GOP Inches Closer To Gun Reform

[gamewell45]

What's not shocking is that the same article tries to claim your odds of being the victim of gun violence are not infinitesimal. lol

Who know's what the author was drinking at the time he crafted this article.

[Mister D]

Who know's what the author was drinking at the time he crafted this article.

Probably the blood of children.

[Ethereal]

Interestingly enough, the NRA in an article claims the odds of needing a gun to defend yourself is infinitesimal.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/20...g-a-gun/206313

Shocking to say the least.

The odds of being in a car crash are also infinitesimal, yet nobody would argue against wearing a seat-belt.

[Standing Wolf]

I received a mass emailing from Elizabeth Kucinich the other night, in which she related a story about the father of an American soldier serving in Iraq, who reportedly told her, tearfully, that his son had a greater chance of coming home safe from overseas than his granddaughter had of coming home safe from school. I don't think I'm even going to go to the trouble of doing the math on that one.

[pragmatic]

WASHINGTON – GOP lawmakers Sunday showed some small movement toward gun control legislation in the wake of the country’s most recent deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.
Some Republicans said it’s time to move bipartisan bills to strengthen background checks, ban bump stocks and deny gun sales to people on the terrorist watch list.
“What we need is congressional leaders, specifically in my party, to allow some of these bills to come to the floor for debate,” Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla) told ABC’s “This Week.”


https://nypost.com/2018/02/18/gop-in...to-gun-reform/

This should be interesting to see where this goes.

Those sound like pretty reasonable proposals.

[pragmatic]

Generally, we won't need a weapon until we do.

Yeah. And the corollary:

"It's much better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it."

[pragmatic]

I received a mass emailing from Elizabeth Kucinich the other night, in which she related a story about the father of an American soldier serving in Iraq, who reportedly told her, tearfully, that his son had a greater chance of coming home safe from overseas than his granddaughter had of coming home safe from school. I don't think I'm even going to go to the trouble of doing the math on that one.

Think i'm going to chalk that one up to Drama Queen melodrama.

[gamewell45]

Those sound like pretty reasonable proposals.

I agree; it's always good to start some sort of dialogue so the proposals can be discussed.

[Chris]

Interestingly enough, the NRA in an article claims the odds of needing a gun to defend yourself is infinitesimal.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/20...g-a-gun/206313

Shocking to say the least.

Actually, mediamatters said "The odds of randomly laying out two decks of cards in the same order are infinitesimal."

The NRA said "exceedingly small."

While unlikely you would ever need to, wouldn't you want to be able to defend yourself?

[gamewell45]

Actually, mediamatters said "The odds of randomly laying out two decks of cards in the same order are infinitesimal."

The NRA said "exceedingly small."

While unlikely you would ever need to, wouldn't you want to be able to defend yourself?

Of course; people under the 2nd Amendment have the right to defend themselves and property. I think they have a right to determine how they defend themselves; some might resort to using guns, others may used a silent weapon such as a cross bow, knives or machetes or even pit bulls (don't laugh, a farmer who lives down the road from me has 6 of them and there is no way I'd try to come onto his property with those dogs roaming around); some will chose nothing and take their chances, either way that's their choice.