See, this is why some info has to be posted more than once.
Polls are tricky things. Ask yes-no questions, or vague “more stringent, less stringent” questions as in the Pew poll and you get a response that leans in favor of gun rights. But according to one study, support for gun control legislation remains the majority position when specific measures are described. It matters how you frame the question.
This was also on the Pew link page:
My take on the assault weapon thing is that Republicans favor a ban less than Democrats because a Republican is not in the WH. I speculate that a ban assault weapons would cross the 50 percent approval rating among Republicans as well if there wasn’t a fringe right-wing fantasy that Democrat=tyranny.
The stats are inaccurate because coroners are not uniform in reporting that kind of death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/children-and-guns-the-hidden-toll.html?pagewanted=all
Something can be both a homicide and an accidental shooting, according to the definition of some coroners. For at least some coroners, homicide means that the person was killed by another person, whether accidentally or on purpose. Under that definition, a three year old shooting his baby sister commits a homicide, as does a police officer shooting a dangerous criminal. Homicides are not necessarily crimes.
Oh, goodie. We all knew it would come to this. A customer with a CCP drew her gun and fired shots at … a suspected shoplifter. Security guard was trying to stop the suspected shoplifter, and the nearby customer decided it was her right and duty to open fire. In the parking lot of a Home Depot, and without knowing who else might have been in the car, or nearby.
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NOTE: These are the numbers are from memory, but pretty sure I am in the ballpark. I will corrected, I am sure, if any are wrong.
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These are your “memory” of numbers you found from what source? Imo when you provide statistics so confidently, you should still include a link.
From a SEAL who served 3 tours in Vietnam:
Good grief, @hayden. #623
I hope the lady faces charges. What the heck is wrong with people?
@cardinal fang : How about penalties for carrying/using a gun while under the influence of alcohol? Would you agree to that? We don’t let people drive while drunk; should we let them brandish guns when they are incapacitated? A scary amount of gun crime, especially domestic violence, is committed while the shooter is drunk or high.
This is already the law in most if not all states. Here in Colorado if you get a DUI while driving and have a gun in your car or on your person, you will also receive a felony gun charge.
@emilybee Enlarged amygdalas.
All you can do is shake your head. Might be a good idea to buy stock in bulletproof vests because next thing you know the NRA will be telling us that “responsible” gun owners just need to bust a cap now and then so protect yourself.
They really have to throw the book at this woman even though no one was hurt — there has to be a serious consequence for this lunacy.
From the “Responsible Gun Owner” files. I just read this on my local news outlet. You can’t make this stuff up . . .
I understand that in theory hunters know that you should never shoot at anything that you haven’t identified but it doesn’t always turn out that way in practice. I don’t feel at all safer knowing that people with this level of judgement and discernment are running around firing off guns.
That’s interesting. Can you point to the law? I can’t find it.
I see that by federal law, felons cannot legally possess or carry guns. And a DUI is a felony. So if the person gets a second DUI and has a gun in their car or on their person, they are in violation of the gun restrictions. But if they get their first DUI, well, they weren’t a felon when they committed the DUI.
The frightening thing is they all believe they are responsible gun owners. This is why I don’t really care about their 2nd Amendment rights.
@Cardinal Fang : That’s interesting. Can you point to the law? I can’t find it.
The person has in his or her possession a firearm while the person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of a controlled substance, as defined in section 12-22-303 (7)
Multiple police officers have been charged with this after getting a DUI with their service issued weapons on them.
@emilybee : The frightening thing is they all believe they are responsible gun owners. This is why I don’t really care about their 2nd Amendment rights.
It really does not matter what they think they are. The 2nd Amendment is there for a reason, and I for one am glad it is.
Thanks, Jay. So, in Colorado, it’s a misdemeanor to have a gun on one’s person while drunk. (Colorado 18-12-106) I
It doesn’t seem to be illegal in California.
https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/firearms/pdf/cfl2013.pdf
I don’t see a prohibition in Texas.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.46.htm
Other states?
Yup, the second amendment was written in a time of muskets and dueling pistols. All single shot guns, I believe. No semi-automatic, automatic, large clips, or even side by side shotguns. Take one of our Founding Fathers into Sandy Hook the day of that shooting, and that amendment would have been gone in 10 seconds. Today’s free for all of unrestricted multi-shot guns being used to regularly slaughter innocent people was never their intent, and those holding up the second amendment and saying this is what they meant to happen should be ashamed.
That’s exactly what scared off our home intruder at 1:15AM… H yelling at him - that’s all it took.
Had I had a gun, with the lights out in the entire house and H and the intruder downstairs, I can guarantee you, no matter how many hours of gun training, I would have had the same odds of hitting H as I would an intruder. I was almost nonfunctioning at that point - if that makes me a wimp, I’ll claim it proudly. At least I didn’t kill H and all the intruder got was a watch, wallet and iPod.
Very few people are willing to get the kind of training necessary to be gun owners.
If anyone wants to read story, after story, after story about how hand guns murder innocent victims everyday, you should check out the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. I follow them on Facebook and the number of unreported (in the media for the most part) accidental shootings that occur every day is beyond embarrassing for our country.
Well now… isn’t this reassuring?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/10/07/police-gun-confiscation-police-authority/73397544/
But no… it’s people who kill, not guns.