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I know there are 1,000 more reasons for gun control but no one's talking about the number of suicide attempts that would have actually been successful if there was a gun around; we all know how impulsive one can be mid-crisis and I feel like so many of us owe our lives to the fact that, thankfully, this impulsivity was hindered by the ineffectiveness of available means to off ourselves during said crises... Imagine being in that state while so readily able to act it out at any given moment with a terribly high possibility to succeed because there's a literal revolver hanging around in dad's drawer
Since it's been like 10 mins since I posted this and gun freaks that are unfamiliar with the concept of critical thinking are already going wack, it seems that I have to clarify:
I'm not claiming that gun control would prevent suicides, nor that there is a direct casual relation between gun-related laws and suicide rates; I'm referring to the specific situation in which a suicidal individual in crisis is prevented from carrying out their -often impulsive- plans by the lack of means that are both available and effective, while having a gun would make it easier for said individual to go ahead and actually kill themselves.
I am fully aware that this is far from the most important reason to advocate for gun control; it's simply an aspect of the matter that I, from personal experience, am able to add to the existing discussions.
You're post really doesn't add anything to "the discussion" though. You say that it is a reason to advocate for gun control, and then say that gun control wouldn't directly impact it. So, what exactly are you trying to get at? What laws would you propose that would decrease the amount of people shooting themselves?
Oops, I started a ridiculous challenge.
This is why it’s ridiculous, fyi:
Listen… my entire personal life is fucked… but I have written over 2000 words without using the letter ‘i’ even once… does that count for anything…
This is… I mean. Incredible. But terrifying.
You’ve written over 2000 words with no ‘it’. No ‘ing’. Oh God, no ‘ing’.
You’re a force to be reckoned with.
No ‘it’, no ‘is’, no ‘-ing’, no ‘in’, no ‘I’. I’m on 2,700 words now, and I’m… not sure how I’ve managed to do this. Dialogue is proving the biggest challenge, unsurprisingly. Why did I do this to myself?
So this is going to be like 15-20k when it’s done… um
If I finish this, I will probably count it amongst my greatest achievements.
Op you’re the most powerful person on writeblr right now
That’s good to hear because I’ve lost all semblance of control with respect to every other facet of my life, but
I’m maybe a third of the way through now?? So that’s good???? And now I’m going to have a very relaxing bath??????
I probably have about another 14,000 words to go and honestly, when I hit 10k (the expected halfway point), I’m going to treat myself to writing 100 words of something else that has the dang letter ‘i’ in it
Nearly wept when I realised I couldn’t use the word ‘frantic’ earlier, but
7.5k is my next milestone, and it actually might happen tomorrow, which is unnerving. How should I celebrate??
Getting really bad impostor syndrome today and feeling 95% sure that I will never amount to a thing and will probably never finish this story, and so in response to that dumb brain thought I did this
Suck it, subconscious.
You are a force of nature and I am both impressed and terrified.
Please publish this somewhere when you a e done so we can read it holy shit
I absolutely will!! In other news I hit 10k today and that’s without a thesaurus and oh golly, my poor think-box
This author is a sleeping God among mortals
The Earth fears their awakening into their full powers
Full powers yet to be confirmed, but after a short hiatus, I have returned
When I get to 12k, I might do a very elaborate jig
I really hope the title of your story is “Team.”
#my brain is hurting trying to even consider doing this
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For all the writers out there. Please reblog this!
B&T KH9-D with 210mm long barrel (standard one got 153mm barrel) coming with two Suomi, the 72-round drum and the 50-round coffin, magazines.
https://www.waffenboerse.ch/bruegger-thomet-kh9-d-9mm-para.html
I didn't know I wanted one of these until now
you know honestly even just limiting private gun ownership to low-capacity non-automatic hunting rifles too big to be easily concealed and little handguns that can only hold a couple of shots at a time would be extremely helpful to lowering the number of mass shootings we have to deal with
In what mass shooting was an automatic rifle involved? Can you name a single one?
Go ahead, i’ll wait.
Did Brevik use an automatic? It’s the only one I can think of
I was trying to just be specific. In any case, someone wielding a great big gun that holds six to eight rounds or so and needs a pretty good amount of aiming time and steady aim would be a lot easier to both publicly spot ahead of time and to like, tackle if they do open fire- and eight rounds that have to be aimed and would be difficult to just spray-shoot would also be a major harm reducer, while not affecting the livelihoods of subsistence hunters.
