Rachel Maddow On Never Ending American Gun Massacres

[onehandle]

Run time: 14:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys91m54MJdQ   Posted on YouTube: January 11, 2011 By YouTube Member: fusion07mp4 Views on YouTube: 154   Posted on DU: January 11, 2011 By DU Member: onehandle Views on DU: 975

 

[onehandle]

1. And the unreccers have arrived. nt

[rainlillie]

2. Nice to hear someone offering facts and not just an opinion.

Luv Rachael.

[Archae]

3. I did e-mail Rachel about one problem with her argument.

Gun control doesn't help in combating crime.

Banning those big magazines for Glocks is not going to stop the next massacre, the next shooter will simply carry more magazines.

Gun control may have had noble intentions, keeping guns out of the hands of kooks and criminals.
But the "Devil is in the details," and gun control only screws those of us who abide by the law.

[A Simple Game]

4. This guy had more magazines.

He was stopped when he was trying to replace the first empty one.
Might of been better if he was stopped after 6 or 8 shots instead of around 30.

[Tigress DEM]

5. Thom Hartman mentioned "Gun Licenses"

There are a lot of responsible gun owners who teach reasonable rational use to their kids, but not everyone gets that.

We get a license to drive a car and that helps hold us accountable for our behavior when we drive. Keeps society safer.

IF you had to have a license to buy a gun and meet some standards to renew your license, most people would be able to meet those standards fairly easily just like most people do what it takes to drive a car if that's what they want.

THEN since it would be illegal to have a gun without a license, anyone who had a gun but did not have a license for it would have to A) Surrender it B) Be fined C) Be investigated as well as the source who sold it illegally D) Possibly face jail time if there was any reason found to believe the gun was obtained with the intent to commit a crime.

Accountability not control is the real answer, I think.

I don't have a problem with my average American neighbor owning a gun to go hunting or protect themselves or use to form a militia if the Government really does become an oppressor.


I DO have a problem with people thinking that gun ownership is sacred...

and that human life is NOT.


Know what I mean?

[CTyankee]

6. Can you explain why YOU need "those big magazines"?

Just wondering about the logic of your statement that gun control measures screw "those ofus who abide by the law."

[Archae]

7. I don't.

So a law is passed, baning those big magazines.

Are the crazies and vicious criminals going to abide by that law?

[CTyankee]

8. ....until they use them to kill and maim and then THEY become criminals...