Boy, Alberta is a cut throat place. The population of Ontario is 3.3 times that of Alberta but the total homicide rate is only 30% higher. That means that you are roughly three times more likely to be murdered in Alberta than in big, bad Ontario. But to hear them tell it, ...
Gun Control is Completely Useless.
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What about having all your valuable possessions on a device/pillar that activates a big giant rolling ball when people remove your valuables from the pillar?
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Woman fires gun son found in Adidas dressing room to see if it was real: Cops
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 07:47 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017 07:59 AM EDT
ATLANTA — Police say a boy found a gun in a dressing room at an Atlanta mall and it fired when the mother pulled the trigger to see if it was real.
News outlets report the mother and son were inside a dressing room at the Adidas store in Lenox Square on Wednesday when the 10-year-old boy found what he thought was a toy gun under a bench. Atlanta police spokeswoman Stephanie Brown says the mother took the gun from the boy and pulled the trigger “to see if it was real.” A single shot was fired.
Brown says there were no injuries. There was minimal damage to the wall.
No charges have been filed and the case remains under investigation.
gun found in Lenox Square dressing room
Woman fires gun son found in Adidas dressing room to see if it was real: Cops |
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 07:47 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017 07:59 AM EDT
ATLANTA — Police say a boy found a gun in a dressing room at an Atlanta mall and it fired when the mother pulled the trigger to see if it was real.
News outlets report the mother and son were inside a dressing room at the Adidas store in Lenox Square on Wednesday when the 10-year-old boy found what he thought was a toy gun under a bench. Atlanta police spokeswoman Stephanie Brown says the mother took the gun from the boy and pulled the trigger “to see if it was real.” A single shot was fired.
Brown says there were no injuries. There was minimal damage to the wall.
No charges have been filed and the case remains under investigation.
gun found in Lenox Square dressing room
Woman fires gun son found in Adidas dressing room to see if it was real: Cops |
Clearly, another leftard who never learned the 4 rules of firearms safety. Following any one of the 4 rules could have prevented her stupidity.
'We’re coming for you'; NRA targets 'elites' in videos
Lisa Marie Pane, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:09 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 02:45 AM EDT
ATLANTA — The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.
Using the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth, the NRA has put out a series of videos that announce a “shot across the bow,” and say the gun-rights group is “coming for you” and that “elites ... threaten our very survival,” terms that suggest opponents are enemy combatants.
“The times are burning and the media elites have been caught holding the match,” a video on NRATV, featuring NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, states,as it shows footage of people fighting police, breaking storefront glass and burning the American flag.
Later, Loesch specifically calls out The New York Times: “We’ve had it with your narratives, your propaganda, your fake news. We’ve had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life. And we’ve had it with your tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth or fact-based journalism,” Loesch says. “Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow. ... In short? We’re coming for you.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said the tone and language is “overwrought rhetoric” that, viewed by the wrong person, could lead to violence. The kicker on one of the videos — “We’re coming for you” — is straight out of the movies, she said, and “that phrase means that violence is imminent and we will perpetrate it.”
The NRA is taking a page from the Trump playbook.
The friction between the gun lobby and the media isn’t new. But critics of the NRA contend the organization is relying on the “fake news” mantra started by Trump to whip up its followers after a dip in gun sales that has taken place since Trump succeeded President Barack Obama, who favoured stricter gun-control laws.
“They’re not inventing this hyperangry, nasty partisan tone but piggybacking on Trump’s approach. Of course, NRA voters by and large are Trump voters, so they would be sympathetic to that kind of message,” said Robert Spitzer, chairman of the political science department at State University of New York at Cortland, who has examined the firearms industry and Second Amendment issues extensively.
Spitzer, a member of the NRA as well as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said it’s a pattern the NRA has exhibited as the group evolved from an almost exclusive focus on gun safety into a political beacon for conservatives who fear changes to the Second Amendment and the gun industry.
“It was Bill Clinton in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, it was John McCain. It was Hillary Clinton. It was the United Nations. They’ve held up the U.N. as ready to swoop in and take everybody’s guns,” Spitzer said. “The focus of their ire has changed, but the basic message has been the same.”
