Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Control Gun Violence By Controling Guns

On this date in 2012, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took place in Connecticut. Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, were killed.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reports: "Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, six states have taken action to enact strong, common sense laws. Today eight states have expanded Brady background checks to cover all gun sales." But, as these figures suggest, gun laws differ wildly from state to state. As with most such legal patchworks, the vulnerable suffer,. "...it is a fact that those with weaker gun laws on average lead to more gun deaths."

Fire arms laws and regulations need to be uniform across the country and gun safety must be the top priority for those who own them. The Brady Campaign has had noteable successes since its inception in 1981; Yet by its reckoning,some 32,000 people are killed by fire arms every year in this country, an average of 31 every day. That is unacceptable., not to say unsustainable.. Pro-life (sik) campaigners use the term "culture of death." The gun culture is the true culture of death. It must be changed or we won't have to worry about neuclear bombs - we'll all shoot each other instead.

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Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Shooting Falls On School Day For First Time

29 comments:

  1. Finally finished an overdue opinion in a civil case; now (0015 hrs) I can feed my germs some Nyquil and go to bed. That stuff (and Dayquil) mess with my mind--can't take either one and do critical work. This is the third and last dose for me.

    Alan

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  2. Slept well, feeling even better this morning than yesterday, but taking another day off from work--still weak.

    Alan

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    1. So glad you're feeling better, Alan, but you're wise not to push it. ♥

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  3. Never taken dayquil, but often a nyquil knockoff after I haven't been sleeping well for long. Blessed stuff!

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  4. From the If You Didn't Laugh You Would Cry Department:

    Don’t Be Distracted - Click

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    1. From "Don't Be Distracted"

      Unthinkably petty Tweets like that are Trump’s way of distracting you from the horrifying reality that he really is your next president — and the perfectly reasonable concern that America is being swirled down the same drain that has sucked all prior empires and superpowers into history’s unforgiving pit of nevermore. (Which is intended to distract you from the appointment of Ben Carson.)

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      Yeah, we're doomed.

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  5. Left a few links at the tail end of the last thread that folks might have missed. Should have waited for the new thread. *sigh*

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    1. Nah, we know to look there.--Alan

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  6. Why do I still have to contend with gnats in December on an 11 degree day!

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    1. And we have two kinds of ants! Tiny ants in the kitchen (second smallest I've ever seen) and ordinary large ones here and there...in the house. While we have 4" of snow on the ground and are expecting a few minus temps with windchills to -35F. How is this possible?

      We also have a Christmas Spider. It's quite tiny, came in with the tree, and has been perched on the ceiling above the tree since. :-)

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  7. http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/mnd-our-narcissist-chief

    From the article:

    What happened with the Democrats, I think, Clinton, you're right, tried to out-Republican the Republicans, and Obama, I think, was afraid. I think Obama didn't really. and partly being the first black president it was very difficult because he believed so much in logic, reason, compassion and that this is a country of red and blue states.

    Thom Hartmann: Collaboration.

    Dr. Justin Frank: Collaboration that he kept trying to collaborate with people like Mitch McConnell and Ryan and Boehner, and all those people, They don't want to collaborate with him, they just want to destroy him. And he kept that he could argue with them or help work out with them and he couldn't. And he was afraid and so the only time he's really shown the kind of courage I would have liked in the president was when he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton in the last couple of months before the election, when he essentially talked about how dangerous Trump is, how incompetent he is, how he doesn't know very much or anything and that, and he even said at one point, democracy's on the ballot.

    Thom Hartmann: Yeah.

    Dr. Justin Frank: Now, all of those things are very powerful things but then he backed down the second, because he believes in transition, I guess you have to, so he backed down immediately and says, 'oh, right, come over to my house and we'll talk about what to do.'

    It's very disturbing. And so I think that one of the things that Trump has shown unconsciously to a lot of people is that the powers-that-be in this country are also afraid. They've always been afraid. Al Gore was afraid when they were banging down the doors in 2000 about hanging chads. He's now afraid again and he's going talking to the Trumps about, you know, he's kissing the ring.

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    This fear and failure to fight and weakness are the things that have *always* troubled me about the Democrats. They just will not stand up on their hind legs and fight and we suffer for it.

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    1. They also believe they are right when they're incredibly wrong. Hillary Clinton didn't lose because of Russia or Comey; she lost because people didn't want her to be President. Had the Dems nominated Bernie, or AT LEAST had him be the VP, they'd have had it in a landslide. But they just did not listen, and from what I can see, they still aren't. (What on Earth does it take to get them to listen?!)

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    2. I don't know, Listener. But they are like zombies, or broken records or something. They simply refuse to face the fact that she was not the right candidate. They point to the popular vote and tell you you're wrong and stupid and naive, and that Bernie and Stein lost her the election because all those votes for candidates other than Clinton were really votes for Trump, and on and on. They are, as I said months ago, cultists and Clinton is the classic cult leader. They would all drink poison if she told them to. Of course, I suspect Trump's supporters would do the same. God save me from stupid, gullible people!

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  8. I have commenced reading Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, bound together with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Weirdly interesting so far...

    Alan

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    1. Ah. Great books. Must reread them myself.

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    1. Senate hearings on conflicts of interest and violations of the oath of office, loss of Old Post Office lease and about 75 civil suits should occupy a good part of DT's time as soon as he becomes President, and should drag on as long as he is in office. It could make Bill Clinton's tenure look like a love fest. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Impeachment and removal from office is IMO less likely than being incentivized to resign, as Nixon was.

      --Alan

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    2. Wonder if Pense would pull a Ford?

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  10. Another police homicide in Bakersfield. [Click] Trump defeated Clinton 54:41 in Kern County (county seat Bakersfield). Statewide Clinton:Trump 62:42. Just sayin'.

    Alan

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    1. Well, we should hope not. I wonder how long it will take his voters to realize they've been conned. That will probably happen sooner than the Democratic Party figures out how they screwed up and get their house back in order. Cynical, yes indeed.

      Alan

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    2. Realistic. I'd say Hell will freeze over before the Dems realize what happened.

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