And you're not spouting propaganda?telcoman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:28 amPropaganda is what is being peddled on Fox and Russian trolls and being accepted by some poorly educated Americans including our incompetent president that has no leadership skills.srellim234 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 2:23 pmtelco - As usual you completely ignore direct questions when asked. How about answering them before you post your next bit of propaganda? You, sir, are incredibly rude, alienating and you influence no one in a positive manner with your behavior.
The N.R.A. Can Be Beat
It’s time to vote the gun lobby out of office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/opin ... editorials
"Hundreds have been killed in mass shootings at a high school in Littleton, Colo., a church in Charleston, S.C., an office party in San Bernardino, Calif., a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and elsewhere in the past 20 years. After 20 first graders and a half-dozen adults were slaughtered in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, it seemed that a line would be drawn in the sand. Enough was enough, people said. But nothing was done. People have been injured or killed in eight school shootings in the first seven weeks of 2018 alone.
Though many Americans, and some elected officials, have taken a stand to stanch the epidemic of gun violence, the National Rifle Association and its congressional servants have been an unyielding obstacle to sensible reform.
Opinion By MATTEEN MOKALLA 2:23
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But the gun lobby’s stranglehold on our elected officials does not need to continue, if candidates stand up to the lobby and voters demand that they commit themselves to the sorts of changes that a vast majority of Americans want.
With midterm elections coming up this fall, America has a chance to get that message across. Candidates must realize that reducing gun violence is a winning and moral issue. Aggressive turnout by voters who believe this can defeat the N.R.A. at the polls. Until then, the bloodshed will continue.
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"Most Americans support stronger gun laws — laws that would reduce deaths. But Republicans in Congress stand in the way. They fear alienating their primary voters and the National Rifle Association.
Below are the top 10 career recipients of N.R.A. funding – through donations or spending to benefit the candidate – among both current House and Senate members, along with their statements about the Las Vegas massacre. These representatives have a lot to say about it. All the while, they refuse to do anything to avoid the next massacre."
Our current High school students are going to solve the Gun problem since we have a man/child in the White House that has no leadership skills
Telcoman
If the gun-control activists want to keep blaming the Republicans and he NRA in response to every shooting in America, they should at least be honest about what exactly they are saying. Full on gun confiscation. That. Is. Not. Going. To. Happen. The only way to eliminate mass shootings is to remove all firearms. Banning certain weapons and/or enacting more laws (which someone hellbent on creating harm would ignore) simply won't work. Chicago alone is proof positive of that fact. The majority of Chicago homicides are the result of gun violence. According to the Chicago Tribune in the previous 365 days there have been 611 shooting homicide victims in Chicago. As of Feb. 11 there have been a total of 55 homicides this year. But committing murder, especially with a firearm is illegal, so how is this even possible? Maybe they need more laws?
Gun confiscation is not happening in the United States any time soon. But let’s suppose it did. How would it work? Australia’s program netted, at the low end, 650,000 guns, and at the high end, a million. That was approximately a fifth to a third of Australian firearms. There are about as many guns in America as there are people: 310 million of both in 2009. A fifth to a third would be between 60 and 105 million guns. To achieve in America what was done in Australia, in other words, the government would have to confiscate as many as 105 million firearms. And an American mandatory gun-confiscation program — in addition to being unconstitutional — would be extraordinarily coercive, and perhaps even violent.
There is no other way around it: The mandatory confiscation of the American citizenry’s guns would involve tens of thousands of heavily armed federal agents going door-to-door to demand of millions of Americans that they surrender their guns.