The NRA declined to comment on the videos to The Associated Press. But the NRA has produced videos saying the left and the media are out of control and feeding a false narrative that tea party conservatives are racists and Trump supporters are “toothless hillbillies.”
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the NRA, said this month: “There is no longer any difference between our politicians and the elite media who report on them. ... These elites threaten our very survival, and to them we say: We don’t trust you, we don’t fear you, and we don’t need you. Take your hands off our future.”
Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said it’s been a longtime frustration with journalists who, he contends, “ignore the violence and harsh rhetoric on the left while magnifying and twisting the words of those on the right.”
The NRA videos prompted Mike Nelson, a Democratic congressional candidate in Arkansas and self-described hunter and gun-rights supporter, to label them as “hate speech.” Nelson, whose website lists the NRA among more than two dozen organization he’s supported, said he can no longer back the NRA.
In a Facebook post, Nelson wrote: “If the NRA does not stop their hate campaign, I will call them out on sedition. Sedition is the wilful undermining of the legal authority, the Incitement of Violence.”
Some gun owners have cheered the videos and said they give voice to conservatives weary of media attacks on Trump; others say the videos stray from the NRA’s original mission and that the NRA is inviting violence.
Joe Plenzler, a Marine veteran who served overseas and sometimes had reporters accompanying his unit, joined two other veterans in writing an opinion piece for The Daily Beast criticizing the videos.
“The NRA props up the Second Amendment by undermining and vilifying the protections afforded in the First, and paints everyone who may disagree with the current administration, our country’s justice system, or the NRA’s partisan political position with a very dark and unjust broad brush,” Plenzler wrote with Marine veterans Craig Tucker and Kyleanne Hunter.
Plenzler, who has since dropped his NRA membership, said he was disturbed by the videos.
“Lately, it seems like they’ve gone well out of the bounds of any sort of sane responsible behaviour. If you want to advocate for the Second Amendment, which I unapologetically believe in, that’s fine,” he said. “But I think at the point where you are going to demonize half the American population in a recruitment effort to get more members, I’ve got a big problem with that.”
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch. (NRATV video screenshot)
http://nratv.com/series/commentator...tators-season-7-episode-1-taking-on-the-times
http://facebook.com/mike.nelson.507027/posts/1224608470983284
http://nratv.com/embed/video/commentators-taking-on-the-times
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Lisa Marie Pane, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:09 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 02:45 AM EDT
ATLANTA — The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.
Using the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth, the NRA has put out a series of videos that announce a “shot across the bow,” and say the gun-rights group is “coming for you” and that “elites ... threaten our very survival,” terms that suggest opponents are enemy combatants.
“The times are burning and the media elites have been caught holding the match,” a video on NRATV, featuring NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, states,as it shows footage of people fighting police, breaking storefront glass and burning the American flag.
Later, Loesch specifically calls out The New York Times: “We’ve had it with your narratives, your propaganda, your fake news. We’ve had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life. And we’ve had it with your tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth or fact-based journalism,” Loesch says. “Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow. ... In short? We’re coming for you.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said the tone and language is “overwrought rhetoric” that, viewed by the wrong person, could lead to violence. The kicker on one of the videos — “We’re coming for you” — is straight out of the movies, she said, and “that phrase means that violence is imminent and we will perpetrate it.”
The NRA is taking a page from the Trump playbook.
The friction between the gun lobby and the media isn’t new. But critics of the NRA contend the organization is relying on the “fake news” mantra started by Trump to whip up its followers after a dip in gun sales that has taken place since Trump succeeded President Barack Obama, who favoured stricter gun-control laws.
“They’re not inventing this hyperangry, nasty partisan tone but piggybacking on Trump’s approach. Of course, NRA voters by and large are Trump voters, so they would be sympathetic to that kind of message,” said Robert Spitzer, chairman of the political science department at State University of New York at Cortland, who has examined the firearms industry and Second Amendment issues extensively.
