Brian Ross wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 1:51pm:



Pennsylvania does not have unregulated firearms ownership. Bullsh1t is not a good start for an opening posts.


But pretty much mandatory for an anti- gun hysteric. 

The Teachers I know say the children run the class room because the school no longer has any ability to discipline the little monsters.

I suggest you don't realize how fast bad parents will sue and how quick the Courts are to side against the schools.

I opened the link and the first thing I noticed is that they don't look like anyone from my neighborhood.

When I was a small child the schools would punish everyone for the actions of a few or one. I am no longer a small child and do not react well to anyone who would punish me for the actions of others!

There are severe penalties for people who leave unsecured firearms that lead to a tragedy. If the Law is enforced.

BigOl64 wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 2:10pm:


Neatly sidestepping the mindset that allows a 4 year old to shoot a toddler though ?

Two home invaders targeted the home of a Louisville (KY) woman who learned how to shoot a year and a half ago, and it was the last mistake one of them will ever make.


    It happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. at a home in the 3800 block of Northumberland Drive near Westport Road in the Worthington Hills area.

    LMPD says two men tried to break into a home at that location when a female homeowner shot and killed one of them.

    The man who died has been identified as 23-year-old Eric Gathwright. He died at 3:30 p.m. on the scene from a gunshot wound.

    He was found by police just outside the house, while the other was arrested shortly thereafter.

    The son of the homeowner described what happened between his mother and the attempted burglars.

    “They busted the back window out, and that’s when she stepped out of the hallway and let one shot go and hit somebody, and obviously she got him,” said Bruce Haddix, whose mother shot the man.


The other suspect, 23-year-old Aaron McDuffie, has been charged with burglary and with Gathwright’s death under Kentucky’s implementation of the felony murder rule.

Haddix said that his mother is shaken up by the incident, which is entirely understandable. Taking a life is never easy, even when it is more than likely justified as it appears to be in this instance.

It’s a good thing that Haddix’s mother heeded his advice a year and a half ago, learned how to use a gun, and then purchased one. If she hadn’t, we may have been reading about another kind of felony crime instead.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 9:42pm:

Panther wrote on Dec 6^th, 2016 at 12:21pm:


My, what an interesting graphic.  Pity it is completely wrong about the dates for Pol Pot.   In 1956 IIRC he was a school teacher...   

Mao also wasn't the leader of China until 1949, so I'm unsure which citizens he supposedly took their firearms away from...   

In all cases of course, the citizens weren't defenceless, as their nations were awash with firearms, as they were involved either in civil or international wars.   History has never been a strong point for the NRA, has it?   

A while back, we wrote about an inane NBC Today Show segment that recommended homeowners rely on car keys and wasp spray to defend themselves against burglars and other home invaders. A former New York City detective counseled viewers to “buy a can of wasp hornet spray in the hardware store or the supermarket [and] keep it by your bedside or the floor… An intruder hit with the spray will be temporarily blinded.” If the spray didn’t do the trick, he advised homeowners to treat the criminal “like royalty” and cooperate fully.

Apart from the likelihood that using any registered pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its labeling would violate federal law, these products are not formulated for use as a human repellant and won’t work like mace or pepper spray.

Another curious strategy against home invasions and burglaries recently surfaced in England, where private possession of handguns is largely banned, other firearms are prohibited or tightly controlled, and where the right of self-defense has been progressively eroded. According to the Colchester Borough Council, “Defensive planting helps combat crime.” The Council has “joined forces with Essex Police and Poplar Nurseries to launch a Defensive Planting Initiative,” to advise residents and businesses on the “the best shrubs and other living barriers” to plant to deter access to a property and thereby reduce burglaries and other crimes.

The Chair of the Safer Colchester Partnership, Pam Donnelly, points out that “living barriers can be one of the best and most attractive ways of securing your home and property against crime. Although it can take some time for plants to grow, the end result really does justify the effort and should deter even the most determined burglar.” However, even this ultra-passive strategy comes with tendrils attached: local authority planning permission, if required, must be obtained, and the police advise the barriers should not leave the property owner “open to civil proceedings” from visitors and trespassers, as may be the case with vampire vines, strangling creepers, and man-eating trees.

