Despite gun-control push, more states have cut back on gun regulations since Newtown

[hack89]

Despite a major push from the White House, more states have cut back on gun regulations rather than pass gun-control reforms in the wake of the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Five states—New York, Colorado, Mississippi, Utah and Wyoming—have enacted seven new laws tightening restrictions on guns since Dec. 14, when a gunman shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before turning the weapon on himself. A sixth state, Connecticut, passed the toughest gun laws in the nation this week, banning some types of semi-automatic weapons and requiring all gun buyers to undergo background checks before purchases. (Gov. Dan Malloy is expected to sign the bill into law on Thursday.)

Meanwhile, legislators in 10 states pushed through 17 new laws that broaden gun rights. One such law, in Arkansas, allows staff and faculty to carry concealed weapons on university campuses. Utah lawmakers, meanwhile, passed a law to allow people prohibited from buying weapons for mental health reasons to petition the state to be able to purchase a gun.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/despite-gun-control-push-more-states-cut-back-135854909--election.html;_ylt=A2KJ2UihkV1RfxEAU1TQtDMD

If there was ever any doubts that gun control has divided the country.

[Hoyt]

1. It's divided the country in that the majority of gun nuts are right wing bigots who use their

guns for intimidation.

[premium]

2. Define a gun nut. nt.

[baldguy]

3. Anyone who looks at the ongoing massacre and still thinks the only solution is more guns.

Anyone who repeats the standard RW NRA talking points - like the lie that public support for gun control is soft & going away.

Anyone who stands up for the gun weirdos who want to carry their weapons anywhere & everywhere, and against those who oppose such nuttery.

Anyone who looks at an assault weapon and says: "That's not an assault weapon!"

Anyone who can't identify a gun nut when they see one.

[premium]

4. Thanks for the answer.

My definition is someone who feels they have to acquire an arsenal to keep the govt at bay.

someone who thinks that there should be no regulations.

Someone who outright rejects any new measures that might reasonably reduce gun violence.

I fully support the UBC, stiffer penalties for straw purchase's, mag. limit like what CO just enacted, plus the EO's the President Obama enacted.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Basically people who say things you disagree with and disagrees with you when you say

"All gun owners have blood on their hands"

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Anyone who doesn't use a can a beans for self defense

[derby378]

11. FTW!

[Robb]

7. Oh, good lord what a cherry-picked number.

The story is a repack from the Wall Street Journal, who themselves notes in the small print:

Notes: Maps don't include vetoed bills. Bills that weaken gun restrictions include those that make gun-owner data confidential. Maps don't include bills that address some areas, like penalties for gun crimes.

So if a state votes to make its ownership data confidential, that counts as "pro gun."

And if a state votes to increase penalties for gun crimes, that doesn't count in the "pro regulation" category.

Neither do any of the recently vetoed bills -- like Utah's HB76, that would have eliminated the need for a permit to carry a concealed weapon, vetoed by the Governor.

The story also is also cleverly premature; it ignores Maryland's pending (as in, will be signed any day now) legislation, which will include some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation; it doesn't count bills in New Hampshire which are certainly likely to pass; to say nothing of a half-dozen bills in Oregon that are certainly going to go through.

But no, the "gun rights" folks are "winning."

[Comrade_McKenzie]

8. Yahoo News is a right-wing rag. But couldn't expect any less from the OP. nt

[hack89]

9. Do you dispute the facts in the post?

you can show that it is wrong?