States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths

[clambake]

there would be much fewer deaths if violent criminals meet my mossberg.

[TheSanityAnnex]

25 States Will Let You Carry a Concealed Gun Without Making Sure You Know How to Shoot One

A state-by-state review of training standards shows that in nearly half the country, there is no universal requirement that applicants for concealed carry permits undergo so-called live-fire training.

Just 24 states and the District of Columbia include mandatory range time as part of their permitting process, while the remaining 25 have no such requirement in place.

(Vermont does not issue concealed carry permits at all.)States that do not mandate live-fire training include places such as Pennsylvania, where applicants must only meet a set of criteria — a clean criminal record and mental health history, for instance — to be handed a permit. On the other end of the spectrum, in order to receive a permit in Kentucky, applicants must demonstrate their shooting ability by placing 11 of 20 rounds on a full-size silhouette target.

At least 8 million Americans had an active permit to carry a concealed weapon in 2012, according to a report by the United States Government Accountability Office. A more recent estimate by pro-gun researcher John Lott places that figure closer to 13 million.

“I have people who come to my class who basically couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn,” Rich Strohmeier, a firearms instructor in Fisherville, Kentucky, tells The Trace. “I think Kentucky is doing the right thing and everyone else is doing the wrong thing.”
“It takes 2,500 repe ions to pick up a pistol correctly,” he adds.

To compile a national breakdown of live-fire requirements, The Trace examined state statutes covering concealed carry licensing. When the language of a state’s law did not specify a training requirement one way or the other — some call for a basic handgun safety course but do not spell out whether that encompasses a live-fire component — we contacted the state’s centralized issuing authority.

http://www.thetrace.org/2016/02/live...carry-permits/

The Gun Fellatin Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

As a whole, CCW holders are safer and more accurate than police officers.

[TheSanityAnnex]

if you think about, there would be a lot fewer gun deaths if there were a lot fewer guns.

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12-Year-Old Accidentally Shot In Stomach During Idaho Militia Meeting


While cleaning a firearm, one of the members accidentally discharged the weapon

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

ing hilarious, these less gun fellators. What if the bullet would have destroyed her ovaries and severed her spine?

"We don't ing care. 2nd Amendment trumps human life!"

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Texas dad pretends to shoot his 9-year-old daughter — and then accidentally shoots her in the chest

left the girl in critical condition,

The girl underwent multiple surgeries to treat her wounds,

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/texa...e+Raw+Story%29

Gun fellators are ing sickos.

Little girl scarred for life, and such great memories of fun with daddy.

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Iowa Lawmakers Advance Bill That Would Allow Kids To Use Handguns

The Iowa House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that eliminates the age requirement for children to use "a pistol, revolver or the ammunition" with parental supervision.

The House approved the measure 62-36, according to The Huffington Post. It's sponsored by state Rep. Jack Highfill (R) and now moves to the state Senate.

Current law doesn't allow anyone younger than 14 years old to handle firearms.

State Rep. Kirsten Running-Marquardt (D) fought against the measure.

"What this bill does, the bill before us, allows for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds to operate handguns," she told local television station KCCI. "We do not need a militia of toddlers. We do not have handguns that I am aware of that fit the hands of a 1- or 2-year-old."

Highfill told the Washington Post that the criticism was unfounded because the bill includes language that requires parental supervision with "visual and verbal contact at all times with the supervised person."

“Allowing people to learn at a young age the respect that a gun commands is one of the most important things you can do,” he told the newspaper.

He added that otherwise, Iowans would turn 18 years of age "with no experience" in proper gun safety.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29


gun fellatin NRA/gun-industry s, shills are ing ignorant sickos.

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Two-year-old fighting for his life after shooting himself with his mother’s gun

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/two-year-old-fighting-for-his-life-after-shooting-himself-with-his-mothers-gun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

but Mom felt secure in her armed self-defense bull

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Gun-loving Florida mom hit with misdemeanor charge after her 4-year-old son shot her in the back

Jamie Gilt was shot through the abdomen March 8 while driving a pickup near her Florida home after the boy found a loaded .45-caliber handgun and fired the weapon.

The 29-year-old Gilt, of Jacksonville, frequently posts about her love of guns and her views on Second Amendment rights on a Facebook page called “Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense,” which was deluged with critical commentary after the shooting.

