Gun Control & RKBA
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Check how many errors, lies, exaggerations and such you can find.To get you started:
Across America guns have become easier to purchase, Mr Krisberg said, evident by the record number of sales over Christmas.Anyone care to venture a definition of the term "easier"?
I know of no civilised country that would put up with the kind of unregulated gun licensing that is currently in the US.Wouldn't that qualify as an oxymoron?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)That number is expected to increase for 2011, according to Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at Berkley School of Law, University of California.
Overall violent crime rates in the US are going down but comparatively, shootings and homicides are going up a little bit, he said. Last year we had both an increase in police officers shot and killed and also an uptake in citizens being shot and killed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11728168
ATLANTA (AP) - For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death.
U.S. Health officials say the murder rate fell enough in 2010 to drop it out of the top 15 causes. Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down in recent years...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)"Almost every single Republican candidate for the presidency is supporting virtually unlimited gun sales..."
I need to look up English slang for "virtually".
or
"Barack Obama had been considered tightening gun laws in 2009 but no legislation has ever materialised."
I thought Obama was President and no longer a Congressman. What do I know?
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Naturally really arrogant.
E6-B
(153 posts)How do you determine a writer is such?
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Obvious to the casual observer.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...that new fangled NRAdar.
SteveW
(754 posts)From the article:
"the immediate result has been a more liberal view on allowing citizens to bear arms."
Sounds like a proper use of the term to me.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)I did notice that.
There's a line from a movie:
"If there was a car crash ten blocks away, that window washer up there could probably see it. Now, that doesn't mean he's God, or even smarter than we are. But from where he's sitting, he can see a little further down the road." (Alan Bates)
Sometimes to see, you need to be in the right place.
Here's to all of us on both sides of the debate being in the right place.
SteveW
(754 posts)Where the window washer could see a long way. Until he suddenly plunged to his death; mob dispute.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)My quote was from The Mothman Prophecies.
Will Patton did a good job as Gordon Smallwood.
I'll have to see Billy Bathgate. Thanks for the idea.
SteveW
(754 posts)That wrote the script for a thousand "modern," bleak westerns: Bad Man from Bodie, or Tolstoy's stranger comes to town.
Euromutt
(6,506 posts)They're still not over the US reading the UK the riot act over the Suez crisis, and the poor dears have to have something to feel superior about, after all, if they have to make half of it up.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...the unknowing writing about the unfamiliar to the uninvolved financed by the unerring.
Have a nice day.