When bias beats logic: why the US can't have a reasoned gun debate

[umbertino]

 

Mass shootings in the US are consistently followed by calls for action – and then political paralysis. That’s because people refuse to see nuance, experts say

 

 

Lois Beckett in New York

Saturday 7 October 2017 12.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/us-gun-control-debate-bias

[umbertino]

Why Americans won’t give up their guns

 

The United States needs new gun laws. But first it needs to shed the myths that sustain its reliance on weapons

 

 

Friday 6 October 2017 06.00 BST

 

By Gary Younge

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/americans-guns-nra-las-vegas-shooting

[Theseus]

When is the UK going to ban vehicles?

[MyLadiesDaddy]

I want to know when they are gonna ban kitchen knives.

 

ISIS Claims Responsibility For London Attack That Killed 7, Injured 48

The men then ran down a set of stairs and began stabbing people at a number of different pubs and restaurants in Borough Market,

 

 

May 22, 2013: Murder of Lee Rigby

Two Islamic extremists savagely murdered Lee Rigby, a British soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, just outside an army barrack, telling eyewitnesses the killing was "as an eye for an eye ... because Muslims are dying by British soldiers every day," according to ABC News reporting from that time.

 

ISIS claims responsibility for fatal stabbings in suspected terror attack at French train station

 

And if you really want to see how bad this is go here

https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/terrorist-attacks/

 

2017 Terrorist Attacks

1,010 attacks, 5,850 fatalities

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So what do you think that we should be banning again

 

 

 

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1,010 attacks, 5,850 fatalities

[patrickgold]

When are we going to stop murdering babies, more babies are murdered than the mentally, suicidal individuals commit. Do the numbers on this heinous crime.

[Jaxinjersey]

Sooooo.... there's no logic in bias?   Another disingenuous title from some liberal mental midget... 

[Karsten]

I have a massed quite the collection of lame Ass Firearms, Ammunition and Magizines.....not a damn one of them works like as these liberal Shoot em Up Washington Fancy Pants claim they do.....Mine just sit there in the safe and do nothing. I put Ammo in the Safe and nothing, I leave the safe door open and nothing....I have loaded a few step them by the door and still they do nothing.

 

I am thinking the Liberals have all the Guns that works seeing as all the Mass Shooting in the past 20 plus Years have been carried out by Registered Democrates, liberals or some other hate group.....Just sayin Killary has people done in daily and the LV shooters plane just happens to be in the Possession of on of obama's Private Contractors.......And the libtarbs want to Blame the NRA and it's Members....News Flash, no NRA Member went out and Murdered anyone today.

 

Just telling ya all how I really feel.....Time for another beer.

 

Karsten

[Muleslayer]

10 hours ago, umbertino said:

Why Americans won’t give up their guns

 

The United States needs new gun laws. But first it needs to shed the myths that sustain its reliance on weapons

 

 

Friday 6 October 2017 06.00 BST

 

By Gary Younge

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/americans-guns-nra-las-vegas-shooting

 

Edited October 8, 2017 by Muleslayer
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[nstoolman1]

I have some of the laziest firearms and related items. I open the safe and call them. They won't even come out on their own. 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, Karsten said:

I have a massed quite the collection of lame Ass Firearms, Ammunition and Magizines.....not a damn one of them works like as these liberal Shoot em Up Washington Fancy Pants claim they do.....Mine just sit there in the safe and do nothing. I put Ammo in the Safe and nothing, I leave the safe door open and nothing....I have loaded a few step them by the door and still they do nothing.

 

I am thinking the Liberals have all the Guns that works seeing as all the Mass Shooting in the past 20 plus Years have been carried out by Registered Democrates, liberals or some other hate group.....Just sayin Killary has people done in daily and the LV shooters plane just happens to be in the Possession of on of obama's Private Contractors.......And the libtarbs want to Blame the NRA and it's Members....News Flash, no NRA Member went out and Murdered anyone today.

 

Just telling ya all how I really feel.....Time for another beer.

 

Karsten

Bravo!  

That's because when people like us pull our guns it won't be to make a statement.

It will be for freedom

IT WILL BE 

TO PROVE A POINT

[Synopsis]

2 hours ago, Karsten said:

liberal Shoot em Up Washington Fancy Pants

 

Fancy Pants? I thought they were Depends they make everyone else change for them and demand everyone sing endless praises for having the opportunity to serve them quickly, courteously, endlessly, exactly the way they want it done, and without fail?

 

Well, OK, just messin' with You, Karsten. Does seem they want it that way, though, and they have absolutely no shame about it.

 

Hope Your Weekend Is Going Well, Karsten! 

[yota691]

"An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject."
Anon.