All guns need steady aim. Without aiming, you won't hit anything. Not to mention that a shooter that had standoff distance would be able to inflict far more horrific damage by methodically aiming each shot, plus being much harder to detect due to the distance, and not to mention the rounds used would be much larger than that of a .223 AR-15. This is all assuming that the shooter would use a rifle and not a pistol, and that the millions upon millions of just AR-15s just suddenly evaporated. Plus, the second amendment was not written for subsistence hunters. It was written as a defense against tyranny. Your proposal is not grounded in reality. I encourage you to take a hard look at the facts and form an educated opinion without relying on ignorance and anecdotes for the basis of your argument.
It says you went from California to NYC. California and New York have the most strict gun control laws in the nation, and yet see much violence committed with firearms. This whole issue is so much more complicated than firearms being accessible, much less semiautomatic rifles being available, which account for such a negligible amount of homicides it isn't funny. We have to move past the "what," being the weapons Americans are using to kill each other with, and actually focus on the "why" of it. Why are Americans killing each other? That is the real question, but everyone is far too occupied with "quick fixes" and guns to ever bother thinking about and addressing that. The left attack fundamental human rights, we dig in and hold on to it, and in the meantime this is all distracting from the reason why whatever tragedy at the moment occurred.
Friendly reminder: If you advocate gun control you are advocating gun violence against peaceful individuals
Without using guns how do you suppose to enforce it?
Veterans Day
I’m writing this on Sunday November 8th in preparation for a very important day on the calendar. Today, November 11th. Veterans Day. While i’m writing this, the song “Wrong Side of Heaven” is playing in the background and i’m drinking a glass of Jack Daniels. I take this day very seriously because it is very near and dear to my heart. My grandfather was in Burma during WW2, his father was in Europe in WW1, his grandfather was in the Civil War, fighting for the north. My father (different side of the family) was a Navy Veteran. His uncle is a Vietnam Veteran. His grandfather served in the Pacific Theater during WW2. My uncle is a CW5, he has served in the US Army for the better part of 30 years. Including multiple tours to both Iraq and Afghanistan. My uncle on my mom’s side was killed in Al Anbar Province on May 2nd 2004…. These are the facts…
300,000+
The estimated number of homeless veterans in America.
1.4 million
The number of veterans at risk of becoming homeless.
67%
The percentage of homeless veterans that served at least 3 years in the military.
42%
The percentage of increase of divorce rate among military veterans.
460,000+
The estimated number of veterans diagnosed with PTSD.
$5961.46
The amount of money allocated in the federal budget for the VA per 1 veteran in the U.S. (does not take into consideration salary for VA workers or any other costs of running the VA.)
50%
The percentage of veterans with PTSD who do not seek treatment.
19%
The percentage of veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
6 years
The average amount of time a homeless veteran spends homeless.
22
The number of veterans killed every day by suicide.
These are the numbers. There are different estimates from various sources but these are the ones I am going by. In the time it’s taking me to write this post, at least 2 veterans have committed suicide. This is a disgrace. A disgrace to our government and the people of America. Far too many times do I see people claim they support the veterans then turn around and do nothing to help. Your posts on Twitter or Facebook are not helping. Your bumper stickers you buy from Walmart aren’t helping. You truly believe yourselves to be altruistic angels. But your posts on social media only serve as lip service… So you can circumvent any actual sacrifices. You are not helping and we are sick of it. Years ago you probably threw a yellow ribbon on your car. “This will make me look like a good person!” You thought. But it won’t.
There are literally hundreds of charities and organizations out there that help veterans because our government is too busy bailing out other countries or sending future veterans to die in some far corner of the globe. There are millions of people in this country that sacrificed the best years of their lives for your protection…. Oh, and I already know the responses i’ll see. “Veterans didn’t protect us! They went and fought for corporate blah blah.” The term “veterans” includes those who fought in WW2, those who served in the National Guard and assisted in disaster relief. Veterans, all of them, took the same oath.
I,_____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;….”
When we join, we do so knowing and expecting to put our lives on the line in defense of every American. The circumstances of the wars we fight in are irrelevant in that aspect. Our main job is to protect the nation. The military itself acts as a deterrent. The reason why we’re safe is because we have a military.
