I do believe murderphobia is irrational. One is far less likely to be murdered in the US than to die of heart disease. However, one is far more likely to be murdered in the US than in Canada. Also, the government has reserved the right to indefinite detention without trial of US citizens, which is pretty tyrannical.
What I love is how many fat asses I see talking about needing guns for home protection. If they want to live longer, go for a jog.
Well, if they do that, they should take a gun, in case they see someone in a hoodie.
I love that in the handful of anecdotes from the Armer Citizen, on the* very first page*, they have anecdotes from 1985 and from 1979! I know this isn’t a systematic catalog, but sheesh, it’s really hard to see how you’re going to get to more than a couple hundred within a year.
But you know what? I’m thrilled, assuming these stories are accurate, for their outcomes.
Leftish Radio Guy Norman Goldman has been trying to make the point that some gun regulation will help to preserve the 2nd Amendment while jerks like in the OP only hasten its end by making Normals freak out. He has a point.
And having a gun is going to help with the bit I bolded? I suppose if you consider a protracted siege and eventual death by SWAT team a win…
Which is relevant if you know a lot of gun control advocates who are pro-heart disease.
I don’t know where you are but in Northern Virginia, the guys at the gun range are generally physically fit (or at least not terribly out of shape). But that might not be a representative sample of gun owners in the area.
I think gun ownership should come with a requirement to go to the gun range at least once a year. Kind of like a safety inspection to make sure you know how to use your guns and for a bit of education on gunlaws and the importance of gun safety.
It seems pretty obvious at this point that an AWB is dead and even a cap on magazine capacity is not getting very much traction. BUT it does look like we might get universal background checks. I haven’t heard anything about a national gun registry or national gun licensing standards but I hope someone brings it up.
Here are 58 new incidents in this week’s GunFail blog update.
Four of the 28 non-suicide/murder stories involve either dropping or leaving a gun in the bathroom/restroom. Guns and toilets apparently do not mix.
Here’s a good one:
When I click the link, it comes up to January 31, 2013. Maybe you have a browser setting issue?
ETA: A handfull? There’s 11 pages when I load it.
You don’t suppose any problems at ATF would have to do with the campaign by conservitves to hamstring it in anyway possible, including blocking the appointment of a permanent director* for the last six years?*
They really don’t, actually, because most handguns are carried in waistband belt holsters, and using the toilet typically involves dropping your pants. It’s very easy to have a gun drop out of a waistband holster that doesn’t use a retention strap when a person drops their pants to use the loo, or for a person in the next stall to try to grab the gun out of the holster if they spot it while the gun owner’s pants are around his/her ankles - and if the person puts the gun on the the back of the toilet to avoid those problems, then the person risks forgetting to pick the gun back up when he/she is done. This was actually discussed in my CCW class, and the instructors’ recommendation was to remove the gun from the holster and place it in the crotch of the pants, which makes it impossible to absentmindedly forget it.
Have you not read your own link? Item 15: “December, 1979”. Item 19: “December, 1985.”
So, unless my browser is inserting text, then not a browser problem.
Also, I too get 11 pages. Even including incidents from the year that Superbowl 13 was played, there are 22 items on page 1. 22 times 11 is indeed a handful of incidents.
Many of the blog entries also include a “from the archives” item as well as the recent one.
Potato rounds. Mmmmm!
I’d prefer the law to say you may only open carry “large” weapons, if there must be open carry laws at all. That way, we’d all be much more likely to know that a gun-toting idiot is in the area.