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Written by :Stone
Why not have background checks on everyone buying a gun? It is not a big ask for anyone seriously interested in reducing gun crime. I know, I could just look up Brady for the standard NRA reply, but hey surprise us!
Written by :Stone
I like this one, because it would prevent psychos buying guns. What’s a psycho?
Written by :Stone
So you would not be supporting the decision of Judge Laurence Silberman who found that the Second Amendment right supports not locking guns away from children, or having to fit lifesaving trigger guards.
Written by :Stone
Do you have link to that one. I’m not suggesting it is wrong, I just never came across it when I was reading about the pending Supreme Court decision on the second amendment.
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20 Shot In Chicago In Less Than 24-Hours
NBC5.com ^ | April 19, 2008
Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:31:42 PM by Toddsterpatriot
CHICAGO -- The weekend has gotten off to an especially violent start, with no fewer than 20 people shot on the streets of Chicago, three of them fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Saturday.
About 12:50 p.m. Friday, a girl was wounded in the arm when she and another person were shot at 2714 W. 66th St. A Chicago Lawn police sergeant said two people were shot and "one of the victims,'' a girl, was shot in the arm. The sergeant would not disclose the girl's age. The girl was taken to Holy Cross Hospital.
About 3:30 p.m., a 15-year-old girl was shot in the thigh in the South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood.
The girl was shot on the 8700 block of South Euclid Avenue and taken to Comers Children's Hospital in "stable" condition, according to police.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the arm about 5:40 p.m. on the 2700 block of West 64th Street, police said.
About 6:30 p.m., a teenage boy was shot in the South Side's Marquette Park neighborhood. He was shot in the 6000 block of South Campbell Avenue, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said. The boy was taken to University of Chicago's Comers Children's Hospital.
A 34-year-old man was shot to death about 7 p.m. at 714 W. 115th St., according to the medical examiner's office. Marcus Hendricks was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak lawn at 8 p.m. As responding officers investigated the shooting, shots were fired at the police. Officers recovered an AK-47 assault rifle from the Union Avenue address.
About 8:15 p.m., two men, aged 25 and 24, were driving south on the 8200 block of South Muskegon Avenue, when they heard shots fired, according to police News Affairs Officer David Banks, citing preliminary information.
The men realized they had been hit, and drove themselves to Jackson Park Hospital, Banks said. Their injuries are not considered to be life-threatening.
Two 18-year-old men were fatally shot about 9:30 p.m., in the 7500 block of South Phillips Avenue, according to Langford. The address of the shooting was 7555 S. Phillips Ave., according to the medical examiner's office.
One of the men suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and back, the other was shot in the neck, according to a report from the police First Deputy Superintendent's office.
Melvin Thomas, of 14922 Washington Ave. in Harvey was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute at 1:20 a.m. Rhonell Savala, of 9750 S. Hoxie Ave. in Chicago, was pronounced dead at 12:50 a.m. Saturday at the Stein Institute.
A man riding in a car on the South Side was shot about 10:45 p.m. on the 5100 block of South Christiana Avenue. The man, believed to be in his 30s, was taken in good condition to Holy Cross Hospital, according to Banks. The man was shot in his left arm.
On the North Side, a man who didn't want to talk to police was shot in his upper thigh in the Uptown neighborhood. The man was shot in the 1000 block of West Sunnyside Avenue about 11:35 p.m., a Town Hall District officer said.
The office said the man shot was not cooperating with police, and there are several conflicting stories about the shooting.
About 11:45 p.m., two teen boys, a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old, were each shot in the leg at 6330 S. Damen Ave., Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
Both teens were taken to Holy Cross Hospital with non life-threatening injuries, Langford said.
About 1:30 a.m., a robbery victim was shot on the 7900 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue. The robber demanded money from the victim, police said. The victim ran away, but not before the robber got off one shot.
A man was shot multiple times early Saturday on the West Side and taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
The man was shot in the 700 block of North Drake Avenue just after 1:45 a.m., Banks, citing preliminary information, said, The man was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
A 21-year-old man was in good condition early Saturday after he was shot in the right leg on the 4400 block of West Adams Street. The man was standing there about 2:35 a.m. when someone in a passing car fired shots at him, police said.
Written by : LurchWritten by : Stone
Why not have background checks on everyone buying a gun? It is not a big ask for anyone seriously interested in reducing gun crime. I know, I could just look up Brady for the standard NRA reply, but hey surprise us!
Oh but it is a lot to ask. You see, we're fighting hard to prevent the slippery slope towards a police state that you've already fallen into. Universal background checks leads to universal registration. Universial registration leads to universal seizure when you finally make the push to ban guns outright. (..)
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Faith
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But that is what a democracy is about, no? If the majority of US Americans chose to ban guns completely, all guns should be collected. I understand that you will have a problem with "legally owned guns being collected first" - leaving you defenseless against illegally owned ones.
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Hence in case of a complete ban - EVERY gun (even those in hands of otherwise law abiding citizens) will turn their owners into felons...
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Tips, tricks, and hints for gun-rights advocates. ... Radical Gun Nuttery! A collection of tips, tricks, and hints for gun-rights advocates
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Walls may have ears but they don't have eyes
Written by : NYT
The detectives on trial said that they believed Mr. Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield had a gun, and based on that suspicion they fired away. No gun was found. Similarly, in 1999 police fired 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant who was just reaching for his wallet.
(...)
Progress has been steady. After the Bell shooting, Mr. Kelly ordered an independent study of department firearms training by the Rand Corporation. The results should be available soon. The commissioner hopes to prevent “reflexive shooting” after one officer fires an initial shot. Detective Michael Oliver alone managed to fire 31 of the 50 rounds toward Mr. Bell’s car — all in the few seconds following an initial shot from Gescard Isnora.
(...)
The margin of error once shooting begins has become distressingly small. The police have come to favor fast, easy-to-fire weapons like 9-millimeter semiautomatics. The rule that an officer is to pause and reassess after three shots can be forgotten in the heat of gunplay.
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Written by :Mascot
I haven't read the thread
But Lurch and Faith are probably wrong.
Written by :FireTom
Thank you for the support, Mascot. This propability (to me) is highly likely.
I reckon the situation in the US is so f**....
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Written by : OWD
Are you not going to ask him to quote his sources?
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Written by :Mascot
I haven't read the thread
But Lurch and Faith are probably wrong.
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Walls may have ears but they don't have eyes
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by :FT
but I would side you on "state" vs. "federal" legislation, ONLY IF there would be a SOLID border between each and every state of the US.
Written by :FT
I do know that "the system" is in desperate need of criminals and anit-social elements, which is why I don't expect any government to work on the true causes for criminality (equal range of choices/ good education) any time soon.
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the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Warning: Please Do Not Jump On The Seals
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed