In Cicero's gun infested world, it's either Shoot em, or "get on your knees and beg for mercy". That's how he pictures life in America.
Sad.
every part of social engineering from your job to who gets to go first at the restaurant or walmart etc is still in effect....
it's called narcissus "I was here first, I pay your salary, I deserve respect etc etc"........
adding or removing guns doesn't change that..... because you can't define 'crazy'...but and MD with a diagnosis code CAN.. but the doctor/police/judges/lawyers are AAAALLLLL your friends.....feel safe giving them all the guns?????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
6 Family Violence reports, and they still had guns in the house.
Woman shoots boyfriend, kills self in Pearland neighborhood
by Sherry Williams / KHOU 11 News
khou.com
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Updated Thursday, Jan 17 at 11:07 PM
PEARLAND -- A shooting erupted in an upscale Pearland neighborhood Thursday evening.
A woman chased her boyfriend down with a gun into a neighbor’s backyard, before turning the gun on herself.
Pearland police say the woman shot and wounded her boyfriend in their home and he ran away trying to escape.
The Waddells were playing catch in their backyard when it all happened.
Chad Waddell heard, “Muffled gunshots probably from inside of a house and then immediately sirens. Next thing I heard six of them (gunshots) close… I can tell it’s outside .”
The father quickly put his son in the house and then grabbed his pistol -- just in case.
A few doors down, Bradford Roland looked out his kitchen window, “I heard a woman screaming. I saw her carrying a gun.” The college student said “I locked the doors and everything and prayed.”
The woman cornered her boyfriend in a backyard and fired twice, but didn’t hit anyone. An officer tried to get her to put down the weapon, but she shot and killed herself.
Neighbors are not surprised.
Last year, the woman showed up at the Jones’ household in the middle of the night, bruised and holding a guitar.
Shell Project Engineer Steve Jones remembered, “He’s a big guy, very big guy. She said ‘Just look at little old me.’ So she said that’s why she had the guitar to ‘ward him off.’”
Stephanie Waddell said, “As a mother of four kids, it’s scary knowing a lady was out in the street with a gun, shooting the boyfriend. One of the bullets could’ve hit a kid or anyone.”
It wasn’t immediately clear if the woman fired the gun in the street.
Life Flight took the boyfriend to Memorial Hermann Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Pearland police say they have filed six family violence reports involving the couple in the past two years.
Neighbors say the woman had recently moved back in with her boyfriend.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a suicide, homicide or accident than to be used in self defense!
Put a gun in your home, and you increase the danger to you, your family and friends!
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
Most family shootings or accidental home shootings are due to idiots that don't follow gun safety. Stupidity is self correcting. Lack of a gun won't stop someone from suicide. A gun in your home also greatly increases your chances of survival when you are being victimized.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a suicide, homicide or accident than to be used in self defense!
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
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a suicide, homicide or accident than to be used in self defense!
Guns in the hands of cops are more likely to cause more deaths by suicides than criminals do.
Guns in the hands of cops also often cause accidental shootings/deaths of their own family members.
I don't disagree with your statement.
But as I also said, stupidity is self correcting. Stupid people with guns are deadly. Cops or not.
Hunters have accidental shootings every hunting season. Firearms are dangerous.
Not nearly as dangerous as cars. Guns are relatively safer as compared to cars, poisons, drownings, fires and choking on food.
The Most Common Causes of Accidental Death
1. Motor vehicle crashes Deaths per year: 43,200 2. Falls Deaths per year: 14,900
Here we come to the America's Funniest Home Videos category of accidental death, including falls from ladders, down stairs, over curbs, off buses, into manholes, and through plate glass windows.
3. Poisoning by solids and liquids Deaths per year: 8,600
These would be all your commonly recognized poisons, as well as such items as mushrooms, shellfish, drug overdoses, and problems with medicines-which is a wide category, and why it is so high on the list.
4. Drowning Deaths per year: 4,000
This includes all sorts of drownings in boat accidents and those resulting from swimming, playing in the water, falling in, or even having a bath.
5. Fires and burns Deaths per year: 3,700
This would include deaths resulting from fires, such as smoke inhalation, falling beams, and sitting through Backdraft.
6. Suffocation Deaths per year: 3,300
Call this one the "Heimlich" section, as these deaths mostly resulted from blockages of the respiratory system by food or other objects.
7. Firearms Deaths per year: 1,500
We can thank our second amendment rights for all 1500 of these deaths; call it the "right to die" amendment. Of the 1500, you're looking at about 75% young males between the age of 14 and 25 (and getting younger every year), who unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
8. Poisoning by gases Deaths per year: 700
In this category, you mostly have deaths by carbon monoxide poisoning due to faulty operation of a heating or cooking appliance, or a standing automobile.
9. Medical & Surgical Complications and Misadventures Deaths per year: 500
We did not coin the term "medical misadventure"- the National Safety Council did. How is death by surgeon a "misadventure?" While we're not sure, we suspect that this number refers to elective surgeries that people undertake, such as liposuction. After all, the removal of a brain tumor is not usually considered to be an "adventure."
10. Machinery Deaths per year: 350
We can thank the farmers of America for the inclusion of this particular misfortune as a cause of death.
We can thank our second amendment rights for all 1500 of these deaths; call it the "right to die" amendment. Of the 1500, you're looking at about 75% young males between the age of 14 and 25 (and getting younger every year), who unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Adults especially older adults who tend toward suicide will often attempt suicide until they succeed. Young teens, teens and early 20's often attempt suicide once... if they don't succeed, many will never attempt suicide again ever in their lives. In these cases, if there is no weapon available, they often never kill themselves.
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
Sad.
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