AndyS
AndyS's JournalThere are no statutes at state or federal level that allow for capitol punishment for property
crimes. There are 42 Federal statutes that grant the possibility of the death sentence and only one cites anything other the death of attempted murder of a human being, that one being Treason.
There are a number of state laws that allow for the death penalty for petty crime but they are camouflaged as gun rights laws. Every person who carries a gun legally is offered the opportunity to be judge, jury and executioner for any minor crime, real or imagined. The only criteria is that the gun carrier thinks his life or person is in danger of injury. In the case of Stand Your Ground laws it actually behooves the gunner to kill the offender, armed or not, instead of retreating if possible. After all, if the other guy is alive he might tell a different story than the gunner and that might complicate things. Ask George Zimmerman.
Make no mistake, it's not about self defense, it's about testosterone poisoning. FBI data from the Victims data base prove that resistance to armed robbery is 4x more likely to cause injury to the victim and resistance with a gun is 5x as likely. If it's about preserving your life you're 5 times better off just giving the guy that ATM withdrawal. It's not about that, it's about who has the bigger dick.
Interesting quote from the Alex Jones trial . . .
— Scarlett Lewis, the mother of a child killed at Sandy Hook and plaintiff in the first of three defamation damages trials against Alex Jones,
What Jones did was to promote unfounded OPINION to a group of people susceptible to believing the government would murder 20 children to 'take away the guns.'
That's why it's important not to confuse OPINION with honest journalism. It's like equating religion to science.
If someone honestly cannot tell the difference they should follow Abraham Lincoln's advice and "Remain silent and be thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
If, on the other hand, they really do know the difference and speak anyway those who pay attention to them are the fools.
When will Canada sue the US like Mexico has?
TORONTO, Canada — A few weeks ago, the Rev. Sky Starr led a funeral in northwest Toronto for a 24-year-old shooting victim. Among the mourners, she noticed a young man.
"I saw this youth was kneeling at the casket, he was praying," Starr recalls. The next morning, she received a call letting her know the same young mourner was dead. He'd been shot and killed overnight.
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"Our problem in Toronto [is] handguns from the United States," Toronto Police Service Deputy Chief Myron Demkiw told Canadian parliamentarians during hearings on gun violence in February. In his city last year, he said, "86% of crime handguns [that are] able to be sourced were from the United States."
Our Southern neighbor is suing the major gun manufacturers in the US over their marketing practices that send guns flooding over the border. Now our Northern neighbor is complaining about our lax gun laws and proliferation of guns into their country. Half a dozen other nations have the US on a travel watch over our gun problem.
When will we as a country make that first step to recovery and admit that we have a problem? When will that minority of gun loving people here realize that they have been deceived by a money grubbing industry that has lied to them about their product?
GUNS DON'T MAKE YOU SAFE and now they are making our entire country a pariah just a step above Putin's Russia.
The gunners here on DU keep reminding me that hammers kill more people
than rifles. So from now on I'm carrying one of these for self defense!
And for concealed carry I've got one of these!
Just call me Mini Thor . . .
I was recently accused by a gunner here on DU of
shaming AR 15 owners.
I'm guilty. I am doing my best to shame the owners of these military grade weapons that are not good for hunting, target shooting, self defense or any other thing I can think of or imagine. Well, one thing as evidenced by the 319th mass shooting this year.
I'm following the example of MADD. Make those who are the problem aware that they are the problem.
Meanwhile as we have been distracted by Highland Park's tragedy . . .
In the last 72 hours there have been 413 other shootings. The number of victims ranged from 1 to 5.
You can read about every one of them here: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours On the far right you can click on 'source' to read the report on each of them.
What does each one of these tragedies have in common? A gun.
Since the '70s the gun makers have promoted more and more lethal weaponry. Before that guns were marketed for hunting and sport shooting. Now the emphasis is on 'self defense' which emphasizes lethallity of rate of fire and number of rounds in the magazine. Back in the '50s a gunshot victim had one, maybe two, wounds. Now the number is routinely 5 or more. Back then the standard issue police side arm was a .38 six shot revolver. Now it's a 19 round semi-auto. That makes it possible for police to shoot a suspect 60 times.
But still, we can't forget all the 'good' guns do. Every day, on average, one of the approximately 175 shootings was a 'defensive gun use'. One.
When will the RKBA crowd admit that it really is the guns, the sheer number and incredible lethallity?
7 killed, 46 injured in 10 weekend mass shootings nationwide
Combined, the shootings this weekend left at least seven people dead and 46 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a site that tracks shootings across the country. The website defines a mass shooting as a single incident involving four or more victims, which differs from the FBI's definition as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the suspect, are killed.
What Democrats asked for and Gun Violence activists support would have a major impact on this going forward, the watered down Law to satisfy Republicans and signed by Biden will do little. Yes it is a good thing to make incremental progress. Yes the bill will help reduce some domestic gun violence. Yes mental health funding is important if not for gun violence.
Make no mistake this isn't over. It took 19 dead children to get this compromise. How many will die to make some real progress?
Make a difference.
Good guy with a gun, the REAL story . . .
OMG! Crime! Be Afraid! Be very afraid!
Between 2010 and 2019 the violent crime rate in the US decreased 3.8%. Wait, what? I thought we were awash in crime! Is the gun culture trying to scare us into buyiing guns for self defence? Could be . . .
The FBI defines violent crime as: murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. As it turns out robbery is down 27%. The crime rate for the other categories are all up 11-14%.
Non violent crime: Property crime, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft are all down, between 3 and 48% depending on category.
So as it turns out the only crime rates that are up are the ones facilitated by firearms.
FBI crime stats.
So what happened to firearms sales from 2010 to 2019?
Might there be a connection?
Gun control over history
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