The GOP, the Vote, Guns and You, America

Guess which it wants to have less of, if not even do away with?

The 3 Stated, Official Goals of the March For Our Lives Students and Movement

These are the 3, stated, official goals of the March For Our Lives students and movement, according to their site.

1. Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Of the 10 deadliest shootings over the last decade, seven involved the use of assault weapons.

No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only. These guns have no other purpose than to fire as many bullets as possible and indiscriminately kill anything they are pointed at with terrifying speed.

2. Prohibiting the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the ones the shooter at our school—and so many other recent mass shootings used.

States that ban high-capacity magazines have half as many shootings involving three or more victims as states that allow them.

Limiting the number of bullets a gun can discharge at one time will at least force any shooter to stop and reload, giving children a chance to escape.

3. Closing the loophole in our background check law that allows dangerous people who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase firearms to slip through the cracks and buy guns online or at gun shows.

That's it. That's all. It's not long. It's not complicated. It's very doable and people will still have weapons.

Statistics on America and Guns

Facts, statistics, hard data, not opinions or emotions or, worst of all, emotional opinions on guns.

--America has 4.4 percent of the world's population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns.

--In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. In 2011, the last year for which we have numbers, the UK endured 146 gun deaths total — or 2.3 gun deaths per million people.

Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate:

--Countries with more guns have more gun homicides. 

--States with more guns have more gun homicides. 

--Individuals with guns in the house are likelier to be killed or to kill themselves with guns.

--Nearly two-thirds of gun deaths in the US are suicides. And having guns in the home make those suicides far more likely.

--There are more than 32,000 Americans shot and killed, each year, in America by weapons.

--Of those, approximately 10,000 of those shot and killed are children.

The time has come. We need to do this, America. We need to reduce the numbers of us killed each year by and with weapons.

Link to original article:  What no politician wants to admit about gun control

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt on "The Late Show With David Letterman"

Yessirree, Bob, none other than our own Missouri Senator Roy Blunt was on the best late-night talk show there is last night. The only trouble is--for the Senator, anyway--it wasn't in person and it wasn't good for him.

For those who don't know, Dave does a segment called "Stooge of the Night" wherein Dave lampoons the Senators who voted against the weapons background checks last month, even though their constituents poll solidly for it.  The fact is, 85% of Missourians are for background checks but our Senator voted against them.

An example, in case you've never seen one and is, coincidentally, about next-door-neighbor in Arkansas' Senator John Boozman:



As soon as CBS posts it, I'll put it here, likely.

For now, here is a link to more "Stooge of the Night" segments:

http://www.youtube.com/results?q=Stooge+of+the+night&sitesearch=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w1

Americans are for background checks

It's just a great, simple, intelligent idea.

We need background checks at gun shows and weapons stores for the mentally unstable and for criminal backgrounds.  Right now, according to statistics from NPR  (National Public Radio), only 40% of all weapons purchases in the US.

That's irresponsible.

The time has long since come for this.

Yeah, we definitely need more guns

From The Huffington Post today: 5-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shot And Killed By Twin CHICAGO — The twin 5-year-old boys had just climbed out of the bathtub and into their pajamas the night before the first day of kindergarten when a relative's handgun they'd found went off. The bullet struck Jonathan Jackson in the stomach. Less than an hour later, after being rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, he was pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. Monday. If you go to the link, you'll see he was a beautiful child. What a shame. And a waste. Link to original post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/5yearold-boy-accidentally_n_676869.html