These veterans do not ask for much. Just your support. Real support. It doesn’t require money or anything special. Find a veteran you know or don’t know, find one who is struggling. Talk to them. Let them know that you care and you are there to help them and support them if they need you. If you CAN donate, please do. If you CAN volunteer your time and effort to help a veteran, please do.
This is not political… this is being human.
The following is a list of veterans organizations. Thank you.
http://www.bootcampaign.com/
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/
http://aver.us/
http://www.hireheroesusa.org/
http://www.healingheroes.org/
http://lonesurvivorfoundation.org/
http://bva.org/
http://www.callofdutyendowment.org/
http://www.codeofsupport.org/
http://www.dav.org/
http://www.axpow.org/
http://www.homesforwoundedwarriors.com/
http://www.legion.org/
https://semperfifund.org/
http://www.tbbf.org/
http://www.teamrubiconusa.org/
http://www.wesoldieron.org/
http://www.nchv.org/
http://www.pva.org/
http://www.newbattlefront.org/
http://411veterans.com/
http://osdtn.org/
http://www.operationhomefront.net/
http://www.heartstringsforheroes.com/our-heroes
https://www.facebook.com/VetsVBN
https://ride2recovery.com/
http://www.realwarriors.net/
http://www.marineforlife.org/
http://www.moaa.org/
http://www.me.ngb.army.mil/family/
http://iava.org/
http://www.silverstarfamilies.org/home.aspx
http://trea.org/
http://www.raiderproject.org/
http://osdri.org/
http://www.veteransadvantage.com/
http://veteransfamiliesunited.org/
http://www.vfw.org/
http://operationsecondchance.org/
http://5fdp4vets.com/
http://soldiersangels.org/
http://militarywarriors.org/
http://www.nvam.org/
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
The following is a short list I came up with of veteran owned companies that you may consider supporting. They do a lot of good for the veteran community.
http://www.rangerup.com/
http://www.article15clothing.com/
http://www.veteranownedbusiness.com/
http://www.veteransartsandcrafts.com
I miss you Ben. I’ll always reblog this.
We’ll always miss you, bro.
Still can’t believe your aren’t here anymore man. Miss ya.
I miss you every day Ben. Reblogging to hopefully save someone else from the pain of having to hear the 21 gun salute and watch an incredibly close friend be lowered into the ground.
PSA Tumblr needs to see
There are Black gun owners
There are LGBT gun owners (like me)
There are female gun owners
There are Latino gun owners
There are Asian gun owners
There are disabled gun owners
Quit painting gun owners as violent white male red-necks who have murder fantasies. There are people ON THIS VERY WEBSITE who fall into the above categories. Take a look in the gunblr tag sometime, you’re bound to find them having civil and nonviolent discussions with everyone else.
Amen.
There’s no better time to call your representatives and encourage them to support reasonable legislation than now.
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If you want to contact your local government/governor/state legislature/etc, but don’t know how, you can always ask us and we will help you find out how.
-Eli
Hitler loosened gun restrictions but not for Jews. He disarmed them eventually after making it harder of not impossible for Jews to own guns. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/harcourt_fordham.pdf Compare Section III, in “Gun Control” Gateway to Tyranny at 18–19, to Section III, in Lethal Laws at 165 Section II, §3(5), in Lethal Laws at 163 Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons, 11 November 1938, in Lethal Laws at 183 ——— >for every 1% increase in gun ownership there is 1% increase in crime This study was already proven be false and misused the data and use a bad methodology. The existence of numerous research and studies showing now correlation between gun ownership and crime increase not only in America, but in other countries also proves this wrong. A good start for the problems with the study below http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2013/12/problems-with-public-health-research-michael-siegel-craig-ross-and-charles-king-the-relationship-between-gun-ownership-and-firearm-homicide-rates-in-the-united-states-1981-2010-ajph/ The study noted that while gun ownership is a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates, the correlation did not necessarily mean that higher ownership directly caused more gun-related killings. It also failed to look at the relationship between gun ownership and the reason for it. EX. In areas with high crime, it would be logical to buy a gun for self defense. This study you used would simply look at the raw numbers and not the relationship they have, and conclude that because there is high gun ownership, there is crime. It also makes no mention of how gun ownership nation wide is on the rise, while gun laws are laxer than ever before, with overall crime on a decline in this country. And I dont see anything about homicide being classified between justifiable homicide and non justifiable homicide. They even say they could not find causation. Consider the following information https://i.imgur.com/AhF5g2o.png https://i.imgur.com/Yo7QhaI.png https://i.imgur.com/drYpY7I.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0StHbUI.jpg
