President Barack Obama is angry after the shooting at an Oregon community college campus that left nine dead and several more injured.
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But gun rights advocates believe the president is trying for a political grab. We’ve just had another shooting.
People look at handguns at the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, Va., on October. 3. “Honestly, we don’t have the best data to answer that in a definitive, scientific way”, says Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
A painting of President George Washington leading a force of federalized state militias against the Whiskey rebels in western Pennsylvania in 1794. Indeed, its defined goal was to achieve “security” against disruptions to the country’s republican form of government. Indeed, the most lethal weapon that early Americans owned was a slow-loading, single-fired musket or rifle. This vision of the Framers of the Constitution and members of the First Congress as a few anarchists wanting an armed population to overthrow the government if the people weren’t happy with something is completely opposite of what was intended. They treat weapons as something to marvel at rather than as something to fear. How sadly comfortable they are with political impasse over this societal shame. After that, no amount of lobbying or politicking really mattered, as the public had made up its mind. But if smelling salts could revive them and if they would hang around, they could meet good citizens from all walks of life.
The White House is heavily weighing the use of an executive order to expand background checks for gun buyers, two administration sources confirmed to CBS News. The article, titled “Revoke the Second Amendment” is an all out attack against all things gun related.
They are quick to say that mental illness plays a key role in these mass shootings. Jefferson argued that violence, like Shays’s Rebellion, was to be welcomed. “I’ve got to have a Congress and I’ve got to have state legislatures and governors who are willing to work with me on this”, he said. Those who said “Christian” were shot in the head. Now we give out .8 billion in “Democracy, Human Rights and Governance” aid to countries around the world. He was not directly involved in either. What are these rights, exactly? What came next was a sadly familiar story: The president delivered a national speech, liberal politicians vowed to pass comprehensive gun control, conservative leaders-who are still generally opposed to Medicaid expansion-insisted that mental health care would have prevented the shooting. In fact, America has the weakest gun laws and the most guns of any comparable nation and we have the most gun deaths. Or maybe mental health is a scapegoat public figures like to use as the reason why thousands of Americans die every year from gun violence. With this track record in its corner, the public health approach might just have what it takes to tackle the National Rifle Association and other gun lobbyists. Actually it’s people with guns who kill people. Instead it would guarantee the protection of those rights – while saving many lives.
To reduce annual homicides, Kleiman supports increasing the tax on alcohol, as intoxication has proven to be a much greater risk factor for gun violence than mental illness.
Iowa Gun Owners will continue to work to repeal these so-called “gun-free zones”.
Educated and informed gun owners have seen fit to remove nearly 30 incumbent legislators from the Iowa House and Senate over the past three election cycles, sending a loud message to would-be anti-gun legislators.
Jason Hoyt, author of the book Consent of The Governed, has spent years studying the true meaning our what Forefathers were attempting to protect with the Second Amendment. The entire amendment is only 26 words.
Nor do they explain what the Framers meant by “bear arms”. All that stands in its way is the Second Amendment. “If we were able to magically cure schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, that would be wonderful, but overall violence would go down by only about 4 percent”.
While an efficiently run background check might not violate constitutional and moral rights, simply banning guns or heavily restricting their usage surely does. The massacre happened when native Americans stormed a school in Pennsylvania, killing the schoolmaster and ten children. History has proven his argument to be a most risky one, as well. The trilogy includes America’s Stolen Narrative.
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Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke numerous Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.
