Comments on: “Bump Stock’ Ban Proposed In Florida After Vegas Shootings

By: Edward Kessler

Edward Kessler — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:38:59 +0000

Duke, Guess what – America is home to Americans. Multicultural or not, the right to self defense is not GIVEN by the Bill of Rights, rather it is specifically PROTECTED from infringement. If you don’t like guns, DON’T OWN ONE. If you don’t like living with guns, may I suggest a move to someplace with near total gun control, such as Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador or Honduras.

By: Duke of Wawbeek

Duke of Wawbeek — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:05:48 +0000

There is no place for guns in a multicultural society.

I keep hearing references to Switzerland requiring a gun in every home, well guess what, Switzerland is not a multicultural society, it is the home of the Swiss people.

By: Edward Kessler

Edward Kessler — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:56:00 +0000

Grand Locust – Thank you for sharing YOUR OPINION of the reason for the drop in Gun Violence while Gun Ownership and Lawful Concealed Carry has skyrocketed, but that’s all it is, an OPINION. There is no data to back up your claim that people over 50 years of age magically stop committing crimes. Meanwhile, the simple fact that that the Crime rate HAS dropped, while lawful concealed carry and private gun ownership has skyrocketed completely disproves your theory that more guns equals more crime. There IS NO data to prove that higher rates of gun ownership increases gun violence or violent crime…PERIOD.

As for your claim that there is nothing in the Constitution that allows citizens to transport firearms, have you any idea what the word “BEAR”, as in the right to keep and BEAR arms means? It means transport or carry. Couldn’t be any clearer.

By: Edward Kessler

Edward Kessler — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:04:15 +0000

Grand Locust – Ummm, nice theory about why violent crime has been falling, but that’s all it is, a theory. You are basically saying that crime stops magically once people reach the age of 50???? You’re entitled to your opinion, but that’s all it is….your opinion. My reasoning, even if you disagree with it, clearly dismantles the mantra that more guns equals more crime. Firearm ownership and lawful concealed carry have skyrocketed in the last 20+ years, and violent crime rates have plummeted. Making the case that more guns equals more crime just doesn’t hold water – Sorry.

The rest of your post is even more bizarre. You believe the Constitution allows us to own firearms but not to transport them? What do you think “to Keep and BEAR” means??? I’ll help you – BEAR means to carry or TRANSPORT.

By: Grand Locust

Grand Locust — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:41:04 +0000

ED
Sorry, but the crime rate was reduced by simple demographics. The largest bubble of population has been the baby boomers who when the were less than 15 had low crime rates, but crime rates skyrocketed when they entered young adulthood and continued into their early fifties when a very defined drop off which all criminologist agree an aged population sees a drop in crime. The idea of everyone having a gun reducing crime is idiotic. However, until they amend the second amendment every citizen has the right to bear arms, and if I have a bump stock in my home for my protection, I believe the supreme court has made it clear that should be legal. Our problem with weapons is transport. There is nothing in the constitution which allows a citizen to transport weapons in public unless part of a well formed milita. It is simple. Let me keep whatever firearms I desire in my home, but do not let me walk in public or transport the same by car unless they are not on the banned weaponry list. So my bump stock in my home is legal. A bump stock in a vehicle is not. This is not liberal or conservative it is strict construction of our founding father’s constitution, and it does not matter that the second amendment was really about allowing armed militias to track down run away property.

By: Sedition

Sedition — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:41:05 +0000

Sigh.
@CW, your definition of NEED is dubious at best, but I have something that trumps (no pun intended) your NEED…my RIGHTS.
@Thor Odinson, Politicians are not afraid of our firearms? Then why do they walk around with such well armed security that often carry weapons that we civilians are not normally “allowed” to have?
Yes, you need a license, and blah, blah, blah for automobiles because they are a privilege not a right.
The truth of the matter is, you anti-2ndA crown don’t give one whit about the numbers of preventable deaths each year. Pretty consistently, year after, the list is the same. By June of 2016 in the USA, over half a million lives were lost due to abortion., Tobacco deaths at almost 170,000, obesity sat at almost 150,000 deaths, medical errors at just over 115,000, on and on and on. At the bottom of the list, coming in with 5,276 deaths by all guns…statistically a blip on the radar. Blunt objects like hammers, fists and feet took more lives than firearms! You don’t really care about the number of people killed, you only care about the METHOD in which lives were lost. The leftist party agenda and rampant hoplophobia are clear and obvious. Why are you not as, if not more, outraged by the methods that cost more American lives than firearms? Is that in any way logical, or are you all blood-dancing in an emotional response?

By: myrightsalso

myrightsalso — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:46:47 +0000

The government, laws or restrictions will ever be able to stop evil. Anyone that took the time, effort and knowledge to plan that attack was not suffering from mental illness. JUST plain EVIL. No amount of laws or government will ever be able to protect people for someone that is hell bent on destroying them. Any thing can be used as a weapon. Stop blaming the guns, rounds, the hotel security and giving the Mental Ill a bad name. This man was just evil.

By: Edward Kessler

Edward Kessler — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:07:32 +0000

Robert – The STANDARD Magazine that is issued with modern semi-automatic handguns is typically 13-17 rounds/ Are you aware how long it takes to change a magazine? The total time to fire three 10-round magazines versus two 15-round magazines is so close, there is virtually no difference. If criminals can be armed with STANDARD 15-round magazines to come rob me, then I should be allowed to have the same capability. Also, there are many documented cases where multiple attackers were thwarted because the intended victim was able to shoot several times at each thug.

By: Edward Kessler

Edward Kessler — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:03:33 +0000

Tom – You state that “This problem continues to get far worse with each passing year”. Typical uninformed Liberal nonsense. The Violent Crime Rate in the United States has been DECREASING for the last 25 years, and is now at historic low levels. Please feel free to google it yourself. As for Countries with “more sensible Gun laws” having lower violent crime rates, please check your “facts”. Four of the Countries with the most stringent Gun Control (Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras) have all the “sensible” gun control regulations you folks carry on about, background checks, waiting periods, limits on ammo purchases, one-gun-a-month limits, total handgun bans, etc. and have MUCH HIGHER Violent Crime and Gun Violence rates than the US. Just because you think something should be true doesn’t mean it is.

By: Wilykyote

Wilykyote — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:23:21 +0000

How / why were hand grenades done away with ? If we all had maybe a hundred
of them plus a launcher would we be really safe then ? Unfortunately life kinda just
teeters on the edge……driving is more than dangerous…..heart attacks and strokes
can instantly change everything…….cancer is a beast and the list goes on and on.
We ( American’s) have the right to arm ourselves for protection…..I’m sure thankful our predecessors provided that for us. I am also pretty sure they
(Our predecessors) had no idea of how we’d evolve nor how our
population would expand and change. Common sense should prevail in our
existence ( every facet of life ) but unfortunately it doesn’t. Somehow stupidity
has taken a foothold and has become pervasive!