There's nothing the typical rabid right psychopath foaming at the mouth loves more than his fucking guns.
Far from ever being useful to protect the rabid right gun nut's property or person, the gun nut's own family usually ends up being a statistic.
I agree, it isn't guns that are the problem.
It's the Rabid Right Wing c-u-n-tservative terrorist that is the problem.
We need to get rid of them. The guns will take care of themselves.
Is the NRA a Domestic Terrorist Group? Look at the facts.
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Here is what the CDC has reported about shooting deaths of children:
In the 1994 World Development Report, 208 nations were classified by gross national product; from that list, the United States and all 26 of the other countries in the high-income group and with populations of greater than or equal to 1 million were selected because of their economic comparability and the likelihood that those countries maintained vital records most accurately.
In January and February 1996, the ministry of health or the national statistics institute in each of the 26 countries were asked to provide denominator data and counts by sex and by 5-year age groups for the most recent year data were available for the number of suicides (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision {ICD-9}, codes E950.0-E959), homicides (E960.0-E969), suicides by firearm (E955.0-E955.4), homicides by firearm (E965.0-E965.4), unintentional deaths caused by firearm (E922.0-E922.9), and firearm-related deaths for which intention was undetermined (E985.0-E985.4); 26 (96%) countries, including the United States, provided complete data .
Twenty (77%) countries provided data for 1993 or 1994; the remaining countries provided data for 1990, 1991, 1992, or 1995.
Cause-specific rates per 100,000 population were calculated for three groups (children aged 0-4 years, 5-14 years, and 0-14 years).
The rates for homicide and suicide by means other than firearms were calculated by subtracting the firearm-related homicide and firearm-related suicide rates from the overall homicide and suicide rates.
Rates for the United States were compared with rates based on pooled data for the other 25 countries. Of the 161 million children aged less than 15 years during the 1 year for which data were provided, 57 million (35%) were in the United States and 104 million (65%) were in the other 25 countries.
Overall, the data provided by the 26 countries included a total of 2872 deaths among children aged less than 15 years for a period of 1 year. Homicides accounted for 1995 deaths, including 1177 (59%) in boys and 818 (41%) in girls. Of the homicides, 1464 (73%) occurred among U.S. children. The homicide rate for children in the United States was five times higher than that for children in the other 25 countries combined (2.57 per 100,000 compared with 0.51).
Suicide accounted for the deaths of 599 children, including 431 (72%) in boys and 168 (28%) in girls. Of the suicides, 321 (54%) occurred among U.S. children. The suicide rate for children in the United States was two times higher than that in the other 25 countries combined (0.55 compared with 0.27) .
No suicides were reported among children aged less than 5 years. A firearm was reported to have been involved in the deaths of 1107 children; 957 (86%) of those occurred in the United States.
Secretary of State Clinton recently and accurately spoke about the guns that the Mexican drug cartels have in their civil war against the Mexican government they come from the USA!
What more evidence does the NRA need? Their rhetoric and propaganda is shamefully irresponsible. Im not a hunter or a sports shooter and I dont understand the thrill-but I am not about to say people shouldnt have the ability to possess guns for sport. But gun control is critical.
Why on earth would the NRA fight tooth and nail against gun control? They are irresponsible and they are ultimately accountable for the gun deaths in the United States.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution reads- 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 Second Amendments grammar is known to grammarians as an ablative absolute. This means that the Second Amendment has been considered formed with an opening justification clause, followed by a declarative clause. In other words the opening phrase is considered essential as a pre-condition for the main clause.
This was a grammar structure that was common during that era and is consistent with the concept of the Second Amendment as protecting a collective right to firearms for members serving in a select militia ONLY- not the individual.
One only needs to look at the time-line of the original debate about the Second Amendment by the framers to understand that the intent was the collective right- not the individual right.
The original text of what became the Second Amendment, as brought to the floor of the House of Representatives of the first session of the First Congress was:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
The Bill of Rights introduced by Madison on June 8. 1789 was not composed of numbered amendments intended to be added at the end of the Constitution. Instead, the Bill of Rights was to be inserted into the existing Constitution. The sentence that became the Second Amendment was to be inserted in Article I, Section 9, between Clauses 3 and 4, which list individual rights, instead of Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 and 16, which specify the Congresss power over the state militias.
Debate in the House on the remainder of June 8 focused again on whether a Bill of Rights was appropriate, and the matter was held for a later time. On July 21, Madison raised the issue of his Bill and proposed a select committee be created to report on it. The House voted in favor of Madisons motion, and the Bill of Rights entered committee for review. No official records were kept of the committees proceedings, but the committee returned to the House a reworded version of the Second Amendment on July 28.
On August 17, that version was read into the Journal:
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms.
The Second Amendment was debated and modified during sessions of the House on August 17 and August 20.These debates revolved primarily around risk of mal-administration of the government using the religiously scrupulous clause to destroy the militia as Great Britain had attempted to destroy the militia at the commencement of the American Revolution. These concerns were addressed by modifying the final clause, and on August 24, the House sent the following version to the U.S. Senate:
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
The next day, August 25, the Senate received the Amendment from the House and entered it into the Senate Journal. When the Amendment was transcribed, the semicolon in the religious exemption portion was changed to a comma by the Senate scribe:
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
On September 4, the Senate voted to change the language of the Second Amendment by removing the definition of militia, and striking the conscientious objector clause:
A well regulated militia, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The Senate returned to this Amendment for a final time on September 9. A proposal to insert the words For the common defence next to the words Bear Arms was defeated. The Senate then slightly modified the language and voted to return the Bill of Rights to the House. The final version passed by the Senate was:
A well regulated militia being the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The House voted on September 21, 1789 to accept the changes made by the Senate, but the Amendment as finally entered into the House journal contained the additional words necessary to:
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.
This version was transmitted to the states for ratification and is without a doubt an ablative absolute both due to the grammar of the time but this can be garnered by the debate surrounding the amendment.
Many of my liberal friends are focused on our governments appalling breach of international law and eviscerating the Geneva Convention. We should be angry about what Bush and Company did- they are war crimes. But what about the NRA? They are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans and are arming drug cartels in Mexico with American guns in what amounts to a civil war that is spilling over the border into our country
It is time for Congress and the Obama administration to say NO MORE! and send the NRA lobbyists packing- and I dont mean packing heat!
The NRA is nothing but a domestic terrorist organization and they must be stopped once and for all!
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