The Putnam County sheriff announced Tuesday that Gilt would be charged with with failure to properly secure her gun, a second-degree misdemeanor.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/gun-...r-in-the-back/

problem: only a 2nd degree misdemeanor? what a joke, but guns are such fun.

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The HI- ING-LARIOUS GUNFAIL REPORT

TFW you shoot a theatergoer with the gun you brought to stop a theater shooting: GunFAIL CLXXVII

The week of January 17-23, where we last left off, had a few GunFAIL incidents that gained national attention, including the accidental shooting in a Renton, Washington, movie theater, ironically enough among the crowd assembled to watch the Benghazi-porn film 13 Hours.

Amazingly, that incident ended without a fatality.

I say it’s amazing not only because the victim in the accidental shooting was lucky enough not to be killed, but also because the shooter—who had brought his gun with him to the movies for fear of the threat of a theater shooter —

immediately fled the scene during the initial confusion, so that he would not be mistaken for a theater shooter!

Which of course, he was!

He insisted on ducking the scene so that he wasn’t shot down by another “good guy” who’d brought his gun in order to exact instant justice on any potential theater shooters! Because, of course, his theater shooting was … different.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/0...28Daily+Kos%29

There's LOTS MORE hilarity in the full report, as always.

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Your Favorite Fairy Tale Characters Now Have Guns Thanks To The NRA

The National Rifle Association has taken some heat this week after attempting what it saw as a family-friendly approach to to gun rights: inserting guns into classic fairy tale stories.

As part of its new family-oriented website, NRA Family, the organization reimagined popular fairy tales by arming the main characters with guns. The stories, which the NRA posted on its site and in the site's newsletter, feature illustrations and stories by Amelia Hamilton, a conservative blogger and author.

The first, published on March 17, is called Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns),



a new spin on the classic Brothers Grimm story. Instead of being nearly eaten by the witch, the brother and sister duo rescue another boy with guns loaded. They then to return to their village and tell their parents, who storm back guns-a-blazing to capture the witch.


Another story published Friday is a take on Little Red Riding Hood called—you guessed it—Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun).



It follows a similar narrative, with both granny and Little Red packing heat and using their guns to scare the wolf so he can be tied up and carried away.

"As they slowly began to feel calm, Red got her grandmother chicken soup and a cup of tea," the NRA version of the tale reads. "They sat in companionable silence, happy in the security that comes with knowing they could defend themselves."

Not everyone is thrilled with these reimagined tales. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, called the series a "depraved marketing campaign" and called the stories "pathetic." "Make no mistake, this is a disgusting, morally depraved marketing campaign," he said in a statement. "The NRA continues to stoop to new lows in the hopes of shoving guns into America's youngest hands."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

NRA, with the help of gun-fellating parents, indoctrinating kids int the the gun fellatin culture, in the same way BigTobacco, across the planet, tries to addict youth to cigarettes.

Just a couple of BigCorp in up the world for profit, while non-shooters, non-smokers pay for their external costs.

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ID, another red state allows carry w/o any permit, b/g check, nothing

[TheSanityAnnex]

ID, another red state allows carry w/o any permit, b/g check, nothing

Shock us all with their gun murder rate

[Splits]

Man charged in accidental shooting at gun show

KTVB , 6:28 AM. MST February 09, 2016

GARDEN CITY -- A man who injured two people when he accidentally discharged a rifle while setting up for a gun show has been charged with a misdemeanor.

The charge - injuring another through careless handling and discharge of firearms - was filed against 74-year-old Robert C. Turner of Washington on Wednesday.

Turner was working as a gun show vendor at Expo Idaho when the shooting happened the morning of Oct. 31. According to the Ada County Sheriff's Office, Turner told deputies he was attaching a zip tie to the trigger assembly of a bolt-action rifle when the gun went off.

The bullet hit a 51-year-old man and a 64-year-old man in the leg. The 64-year-old went to the hospital, but was not seriously injured, the sheriff's office said.

If convicted of the misdemeanor, Turner could face up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.

The accidental shooting came just two years after two people were hurt when a gun discharged at a 2013 gun show at Expo Idaho. One man injured in the 2013 shooting lost his vision in one eye.