Spitzer, a member of the NRA as well as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said it’s a pattern the NRA has exhibited as the group evolved from an almost exclusive focus on gun safety into a political beacon for conservatives who fear changes to the Second Amendment and the gun industry.
“It was Bill Clinton in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, it was John McCain. It was Hillary Clinton. It was the United Nations. They’ve held up the U.N. as ready to swoop in and take everybody’s guns,” Spitzer said. “The focus of their ire has changed, but the basic message has been the same.”
The NRA declined to comment on the videos to The Associated Press. But the NRA has produced videos saying the left and the media are out of control and feeding a false narrative that tea party conservatives are racists and Trump supporters are “toothless hillbillies.”
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the NRA, said this month: “There is no longer any difference between our politicians and the elite media who report on them. ... These elites threaten our very survival, and to them we say: We don’t trust you, we don’t fear you, and we don’t need you. Take your hands off our future.”
Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said it’s been a longtime frustration with journalists who, he contends, “ignore the violence and harsh rhetoric on the left while magnifying and twisting the words of those on the right.”
The NRA videos prompted Mike Nelson, a Democratic congressional candidate in Arkansas and self-described hunter and gun-rights supporter, to label them as “hate speech.” Nelson, whose website lists the NRA among more than two dozen organization he’s supported, said he can no longer back the NRA.
In a Facebook post, Nelson wrote: “If the NRA does not stop their hate campaign, I will call them out on sedition. Sedition is the wilful undermining of the legal authority, the Incitement of Violence.”
Some gun owners have cheered the videos and said they give voice to conservatives weary of media attacks on Trump; others say the videos stray from the NRA’s original mission and that the NRA is inviting violence.
Joe Plenzler, a Marine veteran who served overseas and sometimes had reporters accompanying his unit, joined two other veterans in writing an opinion piece for The Daily Beast criticizing the videos.
“The NRA props up the Second Amendment by undermining and vilifying the protections afforded in the First, and paints everyone who may disagree with the current administration, our country’s justice system, or the NRA’s partisan political position with a very dark and unjust broad brush,” Plenzler wrote with Marine veterans Craig Tucker and Kyleanne Hunter.
Plenzler, who has since dropped his NRA membership, said he was disturbed by the videos.
“Lately, it seems like they’ve gone well out of the bounds of any sort of sane responsible behaviour. If you want to advocate for the Second Amendment, which I unapologetically believe in, that’s fine,” he said. “But I think at the point where you are going to demonize half the American population in a recruitment effort to get more members, I’ve got a big problem with that.”
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch. (NRATV video screenshot)
http://nratv.com/series/commentator...tators-season-7-episode-1-taking-on-the-times
http://facebook.com/mike.nelson.507027/posts/1224608470983284
http://nratv.com/embed/video/commentators-taking-on-the-times
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We need to arm the general populace to prevent crypto-terrorist organizations like the NRA from entering our peaceful country.
Team up with this head, and you'll complete each other.
We also need to scoop up the Albertans and re-settle them all in Tayeksus where they'll be so much happier.
One can imagine the outrage in the US should there be a proposal re: guns that is similar to Japan's policies. Their shooting incidents are virtually nil. but then guns are not an integrated part of their culture and life style. In the US the NRA has more power than the govt , the legal system .......and few will dare to stand up to them. This american flag that they are arguing about now should have a gun on it. as the gun is a more pronounced symbol of the US than the eagle or any star or stripe. But that is their culture and it is very ingrained now. It seems that getting a gun is a rite of passage thee. The stages of growth and developement are defined by getting a phone, a computer a car and a gun.;-)
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Why not let Alberta outdo Texas and decriminalize all weapons, NBC included. I'd love to get me a SADM... for defensive purposes of course. You just never know when an army might come knocking on your door.
Perhaps we should start a petition to legalize SADM ownership.
Did you notice any news about the spat of shootings over the weekend in the Lower Mainland this weekend . We Canadians are such a civilized group .
Trudeau is an outright liar or idiot when it comes to the permit to transport crap he spewed as opposition leader