Posted on 07/24/2012 5:32:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
CNN... Cable News for those not wanting to watch the news.
The response of the normal people in Colorado is to buy guns. What is going on CNN?
They are not going away from guns, they asked themselves the question normal Americans asked after the shooting: Why did no audience members shoot back at the wacko? The answer, they were not armed! They were sitting ducks.
The disarmed heros threw their bodies over their loved ones and died. They would have shot back and knocked off Holmes if they were armed and ready like they SHOULD have been.
The citizens of Colorado are now solving the problem of the crazy savage: Gun sales are up 40%
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-24/colorado-gun-sales-surge-after-the-aurora-massacre
I think this is an orchestrated attempt to try and force Senate ratifiction of the UN arms control treaty. It’s all too consistent. Somebody is handing out the script and pulling the strings.
What’s a “CNN”?
Something that should be wiped and flushed.
“You tell me a good reason why we should not strengthen the law ..”
Facts, Piers.
Gun violence has gone down since the end of the “assault” rifle ban.
More than twice as many people are murdered each year with bare hands than with all rifles combined.
Piers Morgan needs to go home to the little island of England AND STAY THERE. He makes me sick when he acts like this is his country.
"America has got to do something about its gun laws."
YES!
My suggestions:
1 - No gun-free zones
2 - Unrestricted open carry across the board in all 57 + 1 states.
If CNN practiced more responsible coverage they could do more to decrease mass murders than any legislation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4&feature=player_embedded
Psychiatrist: “Whenever we see intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.”
Let’s add US territories and possessions, too!
Let’s see 57 + 2 + 1 for a total of 60 States of the Union.
(”I’ve visited 57 States with one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii I was not allow to go though I really wanted to, my staff could not justify.” -B.O.)
Territories: 3
Commonwealths: 2
Possessions: 8
Compacts of Free Association: 3
http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/territories.htm
Total:76
CO needs Constitutional carry although I’d rather it be national. Bring back full-auto ownership.
Do you have a website with those statistics handy? Thanks!
CNN couldn’t be any worse than the Head Bloviator, Bill O’Really tonight demanding that owners of “heavy weaponry” be put on a list with the FBI.
What’s heavy weaponry, you ask? Bazookas, mortars...AKs, semi-autos...according to BOR.
What a jerk.
>>Do you have a website with those statistics handy?
There was a long article comparing stats from US and Canada that referenced these stats - which I can’t find quickly now. However, here’s a couple of recent references, quotes, then source:
“Though it is one of the most popular rifles sold to civilians, the AR-15 is rarely used in crimes, presumably because its not readily concealed. The most recent FBI figures show just 358 of the 8,775 murders by firearm in 2010 involved rifles of any type. By comparison, 745 people were beaten to death with only hands that year, but no one has called for outlawing fists.”
JENNIFER RUBIN, WASHINGTON POST: “Listen, we can make all of the declarative statements we want. There is no shortage of empirical data in criminology. In fact, it’s one of the most researched areas of social science. When we had the gun law, the assault ban weapon, there wasn’t a decrease, when we let it expire, there wasn’t an increase.
“We have had a gradual decline over the last 40 years in gun violence and all kinds of violence, in part, because of better policing, in part, because incarceration. So I think some of these statements that there are — we’re having more of these incidents, they simply are not true.”
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