Owning a Gun INCREASES the Chance of Having an Accident. Suicides increase too... More Family Lives are LOST than Lives SAVED Defending Yourself from the So-Called "Bad Guys."

Bow and Arrow Hunting is a Great Alternative to Using an Assault Rifle to Kill Bambi. It has the potential to turn Hunting into a SPORT.

Of course, I am a Great Supporter of the Second Amendment as written... MUSKETS SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution... Rifles, Machine Guns, Bazookas, Rocket Launchers and Hand Grenades had not been invented yet AND ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT... 

And anyway, with the invention of Viagra, there is no real need for guns... Limp NRA "Members" can achieve a "Standing" Militia by just eating a Pill! Did you ever read one of those Magazines about Guns? In the back are Endless Advertisements for Erection Help... I guess they know their readers... 

Trump signed the
HELP CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS
Law. H.J. Res 40

If you are Getting a Social Security Disability Check FOR INSANITY... That Fact Is No Longer Reported on a Gun Buying Background Check... H.J. Res 40 - Trump Signed That Law in 2017...

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I posted on Facebook:

The Number One Cause of Death by Gunshot is Suicide. That's A Blessing as It Reduces the Number of "Gun Nuts" Alive.

KD Replied: Not a very nice thing to say Greg! You may want to rethink this post or remove it.

BAH Said: Not all gun owners are nuts. Moving to Idaho I discovered most here own them as there is hunting season here. I now own one for the purpose of going to a range to do target shooting. A common sport here and it is fun. We have very little gun crime here. And, I am not a nut.

I Replied: Go right ahead... Risk your life and your families lives... In 2017, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. Though they tend to get less attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. https://www.pewresearch.org/.../what-the-data-says-about.../

MD Said: According to your rationale, might as well stop driving a car too

Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads. An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.

I Replied: I don't own a car... I Only leave the house about once every three months and I Use Uber or Lyft... However... Cars provide a useful service... Guns Do Not. Absolutely useless... I truly Believe That the desire to Own Guns is a Genetic Trait. If Your Grandfather Owned Guns and your Father Owned Guns... it's Likely that You and Your Children will Own Guns... There is a "Gun Nut" Gene... and the Human Race would be better off when That Gene Goes Extinct... Did You Notice that Automobile Exhaust is a Major Cause of Climate Change? I have Often Ridden the City Bus to and From Work... It's Great... Especially in Eureka... I walked three City blocks to the Stop, Got On and the Bus Driver woke me up when we got to work... Then On the Ride Home I Chatted with a Pretty Girl that Worked at Costco... You Can't Meet Women if You Drive by Yourself in a Car...

JJ Said: Yeah. That doesn’t work on BART.

I Replied: Many Kind Services like the Bus Driver Watching out for me Fail IN THE CITY... That's The Beauty of Living in Small Town USA. I FLED San Jose in the Late 1990s and Moved to CHICO... and Rode My Bike Everywhere... then in 2001 Went to Humboldt State University in Arcata... It's almost Impossible to Believe that the "Real World" Exists when Living behind the Redwood Curtain... I see on TV That Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and their Lives Suck... but then I Change the Channel...  

JJ Said: Ya know. This has been debated. Argued. Yelled. Screamed. Legislated.

All ineffectively.

Two reasons.

1. Criminals do not follow any laws.

2. Congress does not want to piss off donors.

Stop and search laws were considered unlegal after implementing due to the overzealous actions of police.

Since this will always occur with military style police departments, it will prove to be ineffective continually unless other legislation is used to describe when and where to use stop and search techniques. You think since we have an all Democratic Congress right now that this would be possible but in fact most elected officials are so incompetent they can’t see through their own fucking glasses to get things done correctly. Actually writing legislature such that in very high crime cities are high crime parts of cities within certain boundaries, stop and search techniques are allowed, and only for the purpose of capturing weapons. Violators are not arrested their weapons are just taken away and they are put on a list that says who they are and what was taken from them. If they get caught a week later with another weapon then you can deal with them legally. But the law can’t just give police carte blanche to stop and search any car anytime anywhere if it’s not in one of the exceptionally high weapon crime areas.

