🇺🇸 Discussion: Guns, The Second Amendment, NRA - Part II

[DJ Kornphlake]

Full list of Republican senators who receive funding from the NRA

 

[InCali]

The safety solution in the US is to turn everything into a prison that has one way in and one way out and to allow people outside of said prisons to carry weapons designed to kill people.

This makes sense to me. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Sorry to say, this nation’s best days are behind her.

It's like that more each day. Maybe I'm just too old for this crap.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NY Times - In More Than 100 G.O.P. Midterm Ads This Year: Guns, Guns, Guns

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - People in homes with handguns more likely to be killed, major study finds (April 2022)
Researchers find ‘zero evidence’ that living in a home with a handgun offers protection against homicide, with women at particular risk

The researchers calculated that for every 100,000 people in that situation, 12 will be shot to death by someone else over five years. In comparison, eight out of 100,000 who live in gun-free homes will be killed that way over the same time span.

Those numbers suggest the risk rises 50%, but Studdert said it was actually higher: in a separate calculation designed to better account for where people live and other factors, the researchers estimated the risk was more than twice as high.

In particular, the researchers found, people who lived with handgun owners had a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims, 84%, were women, they said.

Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found.

People who lived with handgun owners “did not experience such fatal [stranger] attacks at lower rates than their neighbors in gun-free homes”, the researchers wrote, noting that stranger homicides at home were “a small minority” of the homicides observed in the study.

“The reason people have guns in their home is for protection from strangers,” said David Hemenway, director of Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center. “But what this is showing that having a gun in the home is bad for people in the home.”

You're more likely to use the gun on yourself or have your gun used against you than using it to protect yourself.

Real life isn't fiction of the writers of Hollywood, books, and video games. Despite the firearm supremacists railing against the purveyors of the arts they are the ones that think how guns are used in them are the same as what happens in practicality in the actual world.

 

[mclay18]

Wow.

He died of a broken heart. It's incredibly sad.

Now their kids are orphans thanks to do-nothing Republicans.

 

[samsnee]

Cops love to role play and knock down apartment doors. Reality hits and they can’t stop an 18 year old before he enters a school and massacres 20 innocents. It shows good guys with guns don’t stop anything.

 

[Sithborg]

Hogg is a little optimistic in his tweet, but the image is a good idea of the mood.

Bonus, fun video of a gun supporter choosing the wrong crowd.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

"in the wake of every mass-shooting"

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Sithborg]

When you do something that even Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton think is not a good idea politically.

 

[Mani-Man]

"in the wake of every mass-shooting"

Ted Cruz is the living embodiement of the american dream...a completely clue and talentless buffon, being able to make it into a Position of Power while Nobody likes him or punches him in the face for Being ****ty.


"a very dangerous country", and it isnt that right now why?
People getting gunned down in schools, churches, grocery stores etc...sounds to me very dangerous.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Trump wanted to have Black Lives Matter protestors shot.

 

[C. Lee]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Police do support an assault weapons ban.

LAPD chief among nation's top cops who ask Congress to ban assault weapons (2019)

They shouldn't like going up against them any more than anybody else does.

 

[Sithborg]

Abbott ignored all protests from police organizations when he signed the law that eliminated pretty much all requirements to owning a gun in Texas.


Existential screaming

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Sithborg]

Keep interrupting him.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AP FACT CHECK: NRA Speakers Distort Gun and Crime Statistics

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Texas Tribune - Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill. But they said their reports were ignored and that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.”

Mass Shooters 'Do Have Many Warning Signs,' Researcher Says (August 2019)

Silver's conclusions? The people — overwhelmingly men — who commit these acts carry a sense of grievance that festers into an "organizing principle." They will often tell people what they intend to do, either in person or online.

Mental illness is not a primary driver behind these shootings, according to Silver. Misogyny, racism and interpersonal anger were all bigger motivations of the subjects in the study.

ABC News - Alleged Dayton gunman Connor Betts showed signs of misogyny, mirroring a grim pattern for shooters (August 2019)

NY Times - A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women (Published 2019)

Mother Jones - Armed and misogynist: A Mother Jones investigation uncovers how toxic masculinity fuels mass shootings (June 2019)