Ninth Stage

If dad had put his kid on a motorcycle or pair of skis and the kid died it wouldn’t be such a big deal to gun bigots.  This guy isn’t sad that a child died.  He’s joyful for the opportunity to rant about his prejudices.

Among the most accurate descriptions of a weapon I’ve read in the media in a long time.
Pendleton said several shots were fired from a semi-automatic AK-47-type . . .
And then they blow it completely.
. . . assault rifle inside the house and several more were fired on the outside.
Folks, folks, folks.  Semi-automatic rifles are [...]

Patrick Lockyer, a British born retiree living in Jacksonville, asserts, two times,
Fort Myers is more dangerous than London you idiots. Brits call violent crime ‘purse snatching’. Totally different planet and species reading your stuff. Jax had 150 shootings just a last year.

Ignoring the name calling, we have the assertion that Fort Meyers, Florida, is more [...]

These ads are unfair and deceptive because they suggest to the consumer that the purchase of a fire extinguisher is an effective means of providing for self and family fire-protection without warning the consumer that the introduction of a fire extinguisher into the home actually places the home’s occupants at an increased risk of death [...]

Not Really.
At The Stuffiness Host, Jayne Lyn Stahl backs away from her recent vilifying of NRA members and then charges back in against the vast right-wing gun lobby*, with vigor.
Generalizing from her “feelings”, she puts the language of the left where our constitutionally protected civil right to arms should be.
Increasingly, in a world in which [...]

Here’s a little secret the NRA doesn’t want you to know: Most gun owners are almost never inconvenienced by gun laws. That’s because most people who buy guns do not do it on a whim. A waiting period or one gun a month is only a problem for people who want a gun immediately.
Wrong!  It [...]

I’ll be watching you.
Australian radio show has not a clue.
Yet in some states like Pennsylvania, getting a gun is almost as easy as ordering a pizza.
Eighty-five, eight-six per cent of homicides are by handgun or handguns are out of control here in the city of Philadelphia.
And this year alone, Philadelphia has issued more than 4,000 [...]

Textra gets just about everything wrong.
Assault rifles are no longer illegal in the United States.
Assault rifles were never illegal. True, select fire, fully-automatic-operation capable assault rifles are heavily regulated, require a $200 transfer tax, an extensive background check and permission of your chief local law enforcement officer, state law permitting. What you mean [...]

I tried posting about this story this morning but couldn’t because my connection was flaky.  There’s really no point in saying anything about it now since the author is getting shellacked in comments.

Call to ban legally owned guns from private homes in UK to combat criminal use of illegally owned guns. It’s kinda like banning legal immigration to combat illegal immigration, they sorta sound the same but they’re actually opposites.

Poor Aleksandra doesn’t like guns.
My boyfriend told me something that nearly brought me to tears.
“I bought a gun,” he said.
She talks about “need” for a while and then the only thing she can think to do about guns is a Brady talking point.
I’m in full support of stricter background checks at gun stores and gun [...]

9mm “Assault Rifle” more dangerous than hand grenades.
Police found a 9 mm assault rifle, air guns, hand grenades, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and violence-filled notebooks at the boy’s home Wednesday, prosecutors said. They found no ammunition for the most dangerous weapon, the assault rifle.
I’m betting the 9mm “Assault [...]