The Surprising Forces Behind Mass Murder in the US

[Elderberry]

 Ammoland Inc. Posted on June 11, 2019 by Rob Morse   

After the recent shooting in Virginia Beach, Democrat politicians said US gun owners were causing mass murder. Biased journalists said the same thing, and both of them are fantastically wrong. The real mass murderers are the people who claim to be for “gun safety”. The results are shocking once you look at the data and once you uncover a few facts. Unfortunately, our biased media is spewing spin rather than truth.
Do guns save lives?

Honest citizens defend themselves thousands of times every day. That isn’t rhetorical hyperbole, but hard statistics. We defend ourselves about every 30 seconds. Honest and law-abiding gun owners use their firearms for defense about about a hundred times an hour, about 2800 times a day.

These honest citizens used their personal firearm to rescue themselves until the police arrived. You don’t see it in the news because these gun owners are exactly like you and me; they are wonderfully reluctant to press the trigger. Criminals almost always run away from armed victims just as the criminals run away when they meet armed police officers. Like police officers, the people who carry a legally concealed firearm in public are shockingly law abiding.

Armed defense doesn’t happen on every street every night, but it happens millions of times a year here in the US.
Disarming the good guys doesn’t stop the bad guys

Gun-control disarms these honest citizens who obey the law. Gun-control means that a young college student is disarmed as she walks to her apartment late at night. Gun-control means an elderly man can’t defend himself as he walks across the parking lot on a rainy afternoon. These honest citizens are disarmed by the high costs and burdensome regulations that politicians impose on gun owners. They are disarmed by bureaucrats who impose “gun-free” zones. Criminals never choose a fair fight. They gang up on isolated victims. Disarmed citizens are easy prey.

More: https://www.ammoland.com/2019/06/the-surprising-forces-behind-mass-murder-in-the-us/

[Jazzhead]

"Gun control"  that disarms honest citizens is unconstitutional.   But there's nothing unreasonable with requiring honest citizens to register and insure their firearms.   

[Sanguine]

"Gun control"  that disarms honest citizens is unconstitutional.   But there's nothing unreasonable with requiring honest citizens to register and insure their firearms.

Well, except for the "shall not be infringed" and the "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" bits.

[Bill Cipher]

Well, except for the "shall not be infringed" and the "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" bits.

Neither of those would prevent the states from requiring gun owners to register or be insured.

[skeeter]

"Gun control"  that disarms honest citizens is unconstitutional.   But there's nothing unreasonable with requiring honest citizens to register and insure their firearms.

And for the hundredth time - how would this stop gun violence (which is the purported issue)?

[Taxcontrol]

Neither of those would prevent the states from requiring gun owners to register or be insured.

I disagree as they infringe on the rights to own and carry a firearm.

Infringe:
act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on.
"his legal rights were being infringed"
synonyms:   undermine, erode, diminish, weaken, impair, damage, compromise;

[skeeter]

I disagree as they infringe on the rights to own and carry a firearm.

Infringe:
act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on.
"his legal rights were being infringed"
synonyms:   undermine, erode, diminish, weaken, impair, damage, compromise;

I would say handing the current crop of tyrants in charge the means by which they can easily commit the ultimate infringement weakens that particular right.

And who doubts they will.

[truth_seeker]

"Gun control"  that disarms honest citizens is unconstitutional.   But there's nothing unreasonable with requiring honest citizens to register and insure their firearms.

The notion of an honest government, worthy of trust, with the list of registered guns and owners, is contrary to reality.

Guns are for the time when the government no longer deserves trust.

[Absalom]

Hasn't it been obvious for generations that the NRA is little more than an aggressive
lobbyist and grifter for firearms industry; slouched behind the 2nd Amendment?
We permit automobile registration, a material convenience, due to public safety concerns,
yet gun registration is apparently out of the question because of some sorta spiritual linkage
between a gun and inalienable rights.
The Natural Law, a body of unchanging moral principles which are the basis for all human conduct,
apparently neglected to mention gun rights.

[txradioguy]

"Gun control"  that disarms honest citizens is unconstitutional.   But there's nothing unreasonable with requiring honest citizens to register and insure their firearms.

You just proved the point of the article in one sentence.  Well done.

[txradioguy]

Neither of those would prevent the states from requiring gun owners to register or be insured.

Registering..and the cost there of...along with the cost of "insuring" the gun infringes on peoples right to keep and bear arms because of the prohibitive cost of doing those things.

[txradioguy]

Speaking of insuring guns...I won't if our gun grabbing friends here realize that guns are already insured under your homeowners or renters insurance policy?