Banning guns would not reduce murder and suicide http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf No rise in mass shootings http://news.yahoo.com/no-rise-mass-killings-impact-huge-185700637.html Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware Guns are excellent self defense tools http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=R1 DOJ Study Fails to Show 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Worked http://ivn.us/2012/07/23/doj-study-fails-show-1994-assault-weapons-ban-worked/ Defensive gun usage high as 1.5 million http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/WP-Tough-Targets.pdf >64% of gun control advocates believe the incorrect assumption that gun crime has gone up http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/64_who_favor_more_gun_control_believe_gun_crime_has_gone_up Defensive Gun Use 55,000-80,000 DGUs/year - David Hemenway, Chance, Vol 10, No. 3, 1997 1 million DGUs/year - Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern) 87 (1997) / Harry L. Wilson, Guns, Gun Control, And Elections: The Politics And Policy of Firearms, ISBN 0742553485, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 108,000 DGUs/year - National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997) 250,000 to 370,000 DGUs/year - Paul Barrett (27 December 2012). “How Often Do We Use Guns in Self-Defense?” 497,646 (95% CI = 266,060-729,231) DGUs/year - Estimating intruder-related firearm retrievals in U.S. households, 1994.Ikeda RM1, Dahlberg LL, Sacks JJ, Mercy JA, Powell KE. Violence Vict. 1997 Winter;12(4):363-72. I threw in some DGU to show the importance of gun ownership in crime prevention vs crime that actually happens, which is very little if you do not try to inflate the number with suicide, which makes up nealy 2/3 of the numbers you guys like to push. —————— >people with CCW’s are 480% more likely to hold you at gun point This is a gross exaggeration and twisting of the data you sourced, that makes no mention of, or even alludes to the claim you present. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23153139 >RESULTS: CHL holders were much less likely than non licensees to be convicted of crimes. Your own source works against you. Even if there were a credible study on this, I would like to them differentiate from violent and non violent crimes, and arrests vs convictions and so on. Here is some more information about CCW holders and crime: 5.7 times less likely to be arrested for violent offenses than the general public 13.5 times less likely to be arrested for non-violent offenses than the general public Source: An Analysis of the Arrest Rate of Texas Concealed Carry Handgun License Holders as Compared to the Arrest Rate of the Entire Texas Population, William E. Sturdevant, PE, September 11, 1999 —————- >stand your ground increases murder rate by 7-10% >pic of crosshairs over the word minority Like with your claims of crime increase and violent CCW holders, the FBI crime stats do not agree. Every year all violent crime including murder has been decreasing along side with an increase in gun ownership and looser gun laws and implementations of SYG laws, that merely says you do not have to run away first before you try and defend yourself. The main flaw of the source you used is that the authors attempted to “guess” what the crime rate SHOULD have been, without SYG or Castle Doctrine, by comparing them to states that did not have those laws in place. As well as ignore the many many factors involved in how the numbers play out. They claimed that Missouri enacted Stand Your Ground and civil protection, but Missouri law includes limited enhancements and shouldn’t be counted. Even so, their dataset contained many other errors. For example, they claimed 17 states removed the duty to retreat during their study period — actually, 19 did. Twenty-two states provide civil liability protection — the authors included only 17 (see graph below). They correctly noted that 13 states enacted Presumption of Reasonable Fear, but they ignored four states that enacted “castle doctrine” laws: Idaho (2006), Maine (2007), Wisconsin (2008), and Wyoming (2008). And it the crosshairs bit was some cheap shot and attempt to underhandedly suggest that SYG is racist or bad for minorities, here is some info from Florida on that: “Blacks make up 16.6 percent of Florida’s population but account for 31 percent of the defendants invoking the stand your ground defense. Black defendants who invoke this statute are actually acquitted 8 percentage points more frequently than whites who use this very same defense.” Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-10-28/opinion/ct-oped-1029-guns-20131029_1_ground-laws-blacks-ground-defense http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/#ixzz2ZLLvPZjN http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/fatal-cases http://www.newsherald.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/the-racial-statistics-behind-stand-your-ground-1.186953 —————- >40% of legal gun purchases require no background check Based off 2 decade old data off 251 people that even the Vice President admitted is a bit shaky and probably inaccurate. Here is the document with the claim http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/pftest1.drupalgardens.com/files/Cook%20et%20al.