want a conversation about these weapons that are so unnecessary for anyone person to have in there home.
In this instance a mentally challenged person was taught to shoot these weapons by his mother whom then decided that maybe she should commit him. She was suppose to be a responsible GUN OWNER. And you want more people like her having weapons so they can protect our young and other bad people?????
Everything needs to considered and looked at!!! This country is looking more like a 3rd world country with their idiotic belief system. More guns? That's absolutely so ridiculous!!!!!! It's not even logical!!!
So how are we going to pay for an armed guard in every classroom? Tax the hell out of guns and ammo? Make gun owners pay for the protection our schools need from crazed gun nuts.
I'm worried that a suicidal nutcase won't be overly concerned with the added tax on a weapon.
I was thinking along the lines of a $500 tax per bullet and $500 million tax per gun.
If people like you paid taxes instead of just taking money perhaps we would have enough funds for everything. This insane murderer was part of the 47% percent like you.
This is our problem, we are a culture that blames and makes excuses. Enough already, let's resolve the problem. Pointing fingers at the obvious isn't going to get results.
AJP,
You win the prize!!!!! The most sensible thing posted today.
Its SO EASY to point fingers!
In reality, banning or not banning guns won't make a difference. I am SORRY Mr. LaPierre, but video games and movies are NOT going to turn a rational adult into a murderer. The fact of the matter remains that the people who shoot up schools simply are not mentally stable.
The fact of the matter is that he should have gotten HELP. People need to stop thinking "its a phase" or that they don't want to cause a scene. I'm TIRED of people refusing to intervene in a downward spiral simply because they're afraid of controversy, or "its not my business." As a society we are responsible for each other. Would you pass by a woman getting beaten on the street? If you have a family member who you THINK needs help - whether they might hurt themselves or others - then for God's sake say something!
The focus shouldn't be on fighting over possessions, it should be on recognizing the warning signs of someone with this kind of instability.
If guns are bad, how come:
All high politicians – including Dear Leader and Gauleiter Bloomberg – are surrounded by heavily armed guards?
There is never a mass shooting at a police station?
There is virtually no “gun crime” in Switzerland, even though the Swiss are armed to the teeth, with full-auto military combat rifles in the hands of nearly every adult male between the ages of 18 and 45?
Guns save so many lives each year – including most recently the lives of numerous potential victims of a mass shooting in Oregon at the Clackamas Town Center Mall, where concealed carry permit holder Nick Meli confronted armed killer Jacob Tyler Roberts – who had already shot two people dead … and prevented him from shooting more people dead?
Rural areas tend to have high concentrations of guns relative to urban areas – yet “gun crime” is inexorably higher in urban areas while it is almost nonexistent in the rural areas?
Concealed carry permit holders are less likely to be involved in an unjustified (non-defensive) shooting than a cop?
The Obama administration “walked” 2,000 high-powered rifles to Mexican drug cartels?
Some advocates of “sensible” gun control argue that no one needs – take your pick – a semi-automatic pistol or rifle (which means virtually all pistols and rifles that aren’t single-shot Derringers and bolt-action rifles) or a “high capacity” magazine or a weapon over a certain caliber or which has a certain “threatening” (to some) appearance – even if its function is identical to a rifle with a “less menacing” appearance.
Well, who really needs more than $50,000 a year to live on? Or more than an 800 sq. foot dwelling? Does anyone need more car than is sufficient to get from A to B at the posted speed limit? Who really needs anything beyond the bare minimum necessary to maintain one’s physical existence?
Who needs to live to be older than 80? Who needs to have more than one kid?
Do you really need a 40 ounce drink? Or more than one drink of soda per day?
How many calories per day does a person need?
Oh, but guns are different!
Not really. And the principle behind the argument is identical.
If need is to become the justification for allowing us to do (or posses) things, then we are already enslaved in our minds – and soon will be enslaved physically and utterly.
From each according to his abilities… to each according to his needs.
This famous statement is left hanging. The need is never qualified.
Need – according to whom?
Inevitably, need will be defined by those who wield power. And if it is accepted that firearms ownership should be restricted based on need – as opposed to something someone has actually done – the restrictions will not end with guns.
That is the principle at stake here:
Needs – vs. rights.
In a free society, the individual’s natural right to decide for himself what his needs are is respected – and codified into law. You may think the guy next door is an idiot for living in a 4,000 sq. foot home when it’s just him and his wife. What does he need that for, you may say to yourself. Just as he may say to himself: What does that guy need all those rifles for? Just as the guy down the road wonders why the guy across the street needs all those old motorcycles. After all, he can only ride one at a time… .
But each to his own.