Ada County commissioners told KTVB in January that future gun shows at the venue are on hold while the firearms safety and security policies are reviewed.

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Obama Sadly Admits Time Running Out to Confiscate Nation's Guns




https://www.facebook.com/andyborowit...type=3&theater

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Governor signs controversial ‘Church Protection Act’

Gov. Phil Bryant has signed into law the Mississippi Church Protection Act to allow churches to legally have armed security if they choose. Bryant signed House Bill 786 on Friday.

Bryant said in a Twitter post he signed the bill because “churches deserve protection from those who would harm worshippers.”

If someone were to use a gun to defend their house or worship, he or she would also be immune from criminal penalties.

Under the plan, ministries would “train members to carry guns and act as security guards during religious services,” knowing that if they opened fire in defense of the church, they couldn’t be prosecuted.

During the legislative debate, one Republican supporter told his state Senate colleagues, “This will allow a church to have a sergeant-at-arms to protect the church body, just like we have [in the legislature].”

Of course, ordinarily a sergeant-at-arms has a background in law enforcement.


And speaking of law enforcement, the Clarion-Ledger piece added that police chiefs in Mississippi were not impressed with the proposal.

The Mississippi Police Chiefs Association has express concerns about the bill, saying it will do away with a license to carry a concealed handgun in public and would put law enforcement and all Mississippians in harm’s way. […]

The Police Chiefs Association says the bill would lower the bar for who can carry a concealed, loaded gun in public to include violent criminals, some severely mentally ill people, and chronic alcoholics.

The Republican-led legislature and governor approved the proposal anyway.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

Repug primitive, retrograde slave states simply can't stop proving they they suck.

[russellgoat]

People using their rights in stupid ways doesn't make it any less of a right.

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People using their rights in stupid ways doesn't make it any less of a right.

you gun fallators, duped by gun-industry/NRA, have CREATED "rights" outside of the law.

[TheSanityAnnex]

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in FOUR months!

Freedom!

Liberty!

Water the Tree with 2nd Amendment blood!

Toddlers have shot at least 23 people this year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ple-this-year/


The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/13/the-macabre-truth-of-gun-control-in-the-us-is-that-toddlers-kill-more-people-than-terrorists-do


Any of you gun fellators have the stats on how many HOME INVADERS have been shot in 4 months?

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Nevada Police Union Calls Fiore ‘Embarrassment’ For Gun Comments



Nevada’s largest police union has come out against Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) for her recent suggestion that citizens can take aim at law enforcement officers so long as police point their weapons first.

"Ms. Fiore, we no longer see you as a passionate advocate for your Second Amendment rights, which we support,” Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers Executive Director Rick McCann wrote in a letter to her office. “Rather, these comments were utterly irresponsible, an embarrassment to your District and our State, and they continue to demonstrate why you are unqualified to hold the position of United States Congresswoman."

Fiore, a controversial advocate for firearm use who has called the Bureau of Land Management a “bureaucrat agency of terrorism,” is currently running for an open U.S. House seat in her state. Her role in brokering the end of the standoff by armed extremists at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year helped raise her national profile.

In an interview in late April, Fiore told KLAS-8 that she “would never ever point my firearm at anyone, including an officer of the law, unless they pointed their firearm at me.”

“Now once you point your firearm at me,” she continued, “I’m sorry, then it becomes self-defense.

Whether you’re a stranger, a bad guy, or an officer, and you point your gun at me and you’re gonna shoot me and I have to decide whether it’s my life or your life, I choose my life.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nevada-police-union-michele-fiore-embarrassment-gun-comments?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm _campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Is that Fiore's rule for white women, or does she recommend that rule for blacks and browns?

[lefty20]

Right to bear arms is very important, it's basically a form of population control as it allows stupid Americans a chance to do what is necessary. Need China and India to get on board with this now.

[Splits]

[TheSanityAnnex]

What a bunch of dip s. Always assume a gun is loaded and only point it at what you intend to shoot.

[spurraider21]

damn

[CosmicCowboy]

I was standing in front of my office last week at 6:15am when a guy on the I-35 overhead right over my head ran up under an 18 wheeler and killed himself. It rained little plastic car pieces all over my parking lot. Bad things happen to dumb or careless people all the time.