http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/27/1415903/-Gun-Violence-Has-The-Media-Woken-Up-For-Good-This-Time?detail=email
Is this what it takes? The NYT Editorial:
Killings of Journalists Bring Gun Violence to Dark New Level
It is an increasingly horrific fact of life and death in the United States that easily available guns offer troubled Americans the power to act out their grievances in public. This trend, dramatized in recent years by macabre shootings in schools, churches, movie theaters and workplaces, was taken to a dark new level on Wednesday in southwestern Virginia by a disturbed former reporter who chose not only to murder two journalists as they reported live for a television station that had fired him, but also to record and broadcast the crime on social media.
Many politicians will focus on the gunman’s troubled personality and try to cast this shooting as a summons for better mental health care, certainly not gun control. Yet that ignores a grim reality: the estimated 300 million guns in America owned by a third of the population, far more per capita than any other modern nation. Guns are ubiquitous and easy to acquire, as statehouse politicians, particularly Republicans, genuflect to the gun lobby to weaken, not tighten, gun safety.
They should be pointing out day after day the reality of gun violence across the US.
They should be pointing day after day how the NRA perpetuates this violence.
They should be pointing out day after day which politicians bow down before the NRA.
They should be reporting day after day the obstructionism at Federal and State levels that prevents any reasonable gun control legislation.
They should be pointing these out day after day, rather than just when something horrible happens.
Guns are used to justify an ever more militarized police.
Guns are used to justify police firing before any attempt at real policing.
Gun violence is used by some to justify ever more guns.
Arm the teachers, can there ever have been a more absurd statement in the history of humanity?
Guns are designed to kill, they are not a fashion accessory, that is their sole purpose.
One thing for certain is that the more guns that are out there, the more deaths will occur.
The easier it is to get a gun, the more deaths will occur.
Gun licenses
Gun registration and tracking
Waiting periods
Proper background checks for all gun sales.
Education that the be all and end all to personal security, is not a gun.
A gun is not cool
A gun doesn't make you special
A gun is designed to kill.
and there it is all you wanted to know about gun control but were afraid to ask or your 2nd amendment misunderstood rights meant more. the republican right wing plays with words convinces those they can fool that the gov't is their enemy and infringes on "THEIR RIGHTS" giving them the path to promote 2nd amendment in their own special way that excludes any attempt to change the status quo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
my favorites the carry laws in Churches, bars now that a crazy has murdered in church some of it's members their argument gets stronger among the weaker minded, bars well get drunk and anythings up for grabs film at 11pm.
