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Ryn Dreamstrider Artist: James Brady World of Warcraft TCG: Heroes of Azeroth (2006)
As Woody Guthrie might have said: This machine kills people
Sound Opinion: You’re Wrong About Guns; They Do Kill People - Lots of Them
Guns don’t kill people, you say?
Sound Bites and Lynyrd Skynyrd say you’re wrong.
Hand guns are made for killin’/they ain’t no good for nothin’ else, Skynyrd sang back in 1975, before being armed to the teeth somehow became associated with patriotism.
Not only do guns kill people, they kill lots of people. In America, 315 people are shot and 93 die from gunshot wounds every single day.
These statistics come from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The campaign is named for James Brady, namesake of the expired Brady Bill and the press secretary for Ronald Reagan who was permanently disabled by a gunshot wound that eventually killed him.
Guns are so dangerous that a couple of fake ones nearly killed Marilyn Manson when they fell on him during a concert last week.
You can be intellectually dishonest with yourself and others - Hey! Maybe you should run for Congress! - and say guns don’t kill people. But they do. This week in Las Vegas, guns killed 58 people enjoying a country-music concert when Stephen Paddock - in possession of 40 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammo - started picking them off from a hotel window four football fields away with faux-automatic weapons, which are perfectly legal in our society.
Guns made the massacre possible. A knife or a grenade wouldn’t have worked. Paddock was too much of a pussy to put himself and risk and no one could throw a grenade that far - even from 32 stories up.
If guns don’t kill people, then neither do cigarettes, opioids or WMD. Because we can’t do anything about guns, you say, should we also stop regulating cigarettes, give up on fighting the opioid epidemic and let Kim Jung-Un amass whatever he wants? After all, his weapons won’t kill people.
He will.
Right?
Wrong.
But unregulated gun ownership is enshrined in the Constitution, you say?
Well, yeah, if you take the Second Amendment out of context and twist its meaning. But the nifty thing about the Constitution is it can be amended to fix mistakes. The Second Amendment is itself an amendment.
Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, that sacrosanct little document said white people could own black people. It said that women and people who didn’t own land couldn’t vote. And it said you couldn’t have a drink.
Pretty cool, huh?
Just kidding. That’s not cool at all. People eventually figured it out and amended the Constitution.
But you know what is cool, like really, super, awesomely cool? We could amend the Constitution - or better yet, pass some reasonable laws - to prevent unfettered access to machines built only to kill people.
Those machines are called guns.
And they kill people - 34,000 every year right here in the home of the brave.
That’s unacceptable.
10/4/17
John Hinckley Granted Unconditional Release — 41 Years After Shooting Reagan
John Hinckley Granted Unconditional Release — 41 Years After Shooting Reagan
Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin was granted unconditional release on today, 41 years after he tried to kill the then-president, the NY Post reports. John Hinckley Jr., now 67, was found not guilty in the aftermath of the March 30, 1981, attack by a jury that declared him insane. He subsequently spent two decades in a mental hospital. In 2003, US District Judge Paul L. Friedman began allowing…
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Written By: James Brady Narrated By: Michael Prichard Publisher: Tantor Media Date: November 2007 Duration: 12 hours 0 minutes
A 'no' vote on lifting restrictions on John Hinckley
A ‘no’ vote on lifting restrictions on John Hinckley
John Hinckley wants a judge to grant him unconditional release, to lift the restrictions under which he must navigate his way back into society.
You remember Hinckley. He was acquitted on grounds of insanity after he shot Ronald Reagan in March 1981, damn near killing the 40th president of the United States.
President Reagan recovered from his wound. White House press secretary James Brady,…
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ESPN is Lost and so are We
ESPN is Lost and so are We
ESPN ignited a controversy this past week with it’s handling of a situation involving Jemele Hill, a black woman who co-anchors the SportsCenter desk (The Six for it’s 6 pm slot) for the company along with Michael Smith, a black man. Ordinarily these definers might seem strange but we live in strange times. They are important because racism still exists and is bolstered by our current political…
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Uso de armas de fuego en Estados Unidos genera 93 muertes diarias
Uso de armas de fuego en Estados Unidos genera 93 muertes diarias
Estados Unidos.- La página web de la Campaña Brady reveló que 93 ciudadanos mueren como consecuencia de un impacto de vela, y al año la cifra es de 309 personas.
La media de personas que reciben un impacto de bala en Estados Unidos es de 309 personas diariasy anual son 114.994 personas. Campaña Brady señaló que las cifras dejaron ver que por cada diez ciudadanos hay nueve armas, y esa cifra es…
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