Opinion /= data
Anecdote /= data
Correlation /= causation
Noone takes you seriously anymore.
Credibility is earned and you are so deep in the red that its probably better for you to just get rid of this username and start fresh.
Like you would know what normal looks like. pfft.
No, its fact, Trump supported an Assault Weapons ban just like you. He is immune to logic and reason just like you. He knows nothing but is sure about everything, just like you. You are losing at the game of life. I suspect that everyone around you thinks you are a loser and I suspect you know that they think this.
You really weren’t kidding about the no longer being civil thing. I think you are right however, so good on you.
Talking about a certain number of killings being “acceptable” as long as it doesn’t inconvenience gunstrokers is hardly “civil”.
Sigh… reread the damn thread, then. Don’t pretend you haven’t been shown, multiple times. Your denial is not anybody else’s mental health issue.
No one? Really? 
Okay, maybe you aren’t even five, talking that way.
I value human life. You only try to mimic it - and you fail.
If you cannot put your gun where you will remember to take it with you, you should not be taking your gun into the shitter – hell, you should not be carrying a gun around in the first place.
Major trial in Portland, of a bunch of gun-toting morons: a man was stopped near the courthouse carrying a rifle wrapped in a towel.
Which brings up an important issue: yes, the rifle was empty – but the average person cannot necessarily discern a loaded weapon from one which is not. Any gun represents a threat when it is pointed at you, because you cannot be certain that it cannot introduce lead into unwanted places.
Unless you can clearly see that it is a starter pistol or is leaking water.
Hey, let’s have another shooting. How about in a mall, up in some out of the way far corner of the country. How about 3 or 4 fatalities, in a nice overpriced anchor store. And how cool would it be if the shooter just walked away up the road?
Frightened when his driver takes a wrong turn into the 'hood, an Atlanta attorney shot his wife in the back, killing her.
Hi, I’m Tex, I’m alarmed and sleepy, where’s mah guuurn??
Some guys at a restaurant went out to their car and came back as Bad Guys with Guns, and started shooting at some Good Guys who also had guns. Thankfully there were some other Good Guys with Guns eating in the restaurant, so all the Good Guys were able to take out the Bad Guys and save the day without anyone getting seriously hurt.
Just kidding! It was a chaotic shitshow and three people are dead, twelve wounded. I guess more of the patrons should’ve been armed.
Nothing in the linked article suggests that anyone in the restaurant was an armed bystander. What I’m reading between the lines is that armed gang members confronted armed gang members. So no, it’s not a demonstration of legal carry leading to a free-for-all shootout.
The article has changed significantly since I posted the link, and originally implied that there was a third group of customers who began firing (in addition to the aggressors and the targets). It did not mention police speculation of a “possible narcotics transaction” or the suspects having “street names,” which I’ll assume are the lines between which you read to find the absent words “gang members.”
Nevertheless, I withdraw my comment, and we’ll consider this one another win in your column. If only there had been more legal guns present…
“I said no substitutions!” woulda made a better headline.
Let me save our hard-working gun nuts a click:
Can you prove she’d still be alive if hubby didn’t own a gun?
(Anyway, does an uncocked revolver fire unassisted? Maybe the guy just committed a perfect murder:
“I don’t know what happened, Your Honor. One moment I was playing with my gun; the next moment she was dead.”
“Oh. Why didn’t you say this was America? Case dismissed!”
)
Thank you. That’s uncommonly gracious in a gun thread.
Was I too mean?
At least two road rage shootings recently in KC (I thought it was three, but can’t find the third one):
Found #3 - possibly not road rage:
But by all means, let’s let anyone who wants a gun have one - Missouri having just removed the need for permits to do concealed carry, and I believe Kansas got rid of theirs a while back.
How many shooting murders committed by law abiding citizens that are not prohibited persons in a given year? How many defensive gun uses are there in a given year? There is a benefit to having legal ownership of guns in society. We really ought to look into what the costs and benefits are.
BTW, the second one might not have been road rage either.
It would be nice if someone would collect those stats. The CDC might be a good place to start for the shooting side, but they are prohibited from doing it.
The defensive gun uses is going to be harder, both for definitional reasons (what is a defensive gun use?) and for reporting reasons. If someone gets shot, it usually (not always) gets reported. But if someone successfully uses their gun defensively, there is not necessarily any reason for them to report. And depending on the definition, you would probably also need to deal with people claiming false episodes (although that would probably be rare).