Just saw this via CNN:
I guess the media can’t make up their mind…
Also, came across this. Although, it does end in 2010-2011:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
AND, an interesting viewpoint on “school shootings”:
As Irish pointed out in another thread, these studies don’t take into account the population growth. When looking at the numbers, nothing has changed. Swimming pools still kill more children every year in this country than firearms. Hammers still kill more people every year in this country than “assault rifles”.
TPTB do not give a rodent’s rear end about the facts. As long as there is another mass shooting they can trot out the images of the victims and their families and lament the fact that we are the only civilized nation that permits it and all that happy horseshit.
It no longer does any good to counter their crime control arguments, IMHO, because their agenda is to disarm the American public. Even if crime were zero, they would still try to get firearms restricted or banned based on health issues or the weather or something else.
People need to wake up and realize we are dealing with people who seek to take away our guns whatever the excuse they give. All we are doing is fighting defensive battles countering their arguments.
We need to promote the idea that firearms ownership is our RIGHT, and that there are many positive reasons to own firearms.
Some people are starting to get the message, but too many people think, “If I just present this fact to them, they will see that they are wrong.”
Newsflash: they KNOW that gun control is not about crime. It’s about control.
This is me. I’m constantly debating the issue, and it’s exhausting.
Any time I bring up the Constitutional Right argument, I am met with a rebuttal along the lines of “it’s an archaic document, it’s worded vaguely, it doesn’t say civilians can have ‘assault rifles’”.
To which I reply that it is my right to protect myself and my family from any aggressor whose aim is to hurt me or my family. The last line in that defense is the use of lethal force via the deployment of a firearm by a responsibly armed citizen, i.e. me. It just so happens that the most effective tool for the job is a semi-automatic rifle or handgun.
Most seem to at least start to get it at that point.
Try this on them.
The right to bear arms IS NOT a Constitutional right; it is an unalienable right that the Constitution protects/guarantees.
That will really blow their little minds.
Here’s a prime example… 4 home invaders with guns, man calls 911 and gets voicemail… Police were dispatched 3 1/2 minutes later but a lot can happen in the time that it takes for them to arrive on scene, decipher what’s happening and take action.
A home invasion and robbery in Pasco County is exposing some problems in the 911 dispatch system.
It happened earlier this week on Gwain Road in Port Richey. A man called 911 after four robbers with guns broke into his home, demanded money and prescription drugs.
The dispatcher tried to transfer the call from the fire department to law enforcement side of things – but he got a voicemail just as the crooks returned to the home.
Chaos ensues. The man takes matters into his own hands and shoot one of the robbers…
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