Weighing the obstructive merits of a giant rhubarb (gunnera manicata) against those of a fuschia-flowered gooseberry (ribes speciosum) would be quaint but for the fact that the Brits have real cause for concern. Data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) indicates that almost 60 percent of burglaries of dwellings occurred when a resident or someone else was in the home; of those, the percentage where force or violence was threatened or used against the occupant has increased steadily since 2006. The latest CSEW statistics show that in burglaries where an occupant was present and saw the offender, the offender resorted to the use of force or another form of violent victimization in 41 percent of these crimes. The Colchester Borough Council’s website on crime warns that “burglars are breaking into houses while you sleep with the intention of finding your car keys, stealing your car and any other small items they find on the way,” and recommends hiding car keys in a noisy drawer – “but don’t take them up to the bedroom with you.”

Americans, with a constitutional right to armed self-defense and Castle Doctrine legislation in most states, don’t need to bother with cultivating a perimeter briar patch, and may hang their car keys off their bedposts with impunity. Unfortunately for those on the other side of the pond, keeping one’s family safe may mean a moat and drawbridge.

Good to see the NRA having diversity in their vids.

PRESCOTT – Gun ownership among women is up: a Gallup poll showed that 23 percent of women surveyed reported owning a gun in 2015, up from 13 percent in 2005.

“Women are one of the fastest-growing segments of the shooting sports business. Of the retailers surveyed over the last year or so, 70 percent have seen an increase in their business from women shooters,” said Don Grier, owner of Prescott Gun Club.

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group, 42 percent of women who own a gun own three of them.

And the National Rifle Foundation states that, in 2014, more than 13,000 women participated in its “Women on Target Instructional Shooting Clinics,” up from 500 in 2000.

What’s behind this growth?

In a word: empowerment.

“A lot of the ladies coming to us are coming specifically for personal protection,” said Sherrie Seibert, co-owner of Insight Firearms Training Center in Prescott Valley. “They want the independence of knowing they can protect themselves, and not have to depend on anybody else to protect them.”

The NRA’s Jason Brown agreed with that assessment.

“The feedback we receive is that a lot of women are just empowered by the idea of owning a firearm for self-defense, whether they have to use it for self-defense or not,” Brown said.........

CONTINUED

.......The single most important reason for the Second Amendment was as an insurance policy against our own government. I don’t mean to sound alarmist, but that’s the historical truth. I will write a column explaining more of these details. For now, suffice it to say that the Founding Fathers considered the greatest threat to liberty to be a national government that has acquired too much power. While America for more than two centuries has been the freest nation on earth, the Founding Fathers did not know what the future would hold. So, in keeping with the teachings of political philosophers such as John Locke, they decided that the people should all be armed. That, they claimed, was the ultimate insurance policy to keep the government in check and keep the people free.

These reasons are why the Second Amendment protects all of your rights. Whether freedom of religion, free speech, free press, free association, the right to protest the government, or our other rights, the Second Amendment allows you to protect those freedoms for yourselves and your loved ones.

The NRA is dedicated to protecting all of your rights under the Constitution. And by focusing on securing and advancing the Second Amendment, our mission is to make sure that your children and grandchildren enjoy the blessings of liberty, just as you and I do today.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 8^th, 2016 at 5:38pm:



I loved semi-autos, my favs were the SLR & AR 15. Excellent hunting weapons.

Not everyone is terrified of a chemical process contained in an inanimate object made of metal, plastic & wood. 

Baron, Panther, all the other gun nuts tell us there is nothing to fear from unregulated firearms ownership!   

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 1:51pm:


Can you cite where I have ever said we should have unregulated gun ownership or did you pluck that strawman from your ass?

I've always said..,...if you have a violent mental illness history, or you have been diagnosed as mentally ill, you should never be permitted to own or use a firearm, or any type of weapon for that matter.

Also, if you have a criminal record, especially a violent criminal history, & you have served 1 year or more in prison, you should never be permitted to own or use a firearm, or any type of weapon for that matter.

Everyone else, male or female of age, who wishes to own, keep, &/or carry a firearm should not be kept from doing so after passing an extensive background check, to be conducted & completed within a short, but reasonable time....say 3 to 5 days. The potential gun owner needs not provide any reason(s) for desiring said firearms, & if stated willfully & voluntarily, the potential use for self-defense would be a completely acceptable reason, & never preclude them from ownership.  http://www.33sm.ml/smileys/cleanteeth09.gif

That's quite restrictive in my view.....but not for some bed-wetters.  

Panther wrote on Dec 11^th, 2016 at 12:59pm:


So, you support the confiscation of firearms from the "mentally ill"?

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So, that covers legal firearms.  1 year appears rather arbitrary though.  Surely it should be on the seriousness of the crime?

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So, no restrictions on the type of firearm that can be owned?   No regulation as far as age is concerned?   No regulation as far as training/ability is concerned?

