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The Cost of Gun Deaths and Injuries in the US is Staggering.


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YOU may all in favour of regulation but it seems a sizable number of Americans gun owners and the NRA are not. To them any regulation seems to equate with a ban on firearms.

Personally I am unsure how one can be happy given the carnage and cost inflicted by the ready availability of firearms in the US - it is a public health epidemic.

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Because the NRA is little more than a mouthpiece for the gun manufacturers who see any regulations as a threat to their profits, most Americans could care less about Smith & Wesson's profits so they wave the second amendment around and make gun control sound like an attack on the constitution.

This is what the right to bear arms was referring to

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Single shot, max four rounds per minute (by a professional soldier under ideal conditions) accurate up to about 50 yards.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Funny how the NRA and pro-gun nuts always ignore the first part of the 2nd amendment and jump right to the end.

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I'll make this statement assuming that the majority of the NRA and pro-gun nuts understand a: How to read at all, or b: reading and comprehension. "Context" is a dirty word among teabagging gun fanatics. Of course...someone who understands context...and understands the time frame in which that document was written...recognizes that when that clause was put into the Constitution, this extremely young and fledgling country had just gotten out of a long battle for independence from the British. The writers of this document put this clause in to provide that there would be a militia or "citizens' army" strong enough to fend off any other invasions from the Redcoats. In their WILDEST dreams...none of the authors would EVER have envisioned semi or fully automatic weapons nor anything really beyond a musket...let's be honest. The Constitution is firm and strong, but in some places needs to be updated to dispel extremists like the National Redneck Association.

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I'll say this tongue-in-cheek...but in some ways I am quite thankful there are idiots out in this country speeding up nature's course as it were. This planet is severely overpopulated, and as there is no LEGAL way to thin out the numbers of the human race, I suggest we take all the warning labels off of everything in this world and let the problem sort itself out.

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1968 is incidentally about the time when the street gang and thug demographic started settling their disputes with guns, after a long hiatus from the Prohibition era.

For that problem to be allowed for so long is mind boggling.

Anyway, take out the gang related deaths, the self defense killings by civilians and police, the suicides, and its a different story.

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1968 is incidentally about the time when the street gang and thug demographic started settling their disputes with guns, after a long hiatus from the Prohibition era.

For that problem to be allowed for so long is mind boggling.

Anyway, take out the gang related deaths, the self defense killings by civilians and police, the suicides, and its a different story.

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Because the NRA is little more than a mouthpiece for the gun manufacturers who see any regulations as a threat to their profits, most Americans could care less about Smith & Wesson's profits so they wave the second amendment around and make gun control sound like an attack on the constitution.

This is what the right to bear arms was referring to

brownbess2.jpg

Single shot, max four rounds per minute (by a professional soldier under ideal conditions) accurate up to about 50 yards.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Funny how the NRA and pro-gun nuts always ignore the first part of the 2nd amendment and jump right to the end.

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The civilian firearms manufacturing industry just isn't that big, worth only a few billion a year, it's not a monster like Big Oil or Big Pharma, most of the NRA's budget must come from private donations. Nor is the NRA exactly unopposed, as well as most of the DNC and many Republicans, you have a dizzying array of NGOs and professional shills trotted out by the media to represent the opposing viewpoint.

Anyway, the 2nd Amendment didn't specify any technological limits on arms just as the first Amendment didn't specify any technological limits on means of communications.

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Because the NRA is little more than a mouthpiece for the gun manufacturers who see any regulations as a threat to their profits, most Americans could care less about Smith & Wesson's profits so they wave the second amendment around and make gun control sound like an attack on the constitution.

This is what the right to bear arms was referring to

brownbess2.jpg

Single shot, max four rounds per minute (by a professional soldier under ideal conditions) accurate up to about 50 yards.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Funny how the NRA and pro-gun nuts always ignore the first part of the 2nd amendment and jump right to the end.

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"Military grade" is inherent, in fact pretty much all the traditional hunting rifles used today were derived from what were at one time state of the art military rifle designs. The weapons used by the early U.S. Militia were in many cases better than what standing national armies of the day were using.

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