When the Brady bill was introduced in 1987 it originally called for a five-day waiting period between buying a gun and taking it home. The idea was to implement a “cooling off period” as well as a thorough background check. The NRA succeeded in killing the waiting period. And the lack of it has been killing ever since.
Jackie Cornett and Caitlin Cornett were killed and Jackie’s 12-year-old daughter, Taylor, was in critical condition. The shooter, Dalton Stidham, turned himself into Kentucky State Police just hours after and admitted that he had shot them. Stidham had just bought the gun hours before he started killing.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
CNN host Piers Morgan continued to berate gun rights advocates on Wednesday, calling the NRA “cowards” on Twitter.
“I’ve repeatedly asked the @NRA leaders to come on my show, and they’ve repeatedly refused. Cowards, the lot of them,”
Here is Larry Pratt of Gun Owners Of America schooling Piers
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Haha watch Piers get pissed and throw his written arguments because they were getting crushed
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Keith Ratliff, owner of the most popular social media site for gun enthusiasts, was shot in the head in an apparent homicide at his business in northeast Georgia. His company FPS Russia is a high-power weapon and viral marketing sensation whose YouTube videos have been seen over 500 million times and is the 9th most popular channel on the website.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
If Piers Morgan is your poster boy for Gun control, you'd better go back to the drawing board.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
If Piers Morgan is your poster boy for Gun control, you'd better go back to the drawing board.
If Alex Jones is your poster boy for Gun Rights, you'd better go back to the drawing board!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
If Alex Jones is your poster boy for Gun Rights, you'd better go back to the drawing board!
I'm not the one posting his mug or quotes on this board, am I?
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
I'm not the one posting his mug or quotes on this board, am I?
Piers speaks for a lot of Americans... the NRA speaks for the Gun and Chemical Industries... Polls show that Piers is saying what most Americans think.
Universal background checks on gun buyers are favored by 92 percent of Americans, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. Support for the plan crosses demographics: 93% of gun households, 89%t of Republicans 85% of households with NRA members.
Washington Post-ABC News poll: ~ Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring the creation of a new federal database to track all gun sales in this country? 71%Support 21% Oppose
~Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons? 58%Support 39%Oppose
~Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on high-capacity ammunition clips, meaning those containing more than 10 bullets? 65%Support 32%Oppose
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Piers speaks for a lot of Americans... the NRA speaks for the Gun and Chemical Industries... Polls show that Piers is saying what most Americans think.
There are plenty of better poster boys, even in the press, for Gun control. Piers is a typical re-planted british tabloid journalist.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
"We are writing to urge your support for a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons." signed: -- Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan -- in a 1994 letter to Congress.
Quoted Text
The letter from three former presidents to the House:
May 3, 1994
To Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:
We are writing to urge your support for a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons. This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety. Although assualt weapons account for less than 1% of the guns in circulation, they account for nearly 10% of the guns traced to crime.
Every major law enforcement organization in America and dozens of leading labor, medical, religious, civil rights and civic groups support such a ban. Most importantly, poll after poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly support a ban on assault weapons. A 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll found that 77% of Americans support a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of semi-automatic assault guns, such as the AK-47.
The 1989 import ban resulted in an impressive 40% drop in imported assault weapons traced to crime between 1989 and 1991, but the killing continues. Last year, a killer armed with two TEC9s killed eight people at a San Francisco law firm and wounded several others. During the past five years, more than 40 law enforcement officers have been killed or wounded in the line of duty by an assault weapon.
While we recognize that assault weapon legislation will not stop all assault weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals. We urge you to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of these weapons.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Piers speaks for a lot of Americans... the NRA speaks for the Gun and Chemical Industries... Polls show that Piers is saying what most Americans think.
Universal background checks on gun buyers are favored by 92 percent of Americans, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. Support for the plan crosses demographics: 93% of gun households, 89%t of Republicans 85% of households with NRA members.
Washington Post-ABC News poll: ~ Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring the creation of a new federal database to track all gun salesspeech in this country? 71%Support 21% Oppose
~Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weaponsunpopular speech? 58%Support 39%Oppose
~Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on high-capacity ammunition clips, meaning those containing more than 10 bullets? 24 hour news networks and internet forums with unpopular speech?65%Support 32%Oppose
I wonder if box would support tyranny of the majority when limiting the other rights listed in the Bill of Rights? Or maybe he would change his tune and realize the Bill of Rights was meant to protect the minority from a tyranical majority. Or maybe not.
Before they became a shameless lobbyist, the NRA helped write federal laws restricting gun use.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The NRA helped write federal laws restricting gun use.
For nearly a century after, its founding in 1871, the National Rifle Association was among America’s foremost pro-gun control organizations. It was not until 1977 when the NRA that Americans know today emerged, after libertarians who equated owning a gun with the epitome of freedom and fomented widespread distrust against government—if not armed insurrection—emerged after staging a hostile leadership coup.
In the years since, an NRA that once encouraged better markmanship and reasonable gun control laws gave way to an advocacy organization and political force that saw more guns as the answer to society’s worst violence, whether arming commercial airline pilots after 9/11 or teachers after the Newtown, while opposing new restrictions on gun usage.
It is hard to believe that the NRA was committed to gun-control laws for most of the 20th century—helping to write most of the federal laws restricting gun use until the 1980s.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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