%20%281996%29%20-%20Guns%20in%20America.pdf And this is the 1994 “phone survey” they used to make the claim http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/studies/06955 The 40% figure is off of a 30-40% estimate, in which the anti-gun crowd decided to use the 40% 20year number. The survey asked: “Was the person you acquired this gun from a licensed firearm dealer?” The answer choices were “yes,” “probably was/think so,” “probably not,” “no/definitely not,” “don’t know” and refuse to report. Cook and Ludwig found that 64.3 percent of those surveyed (Table 3.14) said that they had purchased or traded for a gun that came from a licensed dealer or “probably” did. The 40 percent figure comes from assuming that the remaining 35.7 percent — which has been rounded up — did not. Thats right, the 40% figure is based off a 20 year old assumption, off of 251 people in 1994 over the telephone. Ha. ———————— >50% of defensive gun uses are illegal This is based off 2 studies. One from 1996 and the other from 1999. 18 and 15 years old. Each a phone survey. They asked about their DGU and then asked 5 judges if the DGU was legal or not. The studies called 1905 people in the 1996 one, and 2521 in the 1999 one. In the 1996 survey, 27% refused to participate and in the 1999 survey 35% refused. In some of the calls they used it in their study even though the participant did not give any information when asked about gun use. The 5 judges asked to determine legality were from California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. California has the strictest gun control laws in the nation rated at #1 by the Brady Campaign Massachusetts comes in 3rd place Pennsylvania in 10th Each with their own laws on what you can and cannot do in self defense in general or with firearms. They were asked to give their best “GUESS” on if the DGU was legal or not. In the end a couple hundred stories were given to the judges, of which half the cases were deemed “likely as not legal, unlikely legal, or very unlikely legal. “ Bam, 50% of all DGU are illegal today. Haha. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730664/ http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/6/4/263.full —————- >5000000000000000000000000000000000000000% more likely to be killed in an attack if you use a gun for protection What a gross exaggeration and abuse of research and data on your part. Not only do multiple studies disagree, common sense would dictate if that were true, that criminals are all some operator tier special op gun experts who will always win, what kind of bullshit logic is that? These disagrees with you Guns are excellent self defense tools http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=R1 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/25/study-using-guns-for-defense-leads-to-fewer-injuries >Citing four separate studies between 1988-2004, the assessment from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council says crime victims who use guns in self-defense have consistently lower injury rates than victims who use other strategies to protect themselves (other strategies include stalling, calling the police or using weapons such as knives or baseball bats). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00539.x/abstract The previous links of DGU numbers and crime dropping since the 90’s also disagree. The study you link is bogus itself anyway for many reasons: The authors conclude that “on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault” and that successful defensive gun uses are unlikely. In fact, none of the evidence presented by the authors actually has any relevance to the issue of the effectiveness of defensive gun use, for the simple reason that at no point do they ever compare crime victims who used guns defensively with victims who did not. Instead, they made only the essentially irrelevant comparison between people who were shot in assaults with the rest of the population, noting whether gun possession was more common among the former than among the latter. Not surprisingly, after controlling for a handful of (badly chosen) control variables, they found that gun possession is more common among gunshot victims. This pattern, however, says nothing about the effectiveness of defensive gun use, but rather is merely a reflection of the fact that the same factors that place people at greater risk of becoming assault victims also motivate many people to acquire, and in some cases carry away from home, guns for self-protection. In sum, this is what researchers refer to as a “spurious” association – a non-causal statistical pattern due to the influence of some third factor(s) on the purported cause (gun possession) and the effect (gunshot victimization). For example, being a drug dealer or member of a street gang puts one at much higher risk of being shot, but also makes it far more likely one will acquire a gun for protection. Previous published research, however, has directly compared crime victims who used guns with victims who used other self-protective strategies (including doing nothing to resist), and reached precisely the opposite conclusions from those at which Branas et al. arrived (Kleck 1988; Kleck and DeLone 1993; Southwick 2000; Tark and Kleck 2004). Significantly, Branas et al. ignore all but one of these studies, and do not share with readers the main finding of the one study they do mention in passing (Kleck and DeLone 1993) – victims who resisted with guns were less likely to be injured that those