Posted on 12/29/2013 10:23:41 PM PST by smokingfrog
A high schooler in Colorado hunts for food, carrying on a family tradition. A father devotes his life to sparing others from his son’s fate. An elementary school student in Michigan takes careful aim, making his mother proud. A mother in California grieves a son gunned down.
These are the stories of young people across America whose lives have been shaped, for better or worse, by guns.
A great rift divides Americans over gun laws, ownership and restrictions. A year ago 20 elementary students and six adults were killed during a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., sparking a national debate about gun laws and mental health.
In the days after the shooting, public support for stricter gun control was at 58 percent, according to a Gallup poll. But nearly a year later, fewer than half of all Americans believed that gun laws need to be tightened, the same poll showed. And only 26 percent of respondents believed private handgun ownership should be banned — a record low.
In advance of the Sandy Hook shooting anniversary, Digital First Media spent several months this year traveling the country from Michigan to California to Colorado, meeting families and learning what role firearms play in the lives of their children.
Each family agreed that responsible gun ownership was imperative, but definitions of “responsible” varied widely.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesherald.com ...
What's up with those crazy Aussies, anyway?
They are very often legends in their own minds.
This brought to mind the "fainting goats", startle one of them and he faints.
Walk up to this liberal moron and just say the word "guns" and watch her faint dead away.
even the words �gun� and �bullets� are off limits.
HTML gone wild.
LOL, I think those words certainly are off limits!
That’s the Unicode Replacement Character, \uFFFD. (info).
ICD 9: International Medical Coding and “Legal” Execution Brought Under Obamacare
ICD 9 E 978 “Legal Execution
All executions performed at the behest of the judiciary or ruling authority [whether permanent or temporary] as:
asphyxiation by gas
beheading, decapitation (by guillotine)
capital punishment
electrocution
hanging
poisoning
shooting
other specified means
INJURY UNDETERMINED WHETHER ACCIDENTALLY OR PURPOSELY
INFLICTED
“beheading, decapitation (by guillotine)”-—this will make the moslem influx into America happy, huh? Sharia by “nudging”.
Christians considered terrorists? Beer and guns in the same house (with children) will put parents in the position of having their children removed by gov’t services.
Obama-scare contains more than you can imagine—people need to spread the word.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/icd-9-international-medical-coding-legal-execution/#56RMF60m1Baktd5r.99
Oh...I forgot!
Screw YOU NSA.
Scapegoating, the inverse action of idolizing.
Neither scapegoat nor idolize. Submit it all to God and let God direct how to use items such as guns and bullets, just as for any other items.
“They are very often legends in their own minds.’
A couple of cans of Foster’s will do that to ya, mate! ;)
She can go the hell back to Australia.
Lives ARE NOT shaped, for better or worse, by guns. Lives are the individuals responsibility and what he/she does with it.
“A great rift divides Americans over gun laws, ownership and restrictions.”
A “Great Rift” divides Americans over religion, God, the Constitution, morality, the purpose of life, etc. There was far more similarity between the North and South pre-Civil War, than between the current Godless, amoral, anti-Constitutional Americans and the rest of us.
That statement doesn't edify me in the least. Why would it appear in my final post? I used standard HTML when I replied.
Neither scapegoat nor idolize. Submit it all to God and let God direct how to use items such as guns and bullets, just as for any other items.
I was jokingly comparing her to fainting goats, not scapegoats.
It's the toilet water up here - seeing it swirl opposite to that with which they're accustomed just messes 'em up. ;-)
The poor Sheila... someone should tell her that there are flights leaving the U.S. every day.
You simply do not understand the role of "critical components."
Guns are not like "any other item."
Access to lethal weapons on nominal par with those that may be faced are as critical to liberty as water is to survival.
Guns Save Lives Daily News Update
Father Scares Off Three Armed Home Invaders by Racking Shotgun…Yeah, That Actually Happened
Dec 29, 2013 02:06 pm | Dan Cannon
“Just a note, racking a shotgun should not be used to scare off intruders. In my personal opinion, if you have a modern firearm that is safe to store with a round chambered, that is what you should do. That said, it does seem in this case that the racking of a shotgun was enough […]”
Teaches them about personal responsibility. I taught our daughter about firearms early in life.
To this day, I can take the magazine out of my pistol, pull the slide back and give it to her. She will clear the gun, even though she saw it empty when I had it in my hands.
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