Raees wrote: If that means Mitt the Twit won't have a gun, that's great.
Morons and left wingers (is there a difference?), have equal access to handguns, rifles, and shotguns. All that is required for a legal purchase is money and passing a background investigation. Here illegally, are you a felon, or are you just looking for a "cover gun" that you can throw away? Go see your local equivalent of Fat Tony, Julio, or Tran the Triad gang member. The weapons will be cheaper than a legal purchase but you have to accept the risk of being accused of any crime that the ballistic history of those weapons carry.
In the meanwhile, in the parlance of the military, there are definitions that apply to firearms:
A gun looks like this:
Or this:
A handgun looks like this:
A rifle looks like this:
A shotgun looks like this:
Since Left wingers tend not to volunteer for enlistment in the DoD who knows what they know about firearms or what kind of formal training they have had. While that is a broad brush statement I am inclined to believe that most lefties who own guns have little or no formal training in the use and maintenance of firearms (feel free to prove me wrong).
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I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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As I mentioned in my original post, the incident was from last April, not that it should matter unless the facts have changed. But here is an update from the same local ABC news station since I guess it's gone viral.
It's spurring more debate over the right to carry guns, and if regular citizens should take the law into their own hands. Gun lobbyist Clark Aposhian told ABC 4 he wishes more people would step up like this.
"When violent crime occurs law enforcement is not there to help you, and you need to act within seconds," said Clark Aposhian, gun lobbyist.
According to a national self defense survey, a citizen with a gun stops crime like this in America roughly 2.5 million times a year.
But if you ask gun control advocate Steve Gunn –
"Society is better off not allowing the carrying of concealed weapons," said Steve Gunn, gun control advocate.
Although an average citizen may have saved lives at the Smith's grocery store, Gunn said guns don't make America safer.
"There are many circumstances where guns act as an accelerant, they cause people to become more belligerent, more aggressive when someone has a gun," he said.
Well, I don't see support for the 2.5 million claim, nor there is support offered about guns being and accelerant. Perhaps someone here can provide a link?
But both seem to agree the gun worked at that supermaket where people were being stabbed.
So just asking. If you are part of a crowd in a confined space with a mad man picking people off one by one with a weapon, what would you prefer. Just let him keep it up, or have someone with a weapon there who will distract the wacko, at the very least?
If only everyone could have an Obama phone then everyone could call 911. We could even recycle the phones left over from the murdered people that had to wait for help to arrive.
Freezeman wrote: If only everyone could have an Obama phone then everyone could call 911. We could even recycle the phones left over from the murdered people that had to wait for help to arrive.
lol
Yep, give them to all who oppose guns. That will work when seconds count.
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