who did not. Indeed, all published research to make such direct comparisons has yielded the same conclusion. The most authoritative study (Tark and Kleck 2004) used data from large-scale surveys conducted by the federal government (the National Crime Victimization Survey), covering large samples that were representative of the entire U.S. population, compared 18 different self-protection victim strategies, and controlled for far more confounding variables than Branas et al. did. The results indicated that the probability of success in defensive uses of guns approaches 100% - it is virtually unheard of for a crime victim to be injured after using a gun for self-protection. More specifically, only 2% of gun-wielding victims were injured after using a gun for self-protection (p. 878). On the rare occasions that gun-using victims were hurt, it was almost always injury that came first, followed by armed resistance – i.e., injury provoked previously reluctant victims into finally using their guns. Strictly speaking, the results of Banas and his colleagues do not conflict with those of prior researchers; rather, they are simply irrelevant, and do not actually bear on the use of how effective defensive gun use is. The authors draw a non sequitur conclusion from irrelevant evidence. They find that gun shot victimization is more common among those who have guns, and conclude that gun possession raises one’s risks of being shot. It is precisely as if medical researchers found that insulin use is more common among persons who suffer from diabetes than among those who are not diabetic (something that is most assuredly true), and concluded that insulin use raises one’s risk of diabetes. This silly conclusions would certainly come as a surprise to medical researchers, and is obviously wrong. So is the conclusion drawn by Branas et al. Cited Studies Kleck, Gary 1988 “Crime control through the private use of armed force.” Social Problems 35:1-21. Kleck, Gary and Miriam A. Delone 1993 “Victim resistance and offender weapon effects in robbery.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 9:55-81. Southwick, Lawrence 2000 “Self-defense with guns.” Journal of Criminal Justice 28: 351-370. Tark, Jongyeon, and Gary Kleck. 2004. “Resisting Crime.” Criminology 42:861-909. Not to mention the biggest flaw of all with these sorts of numbers people like to push out, most of them always include “suicide” to inflate the numbers of dying or being hurt by your own gun AKA “having it used against you” ——————————- >gun ownership is decreasing >same people keep buying the guns Wrong. It is rising back up. Page 15 https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/tkzv4c1e8v/econTabReport.pdf http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2541876 http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/self-reported-gun-ownership-highest-1993.aspx Besides distrust in the government is getting bigger and bigger, one has to take into consideration how many people were willing to even tell the truth on these surveys. Its no secret that a lot of the anti gun crowd and people in power want outright bans or registrations. —————- Outside of the dated and misleading “facts” you present, the pictures you use and the language you use do not help you if filled with name calling (gun nuts) and inaccuracies on how a gun works (the mini uzi shooting rounds bigger than the magazin the gun takes) and using Nazi Swastikas to represent the NRA and using crosshairs over the words “minority” and “you” Then you go on to include “reason>fear” Ha. Lets talk some other facts you may unwilling to acknowledge. >64% of gun control advocates believe the incorrect assumption that gun crime has gone up http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/64_who_favor_more_gun_control_believe_gun_crime_has_gone_up >53% of Americans oppose stricter gun laws http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/march_2014/53_oppose_stricter_gun_control_laws >64% of Americans believe it would be bad if only the government had guns http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/64_think_it_would_be_bad_if_only_government_had_guns >62% of Americans believe that the government wouldn’t fairly enforce gun laws http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/62_don_t_trust_government_to_fairly_enforce_gun_control_laws >74% of Americans believe that the Constitution allows them to own a gun. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/74_think_americans_have_constitutional_right_to_own_a_gun I would like to post the official numbers from the centers for disease control and Federal Bureau of Investigation In 2013 there were roughly 32,000 deaths from guns. 19,200 were suicides, thats 60% of what the media reports as “gun violence” 960 were accidents 1280 were justified homicides 10,560 were actual homicides The FBI reports that approximately 80% of homicides are directly gang on gang violence That leaves 2112 in a society of 312,000,000 people Now lets do some basic math >You have a 0.000102564% chance of being shot >0.00000984% chance if you arent a gang member or planning on killing yourself The United States has a staggeringly low rate of gun violence. Period. Sauce- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm 15,000+ Police surveyed on Gun Control. Turns out they dont like gun control much and feel safer when