note most states start at "zero" jail time:
http://www.madd.org/laws/law-overvie...e_Overview.pdf
Compare with mandatory decades of jail for simple crack possession/use while black or brown. Thanks, Mr and Mrs St Ronnie!
I think up until the 1970s, drunk vehicular homicide it TX nearly always avoided any jail time, kind of a "Don't Mess With ... all us good ol' boys, politicians who drive drunk frequently".
and of course USA's ridiculously lenient, BigAlcohol-protected 0.8 mg/ml is a huge part of the the drunk driving homicide.
http://thehill.com/regulation/other/213447-court-overturns-dc-handgun-law
boutons
Court overturns DC handgun law
A federal judge has overturned a Washington, D.C., law preventing people from carrying handguns in public.
Judge Frederick Scullin concluded that current prohibitions are an uncons utional violation of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, in a win for gun rights advocates.
Based on previous court rulings striking down gun laws in D.C., Chicago and elsewhere, “there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is cons utional under any level of scrutiny,” Scullin wrote in his 19-page decision, which was unsealed on Saturday. “Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is uncons utional.”
The case against D.C., which is the only jurisdiction to ban people from carrying handguns in public, was brought by several people who tried to obtain permits for carrying a weapon but were denied.
Scullin’s ruling in Palmer v. District of Columbia will prevent police from enforcing the law, at least for the time being.
“Congratulations Americans, your capital is not a cons ution-free zone,” Second Amendment Foundation lawyer Alan Gura, who argued the case, wrote in a blog post.
The ruling comes six years after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision overruling D.C.’s total prohibition on owning a handgun, which the high court determined violated the Second Amendment. That decision determined that the Cons ution allowed all people, not just society in general, to own a gun.
historical sidebar: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...murder-mystery
Another murderer, who hijacked the NRA to be today's ed-up proxy and marketing arm of the guns-and-ammo industry.
http://www.meetthenra.org/nra-member/harlon-carter
i could be wrong, but aren't most gun-related crimes carried out by illegally obtained firearms?
You would be correct.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF
Sleep well knowing that more laws/money are being thrown at restricting magazine capacity and banning collapsible stocks than actually trying to recover the stolen guns.
Texas Firearms Instructor Accidentally Shoots His Own Hand During Lesson
A firearms instructor for the Hewitt, Texas Police Department was recently injured after he reportedly shot himself in the hand while teaching family members how to handle a gun.
The Waco Tribune-Herald newspaper reported on Friday that Sgt. Heath Vanek would miss at least two months of work because of the injury.
Vanek reportedly hurt himself on July 15 on his family's property as he was teaching family membershow to clear the chamber of a semi-automatic pistol if it jams.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-firearms-instructor-shooting?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm _campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
Conscientious ... but but but we're all human!
2 months off work? paid vacation!
‘My Parents Open Carry’ kid’s book portrays day in the life of ‘typical’ gun nut family
The co-founders of Michigan Open Carry have published a children’s book extolling the virtues of having fun while openly brandishing loaded firearms.
My Parents Open Carry tells the story of “13-year-old Brenna Strong along with her mom, Bea, and her dad, Richard [spending] a typical Saturday running errands and having fun together,” according to the book’s official site. However, “[w]hat’s not so typical is that Brenna’s parents lawfully open carry handguns for self-defense.”
The book’s authors, Brian Jeffs and Nathan Nephew, claim that they were inspired to write the book because they “looked for pro-gun children’s books and couldn’t find any. Our goal was to provide a wholesome family book that reflects the views of the majority of the American people, i.e., that self-defense is a basic natural right and that firearms provide the most efficient means for that defense.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/0...un-nut-family/
Gun Activist Compares Firearm Registration To Nazi Tattooing Of Jews
After a National Rifle Association lobbyist equated a proposal to expand background checks to the Nazi policies of Adolf Hitler, a prominent guns rights activist defended the offensive comparison and took it further, comparing gun registration to the Nazi practice of tattooing Jews with identification numbers.
The NRA is under fire after its Washington state lobbyist Brian Judy was heard telling opponents of the state's background check proposal that one of the proposal's primary supporters, who is Jewish, is "stupid" because "he's put half-a-million dollars toward this policy, the same policy that led to his family getting run out of Germany by the Nazis." Judy went on to mock the intelligence of Jewish individuals who support gun safety.
Now Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), is coming to Judy's defense.
Gottlieb reacted to Judy's comments on Seattle's CBS affiliate, saying "I don't see anything wrong with those remarks," before comparing the "registration" of Jews with number tattoos during the Holocaust to firearm registration:
ESSEX PORTER, KIRO 7: You're Jewish, are those remarks appropriate?
GOTTLIEB: I don't see anything wrong with those remarks. I mean it's a historical fact that Adolf Hitler registered people's firearms and then confiscated them.
PORTER: Gottlieb says many gun owners see it this way.
GOTTLIEB: Gun owners don't like the idea that Jewish people had to have, you know, numbers tattooed and registered on their arms. They don't like the fact that they have gun owners that get registered either.
To be clear, the background check initiative in Washington state does not include the registration of firearms, and civil rights organization Anti-Defamation League has repeatedly explained that there is no valid comparison between gun safety proposals and the Holocaust.