Additional legislation would also be required to stop people with mental problems, histories, and could be even taking a step further that before you become a gun owner, you have to have a psychological profile done. Of course all these open up more and more lawsuits and so it would have to be vetted properly and conducted properly and taking into account the persons history, social media etc.

it also help if there was a database that showed what people were considered irresponsible, racist, volatile and these people are not allowed to have a gun. They would say it’s a violation of their constitutional rights but in fact, if Congress looked at the constitution correctly, they would understand that the purpose of the second amendment was to provide for a quick militia to be available if necessary. It wasn’t intended to let mentally ill criminals or violent people have a gun so they can use it inappropriately. Making that distinction of intent from the constitution is an important part of providing new laws that serve the times that we’re in. But the problem again is that our Congress is too ignorant to actually decipher these realities and propose and pass adequate legislature that takes into account the intent of the militia, which really no longer applies in 2021, and defers gun ownership to people who it is inappropriate for them to have.

and Yet, Guns Serve no Useful Purpose... Many People BELIEVE That Owning a Gun Will Protect Their Family BUT That Belief is FALSE. More People Die from Suicide, Accidents and One Family Member Killing Another Than There are Lives Saved Protecting Your Family From Bad Guys...  

Instead of Hannity, Try Sanity! Why Watch Talking Heads on TV Screaming DANGER DANGER About Problems You Can't Do Anything About? Is That Entertainment? Don't Be a Sucker, Unplug Tucker!

I Refuse to Watch FOX News. In General, What They Talk About Makes No Difference In My Life At All. And If There WAS Something Important, It's On NBC, CBS or ABC.

The FOX NEWS Marketing Plan is Hate Speech for High Viewer Ratings. CNN & MSNBC Target Different Demographics BUT... I'm Tired of Being a Target! I Read Google News Instead. 

Actually, I Prefer to Take a Walk in the Garden and Photograph Roses... Like This Pink and Coral Blend... AHH

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Texas Being Their Own Country Would Be Great... They are a FAILED STATE and the USA Spends a Lot of Money Keeping them Afloat. FEMA, Welfare, Border Security...

Imagine if They Just Solved Their Own Problems instead of always running to Uncle Sam for a Handout?

House Passes Bill to Make Washington DC a State... We Can Keep the 50 Star Flag if we Simply Threw Texas OUT! 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/politics/allen-west-texas-kfile/index.html

New Map of the
50 United States
Texas Gone -
Washington DC Added

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/04/texas-being-their-own-country-would-be.html

• Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns. It's Not Complicated.

   

  

  Remember: GUNS DO NOT SAVE LIVES... They Make Your Family Less Safe.  Suicides, Accidents and Murder by Family Members VASTLY Outnumber The Lives Saved by Defending Your Family from "Bad Guys."

  If Your Plan of Owning a Gun to Defend Your Family WORKED IN REALITY I Would Be In Favor of it. But Sadly, It Doesn't. 

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/ 

  "Conclusions: Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense."

  People Who PROFIT From Gun Sales Have Been Publishing FALSE Information To Frighten People Into Buying More Guns. The NRA Sells Memberships... Their Trick is to Scream Danger Danger You Need a Gun... Gullible Members of the Public are FOOLED... 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Cancels QAnon Civil War... STAND DOWN WANKERS! If Trump Fails to Be Reinstated in August DO NOT Start Shooting... It's Unlikely That He Will be Crowned King by Then... Be Patient... Trust The Plan...

 

QAnon Civil War Cancelled - Stand Down Wankers

and then... I read this Long Post about FAKE PATRIOTS... Makes Sense to Me... 

SE SAID: Nowadays, people call themselves "patriots" while they act like selfish jerks. They have no idea what it means to be patriotic. It isn't patriotic to refuse to follow health guidelines during a pandemic. It IS patriotic to do your part to protect your fellow Americans from getting sick. It also is NOT patriotic to carry guns with you everywhere you go, and it's NOT patriotic to make fun of people who are uncomfortable around your guns. It's also not patriotic to ridicule those who have different political opinions than you. We've always had two parties in this country, and one is not more patriotic than the other. You want to know what IS patriotic? Previous generations actually lined up to enlist in the military because they WANTED to fight in World War I and World War II. Nobody had to force them to enlist, they WANTED to, and they did so voluntarily because they WANTED to make sacrifices for their country. THAT'S what it means to be patriotic. When I read about the way it used to be in this country, it makes me so sad that it's changed so much. Our own citizens stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop the counting of the electoral votes, therefore interfering with our democracy - and those people view themselves as patriots. Would they voluntarily enlist in the military if we were to go to war? I'm guessing not. Those types of fake "patriots" don't care about their country, they only care about themselves. That's the opposite of what it means to be a patriot.