It’s just a more everyday way of stating what Jefferson stated with greater eloquence: The pursuit of happiness. To be free to choose. To not have others choose for you. To live as you – not your neighbor, not some politician – see fit. So long as what you do isn’t causing someone else harm. And it causes no harm – as such – for a man to own a powerful gun, or a powerful car. Or to live in a large house. Or to enjoy working on old motorcycles. To pursue his happiness.
In an unfree society – a society such as the one America is rapidly becoming – the individual’s needs are defined by others.By those who have power.
By those who possess guns – but deny others their right to own a gun.
Because they have decided they need guns.
But others – the others being whomever they so classify - do not.
Just as they will – if this business goes the wrong way – shortly begin to decide that no one needs to have more than a certain amount of money. Or a certain kind of car. Or so much house. Or more than “x” number of children.
And so on – without end, without limit. Because need is ultimately undefinable. It can mean anything anyone wants it to mean. And if those with guns decide you don’t need a gun – they will feel free to decide you don’t need other things as well. Depend upon it.
Need is the intellectual-moral cup of hemlock being offered to the American people.
We’ll shortly see how many decide to take a sip.
This is like the largest pharmaceutical company claiming that it is doctors over-prescribing medicines that is causing drug dependence in America.
I'm all for gun rights, but these guys are sickening the way they refuse to acknowledge their part in all of this. The Second Amendment only guarantees your right to bear arms - it doesn't say anything about no limits to extended mags or barrel shrouds and semiauto fire... this is NRA nonsense. Culture is to blame - but these guys are enabling the violence by refusing any kind of background checks or restrictions. You think they don't watch the same movies or listen to the same music in Canada or the UK? It is not just our media. The NRA has blood on its hands. They are indirectly murdering thousands of Americans every year. End of story.
Don't know where you live, but here in the US where I live, a background check is done every time I purchase a firearm, and if I am a felon, of have been adjudicated as mentally unstable, I can't buy it(I understand the killer in Conn. tried to buy a gun and was denied!)
The killer in Conn. was taught by his mother to shoot all types of guns (6) that she was licensed to own including the assault rifle he used to shoot all those 6 yr. (11 bullets per child) olds. She took him out target practicing. Who says everyone is a responsible gun owner???????? And even if you are, are you taking that weapon with you when you die, no , that gun will be most likely be sold at those gun shows. We already have to many guns in this country. To many people are into guns and we wonder how they get into the hands of those people that are dangerous.
To blame the media, or games on your computer is ridiculous. If your child is stable and knows the difference between right and wrong than you would not have to worry about them gunning someone down.
We can try our best to protect ourselves but "The Truth Be Told" we're All just sitting DUCKS.....Even in the WILD WILD WEST...when everyone could carry....innocent people were killed. Yes, I guess we could all walk around strapped....but the reality is....there's a difference between having a gun and using it to kill. So, basically you'll have a bunch of scared people out there who will probably end up shooting a family member before facing off with the bad guy. But, the NRA needs to know.....NO ONE NEEDS AK's and semi-automatic guns....because when ONE person has this.....they might as well have the grenades to go with it.
Ok, so the 600,000 extra police will be paid by all gun purchases, like car registration and the highway system, but, but that could add about flat fee of 2,500 Dollars to all guns purchase, even used ones,--That would help, I am not willing to pay taxes for gun sligers screw ups--AND any registered gun owner will be the responsible person if his gun is used for a killing (even if the shooter (and now the owner )gets the death penalty), no matter who stole the gun, like in CT, so we no longer hear the stupid explanations in court, why the gun was not locked up, that will get about 50 % to get rid of their guns, in about 5 years, and we will get the guns all locked up like we did in EU 60 years ago--even for police guns off duty for the countries where police have guns!.
The NRA apparently used to be an important group for educating the public on the safe use of firearms. At this point they seem to exist purely to support the craziest people in the country and the industry that care little for anything aside from the USD. I'm talking about the people forming armed militias that aren't remotely necessary in the modern USA. I'm talking about the paranoid people who feel that they need to amass a vast arsenal of weaponry in order to feel that they are safe. Millions of Americans go about their day without that paranoia. Millions of Americans do not feel the need to conceal a weapon on their person. It's sad that the evidence, that clearly shows that video games and movies are not causal to violence, is ignored so these same crazy people can maintain a death grip on their weapons. It's sadder that we need, what seems to be, an endless line of tragedies to even bring the idea of gun control into the public view. I would never want to ban all firearms. I have many times tossed around the idea of purchasing a target pistol for recreation. To the people who tell us that, if we restrict gun ownership, the only people with guns would be criminals; I call liar. The good guys will always have guns as well. These "Good Guys" are our law enforcement agencies. Criminals versus cops is the right way to fight crime. How about everyone just being allowed to own one rifle and one shotgun and leave it at that? Hunting does not require extended clips. Protecting your family shouldn't require more than a shotgun. It's scary to think of a whole school, movie theater or shopping mall full of flying lead after one shooter decides to flip out. Collateral damage is something we should reserve for war time. The NRA has proven finally that they have no desire for safety. They have a desire to pull the strings of politics and scratch the backs of their industry at the expense of our children.