citizens are armed. Article http://www.policeone.com/corporate-profile/press-releases/6188461-PoliceOne-com-Releases-Survey-of-15-000-Law-Enforcement-Professionals-about-U-S-Gun-Control-Policies/ PDF with all the questions asked to officers and results: https://ddq74coujkv1i.cloudfront.net/p1_gunsurveysummary_2013.pdf http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/commsumm.nsf/b4a3962433b52fa787256e5f00670a71/5de089825c00843e872579b80079912d/$FILE/SenState0305AttachB.pdf >Upon interviewing convicted felons, these researchers found that >74% indicated that burglars avoided occupied dwellings, due to fears of being shot >57% said that most criminals feared armed citizens more than the police >40% of the felons had been deterred from committing a particular crime, because they believed that the potential victim was armed Gun homicide rate down 49% http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/ Banning guns would not lower crime or suicide http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf Most Americans do not want gun control or gun bans http://i.imgur.com/pfalHAN.png http://i.imgur.com/DLU3Oxu.jpg http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun-ban.aspx The following is your chances of being killed by a knife vs a gun in a “mass shooting” vs being killed by a cop http://pastebin.com/ZGKtmB2t tl;dr You are 75% more likely to get stabbed to death than killed in a random public mass shooting. You are THIRTY-TWO times more likes to be killed by LAW ENFORCEMENT than by a random mass shooter. 0.00000396% chance of being killed by mass shooting. Or 1 / 25,253,000 chance of being a random mass shooting death Chance of dying by a gun in general? 0.0095% Chance of dying by a gun not including suicide that is often used to pad the numbers against gun owners? 0.0032% What about other things? Unintentional fall deaths Number of deaths: 26,009 Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.4 Motor vehicle traffic deaths Number of deaths: 33,687 Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.9 Unintentional poisoning deaths Number of deaths: 33,041 Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7 All poisoning deaths Number of deaths: 42,917 Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.9 All Drug poisoning deaths Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.4 (2010) All firearm deaths Number of deaths: 31,672 Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.3 Guns? 10.3 for deaths total in general (remember how suicide was the bulk here) Broken down 3.6 for homicide 6.3 for suicide 0.30 for unintentional 0.10 undetermined You are more likely to fucking trip and die than be killed by a gun. Sources are FBI and CDC, just google for once. Gun control also fails to explain how it will deal with home made guns. They are really easy to produce, even in full auto. It does not explain how it will take away the millions of guns from ciminal hands or what it will do with unregistered guns or Mexico bringing them in along with their guns and people. They time and time again show we cannot secure our boarders. Let alone that it is the right of the people to own guns, protected by the constitution. And that the police are under no obligation to protect you thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. And I see no one explaining why most “mass shootings” happen in gun free zones as opposed to everywhere else, and why crime is always highest in areas with very strict gun control and until recently, where guns were outright banned. —————— But please tell me more about guns and how we need to ban these dangerous evil things.
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Me, when people are arguing .45 ACP vs 9mm when it comes to terminal ballistics.
Pistol rounds are inherently shitty when it comes to actually taking down a threat. In reality, 9mm and .45 are backup calibers for a reason. They can poke holes in things and that’s about it. The difference between them when they enter tissue is so minimal it’s not even worth stressing about. Your 9mm and your .45 will both do the job of a backup gun perfectly well.
Basically, both are perfectly fine options. Yes the 1911 holds 7-10 rounds depending on the magazine but reloads are a very real thing that, with training can be pretty damn quick. Yes your Glock XX holds a bunch of ammo, but not every defensive shooting is a firefight and you’re not Jason Bourne.
Pick whatever you’re comfortable with, train with it and stop being elitist ass clowns about it.
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@metal-queer-solid is the kind of person that carries a .40
He actually hates .40.
Why do Republicans want guns so badly anyway? What or who are they even so afraid of?
Why is your argument based around Republicans/stereotypes?
Seriously, why? I absolutely would not call myself a republican. I am a bisexual Soldier that holds a lot of "liberal" views on things. I am not afraid of anything, just armed and prepared in case someone wants to grievously harm or kill me based on my sexuality. I am prepared to defend those around me from the same as well. Your assertion that it's only republicans that are interested in being armed completely alienates everyone else, including those on "your side." Owning the means to defend yourself and others is a right that EVERY American has, not just Republicans.
