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Showing posts with label gun violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gun violence. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Friday, April 19, 2013
NRA hard at work
Louisiana leader in nation's gun violence - little or no gun control measures.
From the Daily Kos
Congratulations have to go out to the NRA for this one. Good work, NRA, your valiant efforts have helped catapult Louisiana into the lead for much-coveted status as "America's Somalia"!
A new study released last week by the Center for American Progress analyzed 10 key measures of gun violence and found that Louisiana is worst among the 50 states. Included in the report is a 50-state ranking of law enforcement feloniously killed by guns: Louisiana ranks second worst in the nation behind South Dakota.
Good attempt, South Dakota, but you're not really in the overall running here. Both Dakotas can still feel good about themselves, though, since both were highly ranked on the recent corporate-libertarian "freedom" scale, and nothing says "freedom" being able to easily kill police officers. If you want to be a real hellhole of gun violence, though, you'll want to be a conservative-dominated southern state.
So why does the NRA get a special shout out here? Because they went to special efforts to ensure that, in Louisiana, even violent criminals and the seriously mentally ill were still allowed to carry concealed weapons.
Gun laws in Louisiana prevent the state's law enforcement officers from doing their jobs, and put them at a much greater risk of gun violence. Last November, the state passed an NRA-backed ballot initiative that enshrined gun ownership in the constitution and removed provisions that prohibited certain individuals, such as domestic abusers and the seriously mentally ill, from carrying a concealed weapon. In March, a judge ruled that the amendment outlawed a "state statute forbidding certain felons from possessing firearms," noting that "The courts cannot question the wisdom of fundamental law and frustrate the will of the people."
From the Daily Kos
Congratulations have to go out to the NRA for this one. Good work, NRA, your valiant efforts have helped catapult Louisiana into the lead for much-coveted status as "America's Somalia"!
A new study released last week by the Center for American Progress analyzed 10 key measures of gun violence and found that Louisiana is worst among the 50 states. Included in the report is a 50-state ranking of law enforcement feloniously killed by guns: Louisiana ranks second worst in the nation behind South Dakota.
Good attempt, South Dakota, but you're not really in the overall running here. Both Dakotas can still feel good about themselves, though, since both were highly ranked on the recent corporate-libertarian "freedom" scale, and nothing says "freedom" being able to easily kill police officers. If you want to be a real hellhole of gun violence, though, you'll want to be a conservative-dominated southern state.
So why does the NRA get a special shout out here? Because they went to special efforts to ensure that, in Louisiana, even violent criminals and the seriously mentally ill were still allowed to carry concealed weapons.
Gun laws in Louisiana prevent the state's law enforcement officers from doing their jobs, and put them at a much greater risk of gun violence. Last November, the state passed an NRA-backed ballot initiative that enshrined gun ownership in the constitution and removed provisions that prohibited certain individuals, such as domestic abusers and the seriously mentally ill, from carrying a concealed weapon. In March, a judge ruled that the amendment outlawed a "state statute forbidding certain felons from possessing firearms," noting that "The courts cannot question the wisdom of fundamental law and frustrate the will of the people."
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Today's shooting report
More shootings, more injured and dead, still no new national gun laws to protect us.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
We need more guns?
The rightest of the right-wing gun imbeciles (we've passed the nut stage) are claiming that we need MORE guns, not fewer, to discourage the bad guys (or women).
From the Denver Post...
Because what we really needed here was for those girls to be armed so that we could have had a shoot out! How neat would that have been!
From the Denver Post...
A Denver mother who believed her daughter was being bullied at school drove into the school's parking lot and threatened four girls with a gun, according to an arrest document.
Monica Avila, 34, was charged Tuesday with four counts of felony menacing and one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds, also a felony. According to the probable cause statement accompanying her arrest paperwork, Avila drove into the parking lot at Lake Middle School on Thursday afternoon and confronted four girls, ages 13 and 14.
The statement says Avila began arguing with the girls about bullying. She then, while still sitting in her car, pulled out a black semi-automatic handgun and said, "Look what I have," the document states.
Because what we really needed here was for those girls to be armed so that we could have had a shoot out! How neat would that have been!
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