Out of Pod Experience

There are a whole lot of violent deaths to prevent The powers that be want to keep the population fearful. So, whenever a tragic mass killing occurs it is plastered on every media outlet for days. All the while, all the good news and all the lives saved, with or without the assistance of firearms, by courageous people, are buried in the trenches

CDC All causes of mortality for the US 2010

Look violent death made it into the top 15

Even adolescent death rates are fractionally caused by violent crime. 1% out of 100,000 deaths

If my point is missed. If those that want to save peoples lives really want to start saving lots of peoples lives they should start mandating exercise and healthy eating as guns really do not kill that many people, but people are definitely hell bent on killing themselves very very slowly, at the expense of the tax payers too boot.

P.S. I do not advocate my last statement even though I am a Health and Wellness Professional.

Just so I do not need to link it later. 'We' can not stop all the violence

Its odd how hard people will fight to keep their second amendment yet do nothing to protect their first amendment

The issue here is that amendment defense groups have been largely specialized into single-issue bludgeons. Pan-libertarian groups are marginalized because most (all?) other political groups have a genuine disdain for one or more parts of the bill of rights (liberals today generally hate state's rights, conservatives today generally hate limiting the military power of the federal government).

So while the second amendment crew is still happily pursuing their own agenda, the first amendment crowd (the ACLU was historically at the forefront of this) has gone far afield of their charge. They tend to very selectively defend free speech and have yet to win many challenges against the security state in regards to free speech (see the Bradley Manning case which will be decided tomorrow).

Add to it the fact that the so-called "fourth estate," (journalists) are now more than ever enobled by the state and in the pocket of the political power structure. At the latest "Aspen Convention," of the defense department's most notorrious warmongers and torture-advocates not a word was spoken about the unjust wars still being fought by the US military. Many a joke was had at the expense of "collateral damage," and torture victims.

So the state does as it will and the people who have little or no voice in what that state does in their name simply live on with what freedom they still have. Surely a resident of the Isle of CCTV knows what I mean.

no explanation. no click.

People kill people, guns make it easier.

Switzerland is better armed than the US, conclusion is that US culture that is ****** up, not the concept of being armed.

You dont need guns for free speech. Any nation that does is in very big trouble.

Hows that NSA thing working out for you?

Nope, looks like when the dice land and there's a reason to do as Benjamin Franklin recommended, a periodic revolution whenever the governing powers that be overstep there must be a correction, that nothing actually happens. The Executive has turned to a closed Judicial to twist the meaning of the Patriot Act into whatever it deemed necessary for the NSA. The NSA then openly lied to the Legislature and was not punished, only the whistle-blower has been hunted across the world and demonetised in advance of a theoretical fair trial. The President even ran on a basis of openness on whistleblowers, which has been removed from his old website.

At which point did anyone consider a rebellion? Why should I take your position seriously?

If you are the hero and live too long, you end up becoming the villain.

When you outlaw guns only outlaws have guns.

Was just about to post the same thing, source http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/gun-crime.