Tag: guns for everyone

A Gun Happy Nation

Alison Parker and Adam Ward It’s all baloney. CNN headline is “Our Hearts are Broken” as they display photos of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Horror and dismay along with weeks of coverage after the massacres at a Colorado movie theater by James Holmes and Sandy Hook elementary school and the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. But we just can’t give up our guns.

After each event there are flowers laid at a critical location and a call for a gathering to remember those who have been killed. They call it a “vigil.” Then we all go on with life knowing that there will be another horrifying killing within the next few days.

The Los Angeles Times had an article about this very topic in the morning’s edition before the latest killing in Virginia. The article says that the United States is the leader in the most mass killing of any country in the world.

Where is our congress? On vacation forever on this issue.

So despite the killing of nine in a Black church in South Carolina and the killing in Tucson, Arizona that left Gabrielle Giffords maimed for life; Our love for guns trumps all other events. Our preference to own a gun has no limits. There is no price too high to pay that will change our love of guns.

When our leaders say we are the exceptional country is gun ownership part of that? The answer must be yes. Is there another reason we allow everyone to own a gun?

Poll Finds 6 in 10 Americans Believe Guns Improve Home Safety

A troubling article in Time magazine says that a Gallup poll indicates that “More than 60% of Americans say having a gun in the home makes them safer.” Gun control advocates just don’t understand American thinking.

The Time article provided a link to Gallup where I found these results.  Clearly I am in the minority.  No other country in the world has the high death rate from guns that we experience.

Having a Gun in the House -- Safer or More Dangerous?

Google “gun deaths by country” and the results are overwhelming.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate – Wikipedia …

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This is a historical list of countries by firearm-related death rate per 100,000 … years), 3.0 (2008), 2.79 (2001), 0.64 (2001), 3.62 (2001), Guns in Argentina.

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90 Guns for every 100 Citizens

  Re-posted November 5, 2013

Shooting in New Jersey Mall and at LAX

Gunman kills himself after terrorizing New Jersey shopping mall

Three dead, including gunman, in Oregon mall shooting in December 2012.  Killings like this happen so often that few even pay attention.

I have written about this situation before.  The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world.  This has been reported by news agencies repeatedly.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world’s 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

So is it any wonder that when Americans become angry they grab a gun, go to the mall or their church, and start shooting at everyone in sight.  It is a society of frustrated people who want their way in everything.

Argument with your spouse, kill her/him.  Argument with your boss, kill him/her.  You look suspicious as you walk through my neighborhood I will kill you and ask questions later.

Well it’s all about Second amendment rights.  The NRA (National Rifleman’s Association) says, Defend Your 2nd Amendment Rights, Help Protect Hunters’ Rights.  There  is nothing in the Second amendment that says you have the right to bear arms for your protection or to hunt.  It does say, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free   state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

The problem is the people of the United States.  They really believe that their freedom hinges on their right to own weapons.  Sales have dramatically increased in the past four years because many believe that the Obama administration has plans to enforce new gun controls.  No laws have been suggested or proposed.  Still, there are those who continue to believe that their weapons will be confiscated.  The gun manufacturers are happy with this situation.

 It is a puzzle to me that a nation of so many wise and smart people believes that owning a gun is a necessity of life.