RB: Look at the states that are behind in vaccinations . There is a pattern , I don’t think I need to say it we all know. They will not change ever. Cause like you say selfish.

MK: It blows my mind at how many groups and sub groups of armed people like the Oathkeepers exist with their own definitions of what “patriotism” is.

CF: Yep. It's a weird flex. Funny, I was just thinking about this while in my car yesterday. If I see an American flag somewhere nowadays, like on a bumper sticker or something, I don't immediately associate it with patriotism; I associate it with negative things, like bullying, petulance, ignorance, even terrorism. It's sad. The people who flaunt it like it's a fashion statement, rather than revering it, give it a bad name.

SE: Yeah, it really saddens me the way some of the most UN-American people have co-opted the American flag as the symbol of their unpatriotic beliefs. They are the ones who stormed the Capitol, who want to overturn the results of a legitimate Presidential election...and if they had their way, they'd have a fascist dictatorship instead of a democracy. They are also talking about civil war if they don't get to re-instate their leader, who legitimately lost the election. These people proudly wave our flag and refer to themselves as "patriots."

VK: Didn't Donald himself get out of enlisting or some crap like that?

SE: Yeah, I'm pretty sure he did, but I'd have to read up on the details.

JD: he avoided getting drafted to go to Vietnam by having a family doctor say he couldn’t fight because of “bone spurs”. He’s ridiculous

SS: Well said.

DL: well there was a draft and you would go to jail if you didn't report, but unlike Vietnam you were fighting for the planet, so many wanted to join the fight! the way we treat our all volunteer veterans it's hard to believe we even have a military at all !!

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Let's Make January 6th a National Holiday. "Democracy Day" - The Day When the USA Stood Up to Monarchists That Tried To Overthrow The Government and Crown Trump Czar. BUT FAILED.

 

"I was Duped" says QAnon Shaman

Just Like the Fourth of July When We Threw King George of England OUT... or December 7th when Enemies of the USA Bombed Pearl Harbor... 1/6 is a Day That We All Should Remember... TREASON FAILED!

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

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4th of July Tip: Many Veterans Hate Surprise Firecrackers. They Think That The Enemy is Shooting at Them. SO... If You are at a Party With Veterans... Don't Blow Things UP!

and DOGS Don't Like Firecrackers Either... 

Remembering Veterans:

Vietnam Veterans - "The Wall That Heals"
a Traveling Wall for People That Can't
Travel to Washington DC

in Loleta, California... at the Bear River Casino...

I heard a flock of Motorcycles Drive by my house on Highway 101, then followed them to the exhibit.

The Bikers were escorting this Traveling Wall That Heals all around the country... 

http://www.vvmf.org/twth

The Wall That Heals: Mobile Exhibit. On Veterans Day 1996, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) unveiled a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed to travel to communities throughout the United States.

Arming Teachers with Guns is a Dangerous Idea - Opposed by Most Parents and Students. But It's a BIG SALE OF GUNS for the NRA.

Gonzo Marketing! What a windfall for Gun Manufacturers and Trainers. Hundreds of thousands of teachers would need to be taught how to kill... WHEE! Kids Killed! Mega Profit!

tRUMP got $30 Million Dollars campaign contribution from the NRA and he is a BOUGHT PUPPET... When they ask him to JUMP, he says "How High?" on the way up.

Remember, having a gun in the home increases the chance of having a GUN ACCIDENT. As a matter of fact, gun "accidents" are more of a threat to family safety than "Bad Guys" invading your house. Suicides, shooting a family member during an argument and kids playing with guns cause many more fatalities...

GOP Fails To Do Anything About Gun Violence. ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING AT A HIGH SCHOOL in Santa Clarita, CA - Vote Against Republicriminals Everywhere in Everytime. THEY ARE EVIL...

Headline: Democratic House takes action on gun violence; Republican Senate resists... 