You thought about purchasing for recreation... you had no intent of harming anyone with this weapon? Maybe that's because your not insane! It would not matter if I owned an Apache helicopter... I wouldn't do anyone harm with it, because I'm not insane. Recreational use of ANYTHING (fully automatic, explosives..whatever) is not a problem in decent hands. As with everything in society today, the bad deeds of few will ruin it for everyone. People like you are the reason for this fact.
I'm not for a total ban on firearms. That would be a ludicrous impossibility. Still people don't need AP ammunition, or high muzzle velocity high capacity rifles. Maybe there needs to be a way to waive privacy regarding your personal mental health records if you want to have access to a gun. There needs to be a ban on high capacity clips. There needs to be a national registry for all guns. There needs to be blanket laws that cover even gun shows and private sales. We have reached a tipping point. The alternative is to hand out body armor with every birth certificate. Now that is one heavy baby.
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Indeed. I attend a gym on a state university campus where we have armed police to intervene when necessary. !5 years ago, we had a shooter that killed three professors before armed response stopped him from more killing and/or escaping, by threatening HIS life with firearms: the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Some years ago we had a man plow into a crowd with an automobile, should we out law automobiles? Some years ago, we had a man park a U-Haul with a fertilizer bomb that blew up an entire office building, including a nursery full of children, should we outlaw fertilizer and U-Hauls? Some years ago, we had several people high-jack airliners and fly them into building to kill people, should we outlaw airliners?
We already have more laws than I can recall (except THOU SHALT NOT KILL) to restrain us from killing one-another, but the killing continues. If the current shooter had not had a firearm to kill with, he would have used something else to scratch his itch: a car, a bomb, an airliner.
Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Subtract the gun and they will still find an alternate means to serve their desired end.
Hey guys BRB I just got done playing Grand Theft Auto 4 so I'm going to go steal a car and run over a bunch of people.
As a parent I'm not ready for "armed guards" in our schools, but I am ready to teach our children respect for guns, how to handle them safely and how to defend themselves if needed (DONE). For those of you have concerns about violence in your public school system maybe it's time to consider "home schooling" and integrate firearms training in to your curriculum. If "Home Schooling" is not for you, How about we integrate firearms training in to the Public School system? As a parent that grew up in MT I always thought it was my responsibility to show our children how to handle firearms and how to put meat on the table. They have all had firearms training via "Hunter's Safety Programs" and some additional training as members of the Armed forces. Whether or not they choose to hunt, they at least have the basics of firearms safety. I would not support armed guards in the school system but I would support mandatory firearms training in our Public school systems and would take it one step further and support mandatory (2) years of Military membership for all able bodied Americans.
here in houston, as in many cities i'd suspect, the school district has had it's own armed and commissioned police officers, along with a police cruiser, assigned to every school. it's been that way for years now.
as for our general culture, the nra wants everything else to change to fit the agnda of a very, very small sub-group of their members. i say very small because long-time supporters of the nra and guns rights have come public since last week to say 'enough is enough.'
Useless ideas by the NRA gangsters who are a root cause of the problem. The NRA, a murderer's best friend comes up with more ways to promote more death and destruction. This shows how out of touch these zealots are from helping solve a problem. OCCUPY THE NRA because 1% of the people should not be making policy for the 99% that want to live safely.
Your family killing queers are a smaller minority and look at what harm they do, KILL FAMILIES. YOU sound like a nut job to me!
So many have forgotten why we have the right to be armed in this free country. The 2nd Amendment didn't have anything to do with hunting or the "shooting" sports, it specifically allows us to be free from an oppressive government. The greatest mass murders throughout history are governments. Go ask the Jews if Hitler would be anything more than a footnote in history if the Germans hadn't allowed him to disarm them in the name of security. An armed populous is the best defense against a government bent on doing evil.
Problem #1 the so call liberals / progressives in this
country have for so many years been brain washed to believe that people who
commit crimes like this should get a slap on the hand. Or the one's that go out
and kill people get life or less in prison. There's no deterrent any longer, if
people commit these types of crimes MURDER and 3 people witness they should
receive the death penalty, with no appeals PERIOD. If not witness but found
guilty they also should receive the death penalty PERIOD with out appeals and
or years in prison.
But we have a nation that continues to feel sorry for these
people, along with kids being brought with any respect for life and moral
values. We always go off and want to take guns away from Americans.
