0bama calls for gun control because of Charlston shooter

[OldFatGuy]

"America must reckon with gun violence", well, I reckon I'll carry my gun just in case some nutbag wants to start shooting people.

[cdjohnson]

I live in Charleston, SC and i am very sorry for the victims and their family members. I really am. But just because one person shots people at a certain location. Its now a hate crime and we need to get rid of guns. He never said anything about gun control with all of the gang related shootings or when the terrorist (which had guns) were killed in TX at the rally. Why can't he state how many thugs and gang members are killed. Oh wait, i don't think that people would want to get rid of guns if the bad people are dying. I use my guns as a hobby not for criminal activity. The problem with gun control is that the thugs and gang bangers will still have the guns and there will be more shootings on law abiding citizens then there have been in the past.

It was a messed up situation here last night. I don't understand why someone would go into a church. I hope that person burns!

[Bawanna]

Harrylee I was just fixin to send out a search party, you've been awol for quite a spell.

My fear in all this is kind of what you guys say, now the guys who do carry in church will probably have to rely on a security guard that nobody knows or cares about but not be allowed to carry a gun themselves.

Probably go through a metal detector to enter the church. Not good. The sheepdogs become sheep.

[marcinstl]

it's easier to ban guns than it is to ban crazy people. there's probably a lot of folks who think the shooter is a hero, how do you ban that? is there anything new about this? looks like the SOS, different news cycle.

[SlowBurn]

What knee jerks they all are.
None of the proposed laws would have affected this situation at all. Background checks, private party or gun show restrictions? Father gave it to him. Assault rifles? This was a handgun. High capacity mags? He didn't have one. He just reloaded.
And yet the first reaction is - pass a law to make it harder for the law abiding to defend ourselves.
How about this? What if just one person in that congregation had been carrying? Might that have stopped him before he killed 9 unarmed helpless victims?
We'll never know, but at least it's something that might have helped, unlike a new gun law.

[JohnR]

While we were distracted by a drugged up hatebot murdering 9 people, the House voted to pass the TPA bill. Did anyone hear that on the news? I didn't, until someone mentioned it online.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/politi...ion-authority/

It's actually pretty easy to ban crazy people. It's just not politically correct so we're afraid to do it. What does that say, when we're more afraid of being bullied by the left than being shot by a crazy person?

The psychologists have us believing that either everyone's crazy, or no one's crazy. We all have some kind of three-letter syndrome, and we're not allowed to judge each other on our syndromes since everyone has one, so they can't be bad things. That wouldn't make sense.

[OldFatGuy]

Cigarettes kill more people, let's ban them. But, instead, the government allows cigarette companies to increase nicotine content increasing the addictive quality.

[deadeye]

Car, drowning and bicycle accidents kill even more. Let's ban them. Let's ban all personal freedoms and liberties. Then we can rest comfortably in Uncle Sugars loving arms. We are all wound about up about protecting the 2nd Amemdment. As many has claimed, it protects the rest. Why not get rid of all of them. We wouldn't need guns following this logic. Think of the money we would save!!!!

[Longitude Zero]

Liberals never let a crisis go to waste in order to advance their agenda.

[marcinstl]

Fox News(?) never let a crisis go to waste in order to advance their agenda. hmmm, 700 Club never let a crisis go to waste in order to advance their agenda.
it's been 6 years plus that the dreaded commie muslim has been in office, ya still got your guns and ammo(accept for .22lr) and the economy is rolling along (due to the efforts of business and not politics). if you'd been on vacation, you might wonder if Bush was still in office.

[BigHairyGobbler]

What? Your rant is nonsensical marcinstl. Good try for a liberal I suppose.


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[Longitude Zero]

What? Your rant is nonsensical marcinstl. Good try for a liberal I suppose.

And it shows a profound lack of awareness and education about reality. I hope he was being sarcastic and not serious.

[yqtszhj]

What? Your rant is nonsensical marcinstl. Good try for a liberal I suppose.


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He's always like that. He'll post something good in a while. I think it's a bi-polar tenancy.

[JMag]

I'm calling for him to resign over stupidity.

[TheTman]

Better outlaw Cars, alcohol, smoking, medical malpractice, and obesity, each kill more per year than guns. Also better ban hammers and things that can be used as a club, (Hammers, crowbars, baseball bats, ,Golf clubs, large wrenches, tire irons, etc). They kill a large percentage too. If you want to save the children, outlaw swimming pools, way more younger kids die from drowning than guns every year.
Here is what you get from banning guns:

In the 20th century alone, governments all over the world were responsible for the deaths of over 260,000,000 of their own people.
Stalin used government power to kill almost 50,000,000.
Hitler used government power to kill 11,000,000.
Mao used government power to kill between 30,000,000 and 70,000,000.
More people died as a result of their own respective governments than in all the wars of the 20th century.

- See more at: http://www.simplefactsplainarguments....vyvwRf8y.dpuf
That doesn't count all the "smaller" tolls like in Cambodia, Viet Nam, many parts of Africa during revolutions and regime changes.