Political Ramblings

[thaiturkey]

How about Australia?
Apparently The US gun related death rate is six times higher than Australia with our current gun laws.

From following article.
http://m.canberratimes.com.au/opini...g-over-gun-laws-in-the-us-20121228-2bz0a.html

Australia, I heard, has been free of massacres since the gun ban introduced after the tragedy in Tasmania.

 

[hemet dennis]

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The link didn't say that the violent crime rate has gone up after they banned guns.
But it did say that if we did away with the 1st Amendment it would be easier to do away with the 2nd Amendment.

 

[hemet dennis]

They referred to the 2nd Amendment as " the accursedly misinterpreted Second Amendment to the US constitution"

I'll admit I had to look up the definition of accursedly.

adjective 1. under a curse; doomed; ill-fated. 2. damnable; detestable.
ac·curs·ed (-kûr s d, -kûrst) also ac·curst (-kûrst) adj. 1. Abominable; hateful: this accursed mud.

Oh well.

But they only called the 1st Amendment a weakness.

"In the US, the weakness is founded in the free-speech First Amendment (the one just above the right to bear arms)."

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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First, the US an Australia are no where near the same country. But lest look at what that person is saying. Go read it close. "Gun" deaths are down... "Gun" crime is down. "Gun" suicides are down.. Those statements are probably true... The question to ask your self is why did he not just say Deaths are down, crime is down, suicides are down? I bet he did not say that cause it would not be true. If it was true he would have said that wouldn't he? If you ban guns, the need to use a gun to rob an kill someone goes down too. Why shoot a man in his home an have the neighbors hear it an call the police when you know he is not armed an can just beat or stab him to death. Also people that would not have done it now will cause it is now safer for them. What the writer is doing is filtering out all crime that did not use a gun so his numbers fit the propaganda he is selling an hoping everyone takes it at face value. Any time someone is filtering the numbers, you need to ask why..

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Good luck restricting anything at this point...

 

[KrisH]

First, the US an Australia are no where near the same country. But lest look at what that person is saying. Go read it close. "Gun" deaths are down... "Gun" crime is down. "Gun" suicides are down.. Those statements are probably true... The question to ask your self is why did he not just say Deaths are down, crime is down, suicides are down? I bet he did not say that cause it would not be true. If it was true he would have said that wouldn't he? If you ban guns, the need to use a gun to rob an kill someone goes down too. Why shoot a man in his home an have the neighbors hear it an call the police when you know he is not armed an can just beat or stab him to death. Also people that would not have done it now will cause it is now safer for them. What the writer is doing is filtering out all crime that did not use a gun so his numbers fit the propaganda he is selling an hoping everyone takes it at face value. Any time someone is filtering the numbers, you need to ask why..

that was my point. It is violence, not the specific tool. Bombs, gasoline, hammers, knives, knife wielding people on airplanes...

Roberth

 

[rufus]

Did you see that Chrysler is going to manufacture Jeeps in China and Russia? So, I guess that "the lie of the century" that the Democrats accused Romney of telling, really it was true.

I suspect that Fiat/Chrysler will eventually withdraw all manufacturing from the US.

Sadly, people voted for generous unemployment benefits, food stamps and welfare rather than jobs. It looks like our nation is hooked on the opium of social welfare. This will not end well.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I think shipping cost is the issue here. They have been producing Jeeps in Egypt for a long time. VW just built there first US factory in many years. It is in Chattanooga. Cost of shipping something that big is more than the cost of running more factories. But then if I ran a car company, I would have shut down US plants years ago to get out from under the auto workers union.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Wow.. Some people.
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/columns/article_d5d4f286-5dfe-11e2-b3c1-0019bb2963f4.html

 

[bakerjw]

Good luck restricting anything at this point...

<SNIP>

It's actually pretty easy to machine out an AR lower using plate aluminum for the magwell. Not as easy as one of the plastic printers but still just a couple of hours work.