And that "report" has already been shown to be a fabrication, by multiple media outlets, including CNN, I.E.:
CNN Scrutiny Corners Bloomberg Group As 'Every Liar For Gun Safety,' Says CCRKBA
How many school shooting incidents has the U.S. had since Sandy Hook? PolitiFact Oregon
A closer look: How many school shootings since Newtown?
BTW I wonder if the author is as concerned by the 210,000+ who die, each year, as a result of medical malpractice?:
How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? (Scientific American)
(The number of people who die from medical malpractice each year dwarfs the number of people who are murdered with a firearm: FBI Uniform Crime Reports: Murder Victims by Weapon, 2008–2012)
The answer is more than two hundred years old.
I’ll note that these mass shootings didn’t really begin to happen until the 1970s. Rates of gun ownership were higher in the past than what they are today. Explanation?
- We’ve had a population explosion. Families are moved all across the country, and social supports are limited.
- We’ve pretty much given up on marriage. Note that most of these shooters come from divorced parents.
- We’re giving up on religion and have taken on a me-first, narcissistic, phony culture of moral relativism.
- We’re obscessed with sex. Violence is far more prominent than it ever was.
- The concept of honour is completely dead.
- We spend hours of time isolated from one another, typing on keyboards or playing mindless video games with little human interaction.
And the list goes on....All this us what you get with a dying culture.
Since when are our God-given unalienable rights to life and freedom subject to man's determination of "deserved"?
The 2nd Amendment is not a grant of a right by the Constitution or the government. It is a sampling of inherent rights already in existence. Hence, the wording, "the right...shall not be infringed."
There is no “deserving.” The 2A is God given and enshrined in the Constitution. That is, it acknowledges the pre-existent right that government can neither grant or deny.
When I was a child going to school every family I knew had guns in the home. Rifles, shotguns and pistols. In the 12 years I attended school there was not one single shooting at ANY SCHOOL in my entire STATE!
Now if this is a gun issue can you explain why that was that no one killed anyone in a school with a gun for the 12 years?
Honestly not aware that any school shooting occurred in the US in that time period. Plenty of guns, plenty of schools. HUM....... Maybe it is not the guns. Maybe it is something else.
If we don’t deserve guns, we don’t deserve any freedom. Which freedom are these homos willing to give up?
Under normal circumstances, the nation would be engaged in a soul-searching debate about guns, based on the most recent shooting incident.
Why?
Why not a debate about the lack of mental health facilities?
Or the glorification of violence by Hollywood?
Or the effect of violent video games on children?
Or the removal of God from our schools decades ago?
Or the ever increasing liberalization of our Government and its every is okay just tolerate it attitude?
I just checked. Yep. I still have mine, and Leviathan doesn’t.
if we are going to have a frank discussion about gun violence, let’s start with fact that 3% of the population commits 75% of the gun murders.
let’s talk about what “common sense” would say to do about the gun violence problem in this context.
Since it isn't written:
The Right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed unless the People deserveth it not
It really doesn't matter, does it?
The fact that the left would ask such a question is proof that the Founders were 100% correct that we do.
Bullsuit. Gun violence has not reached new heights and the 2A was and is not contingent on present or future crime statistics.
Actually with every terrorist organization on the planet making direct threats against the citizens of this country, what I DESERVE is to have my full rights restored by this criminal government immediately! My rights as defined by our founders ARMS is defined as the standard issue infantry rifle, which is currently being infringed.
More and more our society produces creatures that think this article is the stuff of a convincing argument rather than mock-worthy tripe.
The author of this dribble has got it wrong in the first sentence.
Gun violence is not reaching new heights. In general, it's been declining for 20 years (dramatically) along with most other categories of crime. There has been a recent uptick in urban areas, but overall the crime rate and gun violence is way, way down.
What is way up is the media coverage of gun violence and ensuring copycat crime by giving the shooters exactly what they want - LOTS of media coverage.
There is a reason sports leagues and the media who cover them generally don't show streakers. They know it only encourages more.
All of these commies can burn in hell. The sooner the better.
My attitude on this general subject is...the more that politicians and other government officials *don't* want me to have firearms the *more* I want one.
yep, let them guess ... I’m not ruled night or day.