While lacking the national profile of the NRA's Wayne LaPierre -- other than when he proposed holding a "Guns Save Lives Day" on the one-year Newtown anniversary -- Gottlieb has been involved in the gun rights movement for decades.
CCRKBA played a role in the U.S. Senate fight over background checks in 2013 and SAF is prolific in its Second Amendment litigation.
As Alex Seitz-Wald, then a reporter for Salon, noted in an article debunking common claims from the NRA and conservative media about Hitler and guns, "the notion that Hitler confiscated everyone's guns is mostly bogus.
And the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn't make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08...on-to-n/200290
You gun fellators are among some really, really nasty, stinkin, lying, extremist assholes. Those assholes know exactly how to grovel before the gun/ammo mfrs, and how to pander their and lies to You People.
And all you gun fellators who think you're armed enough if/when the revenooers and G-men come fer ya, yew got another think comin.
Right wing discourse on guns is being completely shaped by the gun industry’s desire to sell more guns
I’ve noticed a dramatic uptick in gun nuts talking about how people need to learn to be “comfortable” around guns, which has, in turn, led to this whole “open carry” bull , which uses the line that it’s good to be “comfortable” around guns as its justification. (However, the emotional motive behind swinging a gun around in public is still the desire to dominate and terrify, but we’re all familiar with the glib ease with lying that is widespread on the American right.) There’s even a children’s book pushing the idea that it’s wholesome family fun to “open carry”. When I was young and growing up in gun-loving Texas around gun-loving people, the notion that you should just be tossing guns around and displaying them everywhere like some yahoo—the idea that guns are safe and we should feel “comfortable” around them—was strongly discouraged. Guns were locked away and we were told that they are very dangerous. But while that’s surely a smarter move if you want to minimize accidental shooting, the correct belief that guns are dangerous had to go because it’s clearly stifling gun profits. There’s still a little bit of talk about gun safety on the right, but it’s just a little ass-covering. The emotional pitch now is that guns are safe and they should be everywhere all the time until you forget how ing dangerous they really are.
This is all corporate marketing 101. No doubt the very real fear that guns are dangerous—backed by statistical evidence showing that having one in your house raises your chances of being murdered or assaulted by gun, being shot by accident, and committing suicide—is a huge barrier to selling more guns. So just like the ads in the 50s that tried to calm consumer fears of cancer by showing doctors smoking, there’s a push to signal that guns are not dangerous. You should just have them laying around all the time. You should strap them to your body! Guns should just be so familiar you completely forget that they can blow your head off if you handle them incorrectly. They’re so safe we should have kids firing them to pass on to the next grade! They’re just like very expensive action figures and you should collect them all!
The shift from concealed carry to open carry as a focal point is also indicative of how much the discourse on guns on the right is being shaped by the gun industry’s desire to sell more guns. Anyone who knows anything about markets knows that con uous consumption is a huge driver of profits, and that convincing people that owning your product will say something about them as a person is a really good way to sell widgets.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/0...e+Raw+Story%29
2nd Amendment!
marans!
home defense!
water the tree!
less gun fellators!
NRA and its suckers are are nothing but a marketing/sales dept for the guns/ammo industry.
Tulsa cop kicks out daughter over bad ‘life decisions,’ then guns down her boyfriend
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/0...her-boyfriend/
guns solve EVERY PROBLEM!
NRA: Gun Regulations Are "Equally As Uncons utional" As Jim Crow Laws
A new commentary from the National Rifle Association claims that laws relating to the buying, owning, and carrying of firearms are "equally as uncons utional" as Jim Crow laws that created legal racial discrimination in the United States.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07...s uti/200022
and you gun fellators, many of whom are white supremacists/racists yearn passionately for return to Jim Crow, fall for the NRA bull EVERY TIME.
NRA Raises Specter Of The Holocaust To Fearmonger About Confiscation Of Firearms
A new video commentary released by the NRA references the Holocaust and other instances of persecution to advance the baseless claim that "the government is collecting more and more gun registration data which could be used against gun owners in the form of full confiscation."
The July 18 commentary was published by NRA News and is part of the gun group's recent efforts to reach ayounger, more diverse audience. In the video NRA News commentator Chris Cheng sets up his claim about government-sanctioned gun confiscation by citing recent reports of the persecution of Jewish people in Eastern Ukraine, as well as "what happened to our Jewish friends during World War II":
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07...earmong/200145
gun fellators, white supremacists, consider der Juden their friends?
lol straw memes.
didn't work out too well for the BLACK guy in Toys'r'us
Lol posting
What are you going to do about, angry little nutbar?
Nothing.
More posting, how creativeWhat are you going to do about, angry little nutbar?
Nothing.
What are you going to do about it, angry little nutbar?
Nothing.
That's telling me
Missouri teachers can become armed safety officers under new law
More Missouri teachers could carry concealed weapons under a measure state lawmakers approved late Wednesday that also bans local laws against open carry of guns.
The Republican-controlled state General Assembly voted to override Democratic Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill that included the weapons provisions.
The law allows school districts to select teachers or other employees to carry a concealed weapon or pepper spray as "school protection officers" if they pass a training program and meet other requirements.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...e=domesticNews
Irate banker, tired of barking dog, shoots wrong corgi in front of horrified neighbors
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/i...e+Raw+Story%29
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