People need to understand History first before make more
uneducated decisions.
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union
established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable
to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey
established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to
Defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany
established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million
Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and
exterminated.
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China
established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political
dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Guatemala
established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians,
unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda
established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable
to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia
established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated
people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th
Century because of gun control: 56 million..
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You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear
politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property
and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect
Only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please
remind them of this history lesson.
With g uns, we are
'Citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'.
During WW II the Japanese decided not to invade America because
they knew most Americans were
A R M E D!
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti g u n -
control message to all of your friends.
The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is
more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain.
All else is supplemental..
SWITZERLAND
ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND'S
GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND
HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
IT'S A NO BRAINER!
DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT
WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL
LAW ABIDING CITIZENS
AN EASY TARGET.
I'm a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment!
Thank You for stating it in a way I could not. I agree totally, I wished an armed CITIZEN could have been there for all those poor innocent people.
USA,Keep your guns,your mass killing,your guns in schools,your assault rifles,your NRA( who careless about those children),yours almost 12000 killing every year.If you are happy so be it.The civilized world is wandering what is wrong with your society,but you are so arrogant that still don't care about the world,you are superior.THE AMERICAN DREAM has became THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE.
Your type of thinking has brought the nightmare home. Go look at the crime rate in Great Britain, no guns allowed and it is the worst place in the world, even worse than South Africa!
Try good old fashioned FAMILY VALUES! Parents that care enough to discipline their children.
A government that cares about the mentally ill enough to have help for them when they need it.
These simple things would go a long way in preventing all crime.
I am for upholding our constitution and the second amendment
but I do not understand why the NRA is opposed to a ban on assault rifles. There
should be a combined effort to have gun regulation along with have serious look
at reopening long term asylums for the mentally ill. In addition the FDA needs
to get serious about some of the drugs that are harming people and our kids
over the long term without influence by the drug companies. Also the media ,
movies , video games, TV shows and music needs to look at violence and maybe censored
to a point where it is not over the top. Of course all sides would have to work
together and show some compromise and we all know how well that works with our Government.
The statement about having Police in all our schools is asinine so you have a
cop in the schools and the mad men hell bent on killing follow a school bus to
the first stop and create a killing zone that way. Or they move to a Chuckee
Cheese, Bounce U , Daycare, bowling alley. Are we going to have armed guards
everywhere? This is a social problem and regulation problem that needs to be
addressed.
More Hypocrisy from the NRA and their main supporter - the Republicans. They want the Federal Government to pay for armed soldiers at our schools. Isn't this the same group that cries less government and doesn't want tax rates to go up. Oh and doesn't the right also say Goverment doesn't create jobs. How about the NRA instead of spending money on trying to take down political figures who have never tried to disarm them (President Obama) and spending billions of dollars in Lobbying - what if you take that money and in a sign of good faith why don't you pay people to arm the schools. Assault weapons and Armor piercing bullets do not belong in the hands of untrained, paranoid Americans! And if you believe differently you have bought into all the scare tactics that these groups have fed you. 20 beautiful children were killed and all you imbeciles can think of is cradling your firearms. SMH
More hypocrisy from YOU! An armed and trained TEACHER might have been able to do something. SHAME ON YOU for blaming republicans! I am a gun owning Republican and have never shot or killed ANYONE! You are out of line but what do you expect from someone so narrow minded.
The current thinking and justice system in America is to hang my gun and let me go free to kill again. Lets lock up violent offenders and throw away the key.
I too blame these VIOLENT video games & TV shows that are more and more "realistic" and these already deranged kids (that have been raised poorly too) see it as "the way it is"! I think the media has went WAY, WAY over the top with this so called "coverage". They should be ASHAMED of themselves for making it worse for these poor, poor families. The whole Country is praying for you and hope someday you can find peace in your lives. I have 5 children and 4 grandchildren and cannot imagine what you are going through. This is senseless and total madness, I just wished it could have been prevented.
For those who think more laws are the answer... It is already against the lawto kill someone. If a person is willing to break this law, what makes you think they won't break the one saying they can't legally own a weapon? Stupid waste of time and resources disarming the innocent people who do obey the law!
AMEN Brent!!
Most gun owner are not nut jobs. They support restrictions on high capacity magazines and the selling of assault type weapons. This is according to the NRA's own survey.
Unfortunately for those on the extreme side of the NRA, you are not allowed to pick and choose which parts of the amendments you like. The 2nd amendment clearly states 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed'.
Elected officials have every right, as granted by this amendment, to regulate the keeping and bearing of arms.
The extremists will lose this battle. Public opinion has turned. Regulations will be put into place. The courts will uphold those regulations if they are challenged.