Are you watching the NRA press conference?

I don't think there are many people really sleeping with them under their pillow. In a nightstand drawer, sure.

In fact, they did... So let's look at the stats shall we?

From your article...

The number of people injured or killed by guns, excluding air weapons, has increased from 864 in 1998/99 to a provisional figure of 1,760 in 2008/09, an increase of 104 per cent .

That's it?

In the UK you have 51 gun deaths in in 2007, compared to thirty thousand on average in the US?

In the UK, only 6% of homicides involve firearms. In the US, it's 60%.

Yes, gun violence has increased over a two year period which not surprisingly took place during a world wide recession, yet even during this increase gun violence is still a lot less than in the US.

I'm curious to know what you think would stop a bad guy with a gun?

Not considered an assault rifle yet oddly enough looks a lot like the M1 carbine, which is what the US used to fight WWII.

Yep let's ban porn! Oh wait, I forgot this was an adult forum! Silly me :oh crap

So, anyone here supporting the NRA, is also supporting a ban on the adult industry?

Ok guys, you carry on with that, Us Europeans will be happy to have a bigger market share

You can't pay for everything, cops at every school now.
Bush gets a terrorist attack and the only thing he claims for his legacy is another one didn't happen on his watch. Well, look at the economy! Nice Legacy.

Terrorists commandeer a plane with knifes on 9/11 and suddenly guns are the largest issues.

take the guns from the criminals, then we can talk. Until then, not going to wait for thne cops while the alarm is going off. Put an NRA decal in your front window and you have just lowered your chance of a break in. Put a silhouette target with a bunch of holes in it and the phrase, Burglars wanted, Inquire within, now your chances of a break in have lowered even more.

About 10 years ago, there was a fire near my folks house in Northern California, My step dad was driving to the house where my mother was. The cops had a road block up that prevented my stepfather from getting to my mother. He had a 4X4 Dodge and drove around them and they chased him, when he rolled down their drive way, the cops saw my mother loading guns into the back of her car, they decided to let my mother and my stepfather stay on the property till they wanted to leave, which they did and the cops pressed charges, THEY LOST. The cops think they are the power out there but they are public servants. No one has the right to take you off your property like that. Just glad they didn't shoot at my mother.
Same neighborhood 32 years go, the I-5 killing hit 2 doors down while my stepfather was working nights. My mother was a mess for a while after that and walked around the house with a shotgun at night for a few years. They live in the country.

If you feel safe from all the evils of the world and don't like guns, no one is making you get one, unless you live in that county down in the south. I had an asshole walk up behind me a couple months ago and smash a beer mug in my face. While they were stitching me up, the cops asked for a description of the guy. I gave it to them and they arrested him two beds over in the ER, his hand was all cut up from the glass. I went to the arraignment, called him a coward and told the judge he was safer in jail. He was out on parole for two other acts of violence, one to his wife. He was 6'3" , just as big as me. You really want to know what the fucking problem is? It wasn't guns, it's about a fucked up system we have! Banning guns will do nothing but make people hide their guns.......

Shoots completely different, Mini 14 .223 is a rifle round where the carbine is a 30 caliber pistol round.

There are over ninety thousand public schools in the US.... So the NRA wants us to hire 90k people trained to use firearms by January 2nd?

Um, who is gonna pay for this?

I'm a gun owner and supporter of the 2nd amendment, but decals telling the world you own guns DOES NOT make you safer. In fact, it makes you more of a target to potential thieves ("hey, this guy has some guns..let's break into the house when he's not around." Most gun owners I know never advertise that we own guns, as we don't want them to get stolen.

As for gun bans, they won't work in light of the fact that there are already 300 million guns out there. Banning guns will be just as effective as Prohibition in the 1920s. Alcohol was banned because it was responsible for the pain and suffering of many. But the problem; the demand is insatiable, therefore it didn't work. The same thing with guns. Just foolish to bring up gun bans.

As for armed guards in schools, who the fuck is going to pay for that? Sounds like TSA 2.0 if you ask me. I'm not jazzed about my kids being around a mall rent-a-cop who thinks he's George Zimmerman. So if we are talking about putting trained black-ops type guards at our schools, someone is going to have to pay for that shit.

And the NRA blaming movies and videos games is just stupid. They had a chance to step up, and whiffed BADLY.

That's a very good singular example right there.

Any more similiar examples to offset the carnage caused by guns?

As has been pointed out, many schools already have this in place. I guess they would need to figure out how many DONT have this in place already, count backwards and go from there.

Ask the parents of kids in these schools if this is something they might want to have in place. What do you think the parents of those dead kids in CT would say?

Oh my god today really must be the end of the world. Im in perfect agreement with you

9/11 , they used box cutters

yes and they tightly control the sale of ammo. I think its only 50 rounds per person pretty much for life