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Airports are so weird.
Tax free shopping. Random people handing you pamphlets for various cul- I mean TOTALLY legitimate religions. You’re not sure if the people who work there are humans. Every pilot looks like a cool uncle. Priests eating at a chic fil A next to a table with an overweight family wearing Disney shirts. Thousands of people that you’ll never see again in your life but you all share a common goal of just getting on your fucking flight. TSA agents making people take their clothes off. This guy just walked out of the smoking area into the terminal with a freshly lit cigarette…. somehow I always see a furry wearing a clip on tail… always… DOGS!!! People seeing their family for the first time in god knows how long… Airports are another planet.
EDIT: I JUST SAW A PRIEST WEARING A FULL ROBE AND EVERYTHING WHLE ALSO WEARING A FRESH PAIR OF JORDANS!
He about to dunk on you in the name of the Lord.
Rusty Nail’s Recipes
Dear Drinkers.
I do hope you, and yours, are enjoying this St. Valentines Day.
However.
We are here gathered. In recognition. In remembrance. In celebration.
We gather here, today, for Spock The Cat.
Spock has, sadly, passed. I can only offer Wiggles my deepest, and most heartfelt condolences.
Spock, however. Spock, I am certain, left this world knowing that above, and beyond all else. He was loved. By his mom, most of all. But also by thousands; by *Thousands*, who reached their five fingers out to his seven, and sought to assist him in his hours of need. And assist him we did, and we have. There’s still one Donor Recipe to come, and don’t think I’ve forgotten it. First, though. Remember his space-eye? The sideways growing claw? The Polydactyl-Polydactyly? Remember him. Remember this goober of a butt, who, no doubt, wherever he is, is trying to grab onto something using far too many toes. I know of at least one thing he managed to grab onto. All of our hearts. Goodbye Spock, and Good Boy. It is with both a heavy heart, and deep honor, that The Pony Keg inducts its first honoree from real life.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s Spock The Cat.
I have no rose to lay before your marker. No dirt to toss upon your soil. I’ve got this, buddy. So this’ll have to do.
A Spock The Cat
Ingredients:
2oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
1oz Gosling’s Black Seal rum
1oz Rumchata
1oz Amarula Cream liqueur
Frozen Tumbler.
Ice
Chocolate Syrup
Magic Shell
A plate
A brand new paintbrush, one of the little tiny ones, that you’re going to clean, and only ever use for this.
A Ferrero Rondnoir. (This is the Dark Chocolate version of a Ferrero Rocher)
A Swizzle-Stick. (You can ask, if you don’t know what these are, they’re cocktail stirrers, you want ones that are kinda pointy on one end.)
Special Equipment:
A Cocktail Shaker.
Making a Spock The Cat.
Place Tumbler into freezer. Get this as cold as possible.
Pour Magic Shell and Chocolate Syrup onto the plate in a 2 Magic Shell to 1 Chocolate Syrup squeeze ratio, then swirl up with paintbrush.
Remove glass from freezer, and, using paintbrush, paint on a big chocolate spot on the inside of the glass. Put it back in the freezer for an hour or so. Repeat this twice more.
Pour Godiva, Gosling’s, Rumchata, Amarula, and Ice into Shaker.
Shake!
Gently, but firmly, while it’s still inside it’s foil, push the cocktail stirrer all the way through the chocolate. So that it’s sitting where it’d be partially, but not wholly, submerged by the drink.
Remove glass from freezer
Place Stirrer-Garnish in glass, without scratching chocolate, but without wasting time.
Strain shaker into glass.
Drink!
You’ve just finished making a Spock The Cat!
This recipe uses the same technique I’ve used a few times on here, of freezing chocolate on the walls of the glass. This time, with the white drink, the chocolate splotches will give the resemblance of Spock’s Coat. The garnish, peeking up out of the drink? Why, that’s Spock’s goofy Space-Eye. And the warm feeling this drink’ll leave in your chest and cheeks? That’s a thought or two, for the little guy this drink honors.
And hey, if you really feel you need to do something, why not donate to a really worthy cause, in Spock’s name.
RIP Spock. I'll hoist one for you.