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]]>More than 20 percent of gun owners in the U.S. admit to usingdrugs while also suffering from a mental health disorder, according to a study. According to a survey of 1,098 gun owners by rehab center The Florida House Experience, one in three people self-identify as having a mental health disorder, with anxiety, mood disorders and post-traumatic stress among some of the most common conditions.
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]]>Tragically, predictably, infuriatingly, we’re again mourning a shooting – this time at YouTube’s headquarters – even as the drive for gun safety legislation has stalled in Washington. Polls show that nine out of 10 Americans favor basic steps like universal background checks before gun purchases, but the exceptions are the president and a majority in Congress.
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]]>…just sayin.
Loesch: NRA not calling for anything to be banned – CNN Video
While discussing bump stocks, NRA Spokesperson Dana Loesch tells CNN’s Alysin Camerota that the NRA is not calling for anything to be banned.
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]]>America, can we talk? Let’s just cut the shit for once and actually talk about what’s going on without blustering and pretending we’re actually doing a good job at adulting as a country right now. We’re not. We’re really screwing this whole society thing up, and we have to do better.
My key takeaways…
Every weapon that a US Army soldier uses has the express purpose of killing human beings. That is what they are made for. The choice rifle for years has been some variant of what civilians are sold as an AR-15. Whether it was an M-4 or an M-16 matters little. The function is the same, and so is the purpose. These are not deer rifles. They are not target rifles. They are people killing rifles. Let’s stop pretending they’re not.
With this in mind, is anybody surprised that nearly every mass shooter in recent US history has used an AR-15 to commit their crime?…
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If he could custom design a weapon to suit his sinister purposes, he couldn’t do a better job than Armalite did with this one already.
This rifle is so deadly and so easy to use that no civilian should be able to get their hands on one. We simply don’t need these things in society at large….
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I understand that people want to be able to own guns. That’s ok. We just need to really think about how we’re managing this. Yes, we have to manage it, just as we manage car ownership. People have to get a license to operate a car, and if you operate a car without a license, you’re going to get in trouble for that. We manage all things in society that can pose a danger to other people by their misuse….
….Gun ownership is the one thing our country collectively refuses to manage, and the result is a lot of dead people. (the emphasis is mine)
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]]>The post No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong. – The Washington Post appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>Just five of Everytown’s 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury. Three others appeared to be intentional shootings but did not hurt anyone. Two more involved guns — one carried by a school police officer and the other by a licensed peace officer who ran a college club — that were unintentionally fired and, again, led to no injuries. At least seven of Everytown’s 18 shootings took place outside normal school hours.
A better statistical model to share:
After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings
Since 26 people were killed in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, a nonprofit that tracks school shootings has recorded seven a month.
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]]>Opponents of a ban on the kinds of military-style weapons often used in spree killings – most recently in San Bernardino – often say that denying civilians the right to own such guns would violate their Second Amendment rights, or that it is not possible in any case to define such weapons in law.
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]]>What the ‘most armed man in America’ has to say about mass shootings
Colorado gun shop owner Mel Bernstein became casually known as the “most armed man in America” after acquiring thousands of high-powered weapons, bazookas and machine guns.
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]]>After I pulled the trigger and recovered from the recoil, I slowly refocused my eyes on the target. There it was-a tiny but distinct circle next to the zombie’s eye, the first bullet hole I’d ever made. I looked down at the shaking Glock 19 in my hands.
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]]>The Second Amendment is one of the most frequently cited provisions in the American Constitution, but also one of the most poorly understood. The 27 words that constitute the Second Amendment seem to baffle modern Americans on both the left and right.
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]]>It’s not big trafficking rings. Mostly, it’s through little guys like John Thomas.
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]]>In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t give a definite response to these questions, but her statement showed a White House hesitant to create new regulations.
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]]>Our family has moved three times in the past five years, and each move has necessitated a reckoning with where and how my guns are stored. My armory is small by American standards: two shotguns and a rifle. I don’t own a gun safe, which is enormous and expensive.
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]]>The post Trevor Noah Destroys Sean Hannity For His Delusional Las Vegas Response | HuffPost appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>“According to Sean Hannity, what really stops a bad guy with a gun is a Sean Hannity with a gun,” Noah said on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” Noah played a clip of the conservative pundit opining on his own abilities as he discussed the shooting in Las Vegas that left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 people injured.
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]]>Just 3 percent of American adults own half of the nation’s firearms, according to the results of a Harvard-Northeastern survey of 4,000 gun owners. The survey’s findings support other research showing that as overall rates of gun ownership has declined, the number of firearms in circulation has skyrocketed.
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