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White House to Push Gun Control

I've heard people argue that it is an effect of Roe vs Wade. They point to statistics that show unwanted babies are more likely to commit a crime or serve prison time as adults. Hence, less unwanted babies equal less criminals. I don't agree with that argument myself, but it is interesting.

I've heard that argument, too, as well as that with civil rights inequity decreased, but I've never researched the issue in depth so I can't really speak or speculate.
 
I've heard that argument, too, as well as that with civil rights inequity decreased, but I've never researched the issue in depth so I can't really speak or speculate.

probably cut down signficantly in the number of potential dem voters
 
Here we go Obama playing politics and using a tragedy to forward his agenda

This will cause more disdain toward Obama from conservatives.

Gun-Control Effort Coming Soon From White House - Newsweek

At the beginning of his State of the Union address, President Obama tipped his hat to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who’s now recuperating in a Houston medical facility. But throughout the hourlong speech, he never addressed the issue at the core of the Giffords tragedy—gun control—and what lawmakers would, or should, do to reform American firearm-access laws.

That was intentional, according to the White House. An administration official says Obama didn’t mention guns in his speech because of the omnipresent controversy surrounding the Second Amendment and gun control. Tuesday’s speech was designed to be more about the economy and how, as Obama repeated nine times, the U.S. could “win the future.”

But in the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort in which it will urge Congress to strengthen current laws, which now allow some mentally unstable people, such as alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, to obtain certain assault weapons, in some cases without even a background check.

somehow i don't think obama gives a **** what conservatives think of him anymore. WHY DO YOU BELIEVE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE SHOULD BE ARMED?
 
probably cut down signficantly in the number of potential dem voters

Which is of course your highest priority and the motivating force behind all you advocate.
 
Probably the strictest gun laws in the country are in Washington D.C. and New York. Both of which have the most shootings in the nation.
 
Probably the strictest gun laws in the country are in Washington D.C. and New York. Both of which have the most shootings in the nation.

That might be why they have the strict laws. You may be reading the information incorrectly, drawing the wrong conclusions.
 
Do guns kill people, or people kill people?

If guns are banned, should knives follow under that same concept?
 
Do guns kill people, or people kill people?

If guns are banned, should knives follow under that same concept?

People do. However, I'm with, damn I forget her name, that former, late Texas opinion writer who argued killers need their cardiovascual exercise as well as anyone. Make them work for it. The point being guns ake it too easy. And there are areas where crime is so high, that it makes sense to try to curb access to guns.
 
more opinions from the linklessly unlucky

tell us more, mr fascinating

what's your favorite color?

LOL!
 
Sigh. Going over the same ground for the fortieth time is just really tiresome and boring...
 
Sigh. Going over the same ground for the fortieth time is just really tiresome and boring...

But this will be gone over agian, and again. You can count on it.
 
People do. However, I'm with, damn I forget her name, that former, late Texas opinion writer who argued killers need their cardiovascual exercise as well as anyone. Make them work for it. The point being guns ake it too easy. And there are areas where crime is so high, that it makes sense to try to curb access to guns.

Just came to me. Molly Irvins. Sorry, continue . . . . :coffeepap
 
somehow i don't think obama gives a **** what conservatives think of him anymore. WHY DO YOU BELIEVE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE SHOULD BE ARMED?

I don't, but that is no reason to punish the rest of us
 
Do guns kill people, or people kill people?

If guns are banned, should knives follow under that same concept?

people with guns kill lots of people.

people with knives ... not so much.
 
I think Barack Obama and the left should make the imposition of gun restrictions a major political issue.
 
Just came to me. Molly Irvins. Sorry, continue . . . . :coffeepap

The mother of all meatheads my wife used to call her after listening to her whine about guns more than a few people hoped a bike gang "had their way" with her.
 
people with guns kill lots of people.

people with knives ... not so much.

people with guns stop millions of violent crimes

people without guns normally are called victims
 
people with guns stop millions of violent crimes

I certainly hope so. We pay police officers money to do just that.

Is that hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, over the entire history of the USA, or over the history of the world? And you have the authoritative statistics to back up this boast? Statistics which definitively can quantify that claim and are widely accepted and respected?

btw - authoritative statistics refers to a source other than yourself that has some standing and is reliable and trustworthy.

I have never seen anyone deny that a person with a gun should not defend themselves against a criminal attempting to harm them. That is a given.
 
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The mother of all meatheads my wife used to call her after listening to her whine about guns more than a few people hoped a bike gang "had their way" with her.

Seems like a very uncivil and evil thought. I would hold more contempt for people who would wish for that type of harm to another human being.
 
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