Ban assault weapons? Wrong answer. Every healthy, law-abiding America should have an assault weapon!
It's time to stop outsourcing our duties as citizens and take personal responsibility for defending ourselves, our families, our communities and our Constitution.
I saw the importance of this during the L.A. riots in 1992 — and I don't mean that I was at home, watching them on television...
You know the old saw:
When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
Sometimes we have to be our own first responders.
And defending American values as citizens isn't just about owning and knowing how to use a gun.
Skills like CPR and tying off a limb to stop the bleeding can be just as vital to living out that personal responsibility.
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George, I wrote a book on the phenomina of boy soldier conscripts….worked on it for three years….that scene in Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot” convinced me to re-think the whole thing…
George, I don’t know if you have ever considered …in appropriate circumstances….a home guard, malitia minuteman, or insurgent resistance…
If you have not…don’t worry…others have.
The weapon of choice for those who have is the Armalite 15 semi-automatic gas impingement rifle chambered in pressure augmented NATO 5.56 (a variant of Remington .223).
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/11/18/washington-state-police-chief-pushes-back-new-gun-restrictions?intcmp=ob_article_footer
A good point Andrew. The deaths could have been prevented if law enforcement had done their damn jobs starting with picking him up before he even walked into that school. The fact remains, a gun was the only thing that would have stopped the Parkland shooter and saved lives. Which was the point you seem to have missed entirely.
https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1066156287455608832
Believe what you want Andrew and George for that matter. Sheep and Sheepdogs. Its easy to tell them apart.
“So why this hysteria over guns in Canada?” asks Ken Dibnah.
Because well versed totalitarian leaders know that an unarmed populace is not going to be a bother to them when they do those things that totalitarians do. Its a manufactured problem alright.
George guns are made to hunt and protect as well. The person sing it decides what it is used for. And please let me know when a gun has gotten up and killed someone without a person.”
A loon with a gun kills far more than a loon without one.
" Alberta Maga commented 19 hours ago
George sorry but countries with strict gun control have more deaths , like Brazil for example. "
Do you feel Brazil is the most comparable nation, demographically and socioeconomically, to the US? Why would you omit Canada, the UK, or Australia, which are arguably far more similar to the US and better basis for comparison? Oh, I bet it’s because they show the opposite.
Liza, does the Breitbart article mention the armed “resource officers” at Parkland that failed to stop him? Being Breitbart, I’m guessing not. There were also shootings in Miami and Birmingham, Ala. Torontno’s murder rate is comparable to New York’s, but New York is the safest large city in the US.
Guns have always been a toy or a tool, Canadians have always owned guns and just 5 minutes on Stats Canada’s site proves it. The murder rate has remained steady in Canada at “about” 500/year with less than half caused by guns; during the gun hysteria, gun crimes decreased marginally but the murder rate did not. Murderers chose knives and baseball bats instead and the death rate stayed steady. The death rate for cancer? About 65,000/year. The death rate for heart ailments is about the same too but the rate of killings by guns is NOT EVEN STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
So why this hysteria over guns in Canada? There really isn’t a problem with them, we are remarkably peace-loving in Canada yet the current government is hysterical about them and liberal snowflakes go crazy whenever “gun” is mentioned.
Presumably this is another huge Liberal red herring like the purchase of a pipeline; shots are fired, Liberals shout “havoc” and rush to the microphones to decry guns and gun ownership while screeching about “gun control” so that liberals have a rallying cry and everyone (except this crowd!) are distracted from the real problems we have in this country and get all pious and sanctimonious over guns.
Gun control in this country is a manufactured problem that has no basis in facts or statistics. Gun control is approaching the same looney religious zealotry as “global warming/climate change/pollution” and has as many or more adherents.
But you still didn’t dress the content off any of the video evidence I suggested to you. WH not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0vkSO9n8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkO_3dZAYg
More guns equal more death:
https://firearmrights.ca/en/hello-world/
Insurance Industry Says Gun Ownership is not a Risk:
https://firearmrights.ca/en/gun-owners-are-not-a-risk-insurance-industry/
1. "but in general, more guns means more gun related violence’.
2. “the U.S has far more guns than any other nation on the planet, it also has by far the most gun related deaths than any other developed nation.
6 times the homicide rate in Canada, 7 times as many as in Sweden and 16 times as many as in Germany” countries which have strict gun regulations
3. “while the specific relationship between firearm availability and homicide is complex, it appears that a viscous circle connects firearm availability and homicide levels.
4.”one recent study suggests that stricter state gun laws do make a difference. Researchers concluded that states with the most firearm legislation have the lowest rates of firearm associated deaths; as well as the lowest rates of both murders and suicides with guns"
Thanks for the article. I think you just made my argument for me.
Criminals don’t obey the laws now . . . how could anyone think passing dozens of laws to restrict honest citizens was going to stop crime?
https://crimeresearch.org/
Every year in the USA . . . citizens have stopped 10s of thousands of criminal acts because they carried . . . and you never hear about that in the insane far-left media.
You, being ex military would be the exact sort I would want to be carrying so there would be those around to respond to a school shooter or a Danforth maniac as long as the armed were of sound mind, have training, and have ongoing properly done security checks. You do know that assault weapons are not available to the general public, and anyone discharging, handling or storing carelessly is looking for the loss of their firearms, fines and or jail time. Also, the only “uncontrolled firearm use” is done by illegal guns and those with no license, not legit gun owners.
Alberta Maga is right, your comment about countries where gun control works is not correct.
I just can’t understand why you think all legit gun owners are irresponsible, hence my inquiry. One would assume that in your course of duty, even though most of it was spent in the air, that you may have returned fire to save your own skin or one of your own. You are the one making insulting comments insinuating that leaving a gun lying around carelessly is something that happens with any frequency. You must be aware of the hoops gun owners in Canada go through. No one is saying it never happens or that someone unbalanced has discharged their firearm and hurt or killed, however that sort of incidence is far outweighed by innocents getting shot or killed by illegal guns wielded by those with bad intent. Farmers and property owners in rural Saskatchewan for example have had many incidents of attacks by two or truck loads of inebriated thieves. They need to be able to protect their families and their property.
http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/guns-in-other-countries/
And Canada had a lower rate than the US before we had gun control.
91 homicides in Toronto (good work Tory) with 6 wks to go. T.O will probably exceed 100. That is disgusting. Why should the crims be the only ones with guns, and how much sense does that make?
At the end of the day, regardless of any accident or domestic legal gun-use stat, they will be far outweighed by the crims who still have guns no matter what.
“I am not against lawful gun ownership but…”
You could have fooled me George. Your big ‘but’ basically says, gun ban.
“I fear what will happen when a careless gun owner leaves his assault rifle in the home unattended”.
That is an insulting comment. 1. The general public cannot legally own an assault rifle as previously explained, and 2. legit owners don’t leave their firearms ‘lying around’.
Were you really in the military? In what capacity?