Obama administration
- Drone strikes
- Benghazi
- NDAA
- IRS harassing opposing political parties
- Harassing the press
- Fast and Furious
Hope!!!
Here’s a joke for you: A war criminal, a compulsive liar, and a thief walk into the White House
If Eric Holder worked for a Republican president, you’d never hear the end of his wretchedness. Fortunately for him however, his buddies in the mass media are all on his “side”.
The cretin should be imprisoned.
It’s not even the end of the first year of his second term and Obama’s administration has gotten in quite some nasty messes
- New information regarding their coverup of an attack against US diplomats that they watched happen and did nothing about
- Using the IRS to attack political opponents
- “Obtaining” two months of phone records from reporters and editors at AP
Criminals we can believe in.
I’m glad someone edited this godawful strawman comic to be more accurate.
A parent being so monumentally stupid that they allow their child to handle firearms in an unsafe manner removed from their supervision is not a gun control issue. It is an issue of personal responsibility, and should be handled with the utmost severity, if a parent is so negligent that their own child suffers a fatal accident they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. It’s not up to the state to decide whether or not a gun should be in the home, but it’s up to the parents and the owners of those firearms to keep them safe and secure. I was trained on firearms when I was only around eight years old, but the way I was taught was to be incredibly safety conscious and the people who taught me made very sure I did not handle them outside of their supervision. Boy Scout summer camps have shooting ranges all over the country teaching shooting with rifles and shotguns to children as young as 12, but because they’re properly supervised, accidents are rare. You can’t make stupid illegal, no matter how much you may want to.
Please tell me, what amount of gun control would prevent an irresponsible parent from being negligent and irresponsible, leading to their child having a fatal accident? Please tell me how you plan to legislate personal responsibility.
Between the years of 1993 and 2011, as the assault weapons ban expired, more Americans purchased guns, the Supreme Court overturned outright gun bans, and individual states not only loosed gun control restrictions but also issued concealed carry permits to private citizens, incidents of gun violence in America collapsed.
- Between 1993 and 2011, nonfatal gun crimes plummeted 69%; from 1.5 million to 467,300.
- Gun-related murders dropped 40%; from 18,253 to 11,101.
- Gun-related murders for black Americans plummeted by 51%.
- Between ‘93 and ‘11, the murder rate in schools dropped by almost a third; from 29 to 20.
- Less than one-percent of state prisoners caught with a gun purchased it at a gun show.
- Only “2% of state inmates and 3% of federal inmates were armed with a military-style semiautomatic or fully automatic firearm.”
GLORIOUS SCIENTIFIC VICTORY
(via thearmedgentleman)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-related homicides and other crimes involving guns have fallen sharply over the last two decades in the United States, but most Americans believe firearms crime is higher now than 20 years ago, according to an analysis and a separate poll released on Tuesday.Some 11,101 gun-related homicides were reported in the United States in 2011, a figure that is down 39 percent from the 1993 peak, the Justice Department reported. Nonfatal firearm crimes declined by 69 percent to 467,300 in the same period.
Amid an intense national debate about gun control - which flared anew in the wake of a December shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 people dead - some 56 percent of Americans believe that gun crime is higher now than it was 20 years ago, the Pew Research Center said its poll showed.
Only 12 percent of Americans realize that gun crimes have fallen, the center said in a statement. The Pew survey was based on a March 14-17 survey of 924 adults and had a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.
The drop in gun crime mirrors a general fall in U.S. violent crime. The Justice Department study found that for fatal and nonfatal firearm crimes, most of the decline occurred from 1993 to 2002.
In 2011, about 70 percent of homicides and 8 percent of nonfatal violent crimes, such as rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault, were committed with a firearm, mainly a handgun.
From 2007 to 2011, about 1 percent of victims in nonfatal violent crimes reported using a firearm to defend themselves.
The Justice Department findings were based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System.
Politicians are distorting facts to trick the public into supporting their own agendas? SHOCKER!
What a complete (non)surprise
(via marsthebringerofwar)
The Second Amendment (as anti-gun politicians see it)
The feeling of safety, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of hunters to keep and bear arms for the purpose of shooting deer, shall be infringed reasonably on the basis of need and the will of the majority.
I’m glad someone edited this from the original “if housepets were libertarians” because it really highlights the condescending master/slave dynamic that statists consistently use to justify their high and mighty attitudes.
My favorite is when people try to compare guns to gay marriage.
Well what if you don’t support restricting either? The argument hinges upon the presumption that all gun rights supporters are your typical white male spouting off the Republican party line.
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill into law that bars cities and counties from destroying guns turned over to police at community buyback events and requires that they be resold instead.
The bill signed Monday was supported by Republicans and the National Rifle Association and opposed by Democrats.
Backers in the GOP-controlled Legislature argued that destroying any property turned over to the government is a waste of taxpayer resources.
Opponents argued that destroying the guns keeps weapons off the streets when owners no longer want them.
House Bill 2455 was designed to close a loophole in state law that generally requires seized firearms to be sold to licensed gun dealers.
Tucson and other cities destroyed weapons turned in at buyback events, arguing it’s legal because the guns were voluntarily surrendered.
Good to see my state making another stand against meaningless disarmament measures.
To those spending hundreds of dollars on guns and the costs of learning to use them/practice all in the name of “safety”, I wonder: do you have CPR training? Have you studied martial arts? Lifeguard training? There is probably a long list of things you could exhaust your bank account(s) with to learn invaluable safety skills to protect you and those close to you that don’t involve guns and likely prove more useful statistically, and yet the first impulse is to grab for a cowardly machine to do the protecting for you..? Maybe I’m missing something.
Hey, I found a picture of you.
To OP, I actually do know CPR and I have taken lifeguard classes in the past. I know most basic first aid as well as how to survive in abnormal situations. Carrying a gun is just another safety precaution, don’t assume those who carry a gun do so as a replacement for other skills.