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You appear to oppose the regulated ownership of firearms (ie, you support essentially unregulated ownership).  My, how American of you and so at odds with what the overwhelming majority of Australians believe...   

Panther wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 3:27pm:


The right to be part of an antiquated militia system is the reason for the second amendment.

99% of armed US citizens will never be a part of such a group

You know this is the same sort of structure that the US claimed was not legitimate in Afghanistan in reference to the northern alliance.

One of the problems with the US constitution is that antiquated provisions like this are stuck in the agreement for no valid reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

Actually it is a little over eleven thousand deaths, since your culture legalized euthanasia we will exclude the twenty one thousand people that voluntarily shot themselves. That is a small number for a population of over three hundred million!

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 11:21pm:


I am all for doing everything possible about ensuring loons and the intellectually deficients never have access to weapons, but that is not what we did.

We carried on and continue to carry on like frightened children; p1ssing our collective pantaloons at the mere mention of the word, gun

How Australia carries on about firearms is an embarrassment.

Wasn't it?  We forced the loons and the intellectually deficients to hand in their dangerous semi-automatic longarms and pump-action (and now lever actions) shotguns.  They were able to, once they became members of responsible firearms owning associations, replace them with other firearms, considered less dangerous and more difficult to kill large numbers of people with.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 11^th, 2016 at 1:12pm:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States


Actually it is a little over eleven thousand deaths, since your culture legalized euthanasia we will exclude the twenty one thousand people that voluntarily shot themselves. That is a small number for a population of over three hundred million!

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 19^th, 2016 at 3:33pm:



The Price of Freedom[/b] ....... just like those who die of Sclerosis of the Liver due to excessive drinking, or lung disease because of excessive smoking, etc....etc.....etc..... the list is never ending. Though you wish you could, you can't ban everything & still have a free society. Liberty has it's costs.

Panther wrote on Dec 19^th, 2016 at 3:55pm:


Amazing that you're willing to sacrifice your fellow citizens so readily, Panther.  Tsk, tsk.  As I've said, so...uncaring.   

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 18^th, 2016 at 7:35pm:




You stupid, pretentious, vain old idiot!!!  "interesting, comparing dislike years for dislike years"????

And a murder rate 20+ times higher than the US's is to be passed over in silence because there is a difference between "shot" and "murdered" for Frau Blucher, tut tut, don't you know (but no difference for the victims, of course, but do not let them detain Mrs Blucher, the self-styled intellectuel).

I can't believe how stupendously stupid you are and yet you haven't been run over by a bus decades ago. Just uncanny.

Report: Concealed Carry Permit Holders Are The Most Law-Abiding People In The U.S.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 2:44pm:



Mr. Lott doesn't even own a firearm,

Constitutionally, he believes in strict constitutionalism, which basically means interpreting the Constitution as written, & intended, by the documents authors & their writings.

When President Donald J. Trump submits a strong Second Amendment Conservative to the Supreme Court to replace Scalia, & then with another, when Ginsburg either retires or dies, when confirmed the Unites States Supreme Court, & the Second Amendment ( the inalienable second Right in the American Bill of Rights), will be in safe hands for decades.

Frank wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 11:41am:


By?  John Lott, a known gun nut...  Tsk, tsk, Frank, really?   

Shooting Down the Gun Lobby’s Favorite “Academic”: A Lott of Lies

More guns, less crime? Not exactly.

When the Gun Lobby Tries to Justify Firearms Everywhere, It Turns to This Guy

The GOP’s favorite gun “academic” is a fraud

BigOl64 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 5:13pm:


Oh, dear, oh, dear, you feel the need to attack me, personally?  Tsk, tsk.  How hilarious! 

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 5:18pm:


I have no problems attacking an hysterical anti-gun nut whose every post is based solely on that bias. Nothing personal, you understand. 

BigOl64 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 5:38pm:


Of course not.  I wonder why you don't attack the hysterical pro-gun nuts, Bigol64?  Mmmm?   

A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said.

The dead man has been identified as Reginald Gildersleeve, 55, of the 5000 block of South California Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Gildersleeve was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:10 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office. An autopsy is slated for Sunday.

Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage Park neighborhood around 7 p.m., announced a robbery to an employee working behind the counter and displayed a handgun.

Another employee came from the back of the store, and the gunman pointed his weapon at her, police said. He then made her go to the back of the store, which also serves as a currency exchange.

After that, a customer who was also inside the business pulled out a gun and opened fire at the robber, killing him, police said. Police initially said the robber was possibly in his 40s.

Police said the shooter has a valid concealed carry license and a valid firearm owner's identification card.