There are those who think gun regulation is a losing issue to campaign on for political office. Some even go so far as to call it a STUPID thing to have gun control as a plank in the Democratic Party Platform, call those who promote gun regulation STUPID and post STUPID stuff that sometimes gets hidden because that's a STUPID thing to do on a Democratic discussion board.

Well, I have some news for those who think running on gun regulation is STUPID.

In the last three election cycles 95 new Democratic representatives have been elected to the House running on restricting gun access as one of their top issues. 95 new voices added to the anti gun violence voices already in that 435 member body. That's a 20% gain in the House. Forty of those 95 defeated NRA supported Republicans. There is now a rather large pro gun safety majority in the House.

In 2018 Tammy Baldwin, Ben Cardin, Sherrod Brown, Tom Carper and Bob Casey ran for and won seats in the Senate after being endorsed by Moms Demand Action and including gun regulation as a top campaign issue. In 2020 John Hickenlooper ran for Senate against Cory Gardner and defeated the NRA backed Republican after passing background checks and banning high capacity magazines as Governor of Colorado. That's six new pro gun control Senators in as many years.

Gabby Gifford's organization endorsed 300 state legislators in 34 states and 256 won their elections. In 2019 that organization flipped the VA House AND Senate electing 24 pro gun control candidates.

Even Mitch McConnell is reading the tea leaves and knows that running against gun safety is a losing proposition which is why he instructed John Cornyn to negotiate a gun reform bill in the Senate with Democratic leaders.

I think it is time to put that tired old “gun control is a losing issue” to rest because that's a STUPID argument.

I also think that supporting organizations that promote gun regulation is a winning strategy. Look what the gun control movement has done in the last decade. Think how much further we can go supporting the momentum they've built in such a short time.

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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.

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.

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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.

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 . . .

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.

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?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/killed-46-injured-10-weekend-mass-shootings-nationwide/story?id=85782585

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.

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?