The House is a hotbed of activity on gun-related issues while the Senate literally does nothing despite broad public support for comprehensive background checks, “red flag” laws, according to a Monmouth University Poll released this month. More than 200 days ago, the House voted 240-190 to expand background checks and 228-198 to close the “Charleston loophole” that allowed a white supremacist to buy a gun and kill nine African Americans in a church. This month, House committees passed five more bills. They would ban high-capacity magazines, take guns away from potentially dangerous people before tragedy strikes, and enhance data on school shootings—deaths, injuries, and demographics. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuses to bring the Background Check Expansion Act (S. 42) to the Senate floor—or any other legislation to help prevent gun violence. “Well, we’re in discussions about what to do on the gun issue in the wake of these horrendous shootings,” he said after a shooting on Labor Day weekend in Odessa, Tex., killed seven and injured 25 more—the fourth massacre in less than two months.
https://educationvotes.nea.org/2019/09/20/democratic-house-takes-action-on-gun-violence-republican-senate-resists/

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GOP FAILS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS. Democrats in the House Pass Gun Control Bills but #MoscowMitch Prevents Laws From Being Passed. "The NRA Told Me to Do Nothing and I Will OBEY."

If More Kids Die at School THAT Will Relieve Large Class Sizes... Hot Stock Market Tip! Invest in Corporations that Make Bulletproof Backpacks... They are Sure to Sell a LOT this Year... 

#MAGAKillers HEADLINE: Trump calls for background checks after shootings. Yes. Trump is Right. Serious Background Checks before Guns are Sold. Lawmakers should take SOME ACTION to prevent sales of guns. SOME REAL ACTION.

Not prayers... Not Blaming Video Games... What we really need is that "TAKE GUNS AWAY FROM CRAZY PEOPLE" Law... Where police actually go to people's homes and collect the guns and MELT THEM. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-background-checks-after-shootings-suggests-tying-immigration-deal-n1039176

The El Paso shooting suspect wrote a 'manifesto,' police say. It was filled with anti-immigrant and racist language. (REPEATING Trump's Hate Speech... )
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/el-paso-suspect-patrick-crusius/index.html

The four-page document, titled "The Inconvenient Truth," was published on the online message board 8chan about 20 minutes before the shooting. The writing is filled with white supremacist language and racist hatred aimed at immigrants and Latinos, and the author says he opposes "race mixing" and encourages immigrants to return to their home countries.
Some of the language of the manifesto reflects ideas from President Trump, Fox News and the modern Republican party. For example, the document warns of a "Hispanic invasion" and says Democrats are using "open borders" and "free healthcare for illegals" to attract new voters.
The writer cites a fear that an influential Hispanic population in Texas would make the state a "Democratic stronghold." 

Simply MELT GUNS and they Will Not Kill...

This is the gun control legislation #MoscowMitch McConnell won't allow senators to vote on... WHY? Because He Is EVIL... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/04/mass-shootings-what-congress-doing-gun-control/1916451001/

In 2017, Trump Signed the "HELP CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS" Law... If you are on Social Security Disability due to Mental Illness... That Fact is NOW Prohibited from Showing Up on Background Checks... TOTAL INSANITY! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221

OUTLAW GUNS! Collect 'em and Melt 'em - A free Source of American Metal... No Need to Import Metal from China, we have Plenty Here at Home.

29 Dead at Mass Shootings... Insane Gunmen Shoot Up crowds... again... and again... and again... NOTICE A TREND?

The Solution is Simple. Outlaw Guns, Have the Police do a House by House search and Confiscate them all... Then Melt them in a Giant Blast Furnace and Use the Metal to build Cars, Trucks, Washing Machines and Lawnmowers... 

GEE, THAT WAS EASY!

NRA = EVIL

El Paso Shooting Suspect Reportedly a Trump Supporter Who Wrote Racist, Anti-Immigrant Manifesto.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/el-paso-suspect-shooter-trump-racist-manifesto.html


At least 9 people killed and 16 injured after shooting in Dayton, Ohio; suspect also dead.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-investigate-active-shooter-incident-dayton-ohio-n1039046

MELT GUNS MEME

Trump's trade war took a stunning bite out of the US economy. The strongest evidence yet that he's shooting himself in the foot.

Banksters No-Likee Tariffs...

https://www.thisisinsider.com/gdp-trump-tariff-trade-war-us-china-2018-10
The Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book, a collection of interviews with business executives from each of the Fed's 12 regional banks, was chock-full of concern about possible costs from the tariffs. And many major corporations, including Tesla and 3M, have estimated that the tariffs will add tens of millions of dollars to their costs going forward.

Another Mass Shooting using GUNS... Outlaw Guns, Save Lives... NRA now allows Secret Funding...

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2018/09/06/active-shooter-multiple-people-shot-downtown-cincinnati-dispatch-says/1210202002/

4 total dead, 5 injured two critically in Downtown Cincinnati shooting