The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

tell that to jeremy corbyn's critics

maybe? the notion that the CDC is restricted from researching gun violence isn't completely true -- "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control."

so technically they're allowed to, they just don't typically get the funding for it iirc

so they can investigate the effects of gun violence they just can't recommend that maybe thousands of lives would be saved each year if guns were harder to acquire? v reasonable imo

not saying it's reasonable!

didn't mean to suggest you were, just eternally amazed at the efforts america will go to in order to avoid gun control

american exceptionalism at its finest

"Pistol in the Bathroom" by the English Beat

The most common way gun owners carry concealed handguns is to attach the weapon to their belt or waistband, Dr. David Yamane, a Wake Forest University sociology professor who studies gun culture, told Splinter. But that becomes an issue when you to sit on a toilet and you’re carrying a gun that weighs a few pounds around your waist. So people sometimes take their guns off and find a space in the stall to stash them.

“It truly is a practical problem that many people have when they carry concealed weapons,” Dr. Yamane said. “With the liberalization of gun carry laws you are going to see a small number of people doing things like carrying a concealed gun into a bathroom, taking the gun off, and forgetting to put the gun back on.”

Yamane said that the rate of forgotten guns is relatively low compared to the number of people who carry concealed weapons on a daily basis. But it’s a common enough problem that the National Rifle Association has tips for its members on how not to forget their guns in the bathroom. “We hear many stories of people leaving guns in the stall or on the sink, even law enforcement personnel,” notes a 2017 article in the NRA’s publication Shooting Illustrated.

https://splinternews.com/an-alarming-number-of-guns-are-waiting-to-be-found-in-c-1823997714

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/rick-santorum-guns-cnntv/index.html

"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Fucking antichrist

Eat shit and die Santorum

Van Jones put him in his place

Santorum demonstrating once again that he's the living embodiment of his name's alternate meaning. What utter human garbage.

"But I think everyone should be responsible and deal with the problems that we have to confront in our lives."

Fucking insane.

Hmm. Maybe these kids who are mostly under the voting age, instead of organizing enormous rallies to effect change, should employ these guns you champion so mindlessly and deal with some problems. How about that, you massive fucking fecal spray?

They took action to ask someone to pass a law," Santorum said.

this is literally democracy you dipshit

Former GOP representative in failing to understand how representative government works shocker.

CPR rilly rilly helpful for gunshot wounds I guess

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/0n0B1F1k0u2J2n380Q26/my%20gun%20smells%20like%20cat%20food.jpg

There are worse people to have opening your Overton window:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/17167700/john-paul-stevens-second-amendment

would love to hear more and more of this

As the debate over arming teachers in schools reverberates across the country, Kansas is doubling down on the idea.

A new bill would not only authorize the arming of Kansas school staff, it would hold schools responsible if a shooting were to occur and the teachers and staff present were not allowed to be armed.
Here's the exact wording from House Bill 2789:

"In any action against a unified school district arising out of acts or omissions regarding the possession or use of firearms on the premises of such school district, there shall be a rebuttable presumption of negligence on the part of such school district when it is shown by evidence that such school district did not authorize any employee of such school district, other than school security officers, to carry concealed handguns..."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/us/kansas-house-bill-arming-teachers-school-shooting-trnd/index.html

I'm pretty sure the verbiage quoted there would net you a psych eval if you said it aloud.

I mean just what the raging fuck.

Fucking christ

a good way to help schools that just suffered a gun attack would be to punish them somehow, sure

The Vermont House has passed a bill to make background checks mandatory for all gun sales, ban high-capacity magazines, ban bump stocks, and raise the purchase age for rifles to 21; GOP Gov. Phil Scott, a gun owner, says he'll sign it: https://t.co/F8t4Px5V28

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2018

Nice!

The NRA will likely challenge it in federal court as unconstitutional, at least in part, but that's to be expected these days.

way to put a bullseye on yourself for tyrants, Vermont!

I swear if I see a single more "Actually, Bank of America is good now #welcometotheresistance" post/tweet/whatever I am going to burn down a building or something.

Very excited to share this project: "The Gun Studies Syllabus," which I created with the wonderful Caroline Light.

Gun Studies Syllabus https://t.co/pFRYghk0e8 via @publicbooks

— Lindsay Livingston (@lindsayli) April 12, 2018

it's been 2 months since the Parkland mass shooting, 6 months since the Las Vegas mass shooting at the country festival, and the 2 year anniversary of the Pulse mass shooting is coming up this June.

the national conversation has been had several times, everyone agrees that something needs to be done, and a few states and localities are starting to make changes. virtually nothing on the national level. is the strategy to just wait for the mid-terms and make it an litmus test issue then?

My guess is that so many national politicians have been burned by the NRA over hte years that getting any of them to make a forthright stand on gun violence is going to require a massive demonstration of strength by gun control advocates, plus some staying power across multiple elections, before incumbents get on board in large numbers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-financial-trouble-706371/

Aw, maybe they shouldn't have spent all that money on that presidential campaign.

4chan nerds are photoshopping David Hogg to look female, calling him Daisy, and then having sexual fantasies about their Daisy Hogg memes. I feel like this is some... new, uncharted form of self-own pic.twitter.com/UkbYERuhan

— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) August 28, 2018

nuke earth

https://jezebel.com/the-story-of-a-gun-1828629575

^ from that article I learned, among other things, that the CEO or Ruger is named Chris Killjoy, which may be taken in several apt senses. Astounding!

of Ruger

how much worse could this guy be? This much worse: https://www.sfgate.com/news/local/crime/article/Controversial-Austin-man-behind-3-D-printed-gun-13241265.php

Worse than whoever runs "sugardaddymeet.com?"

hey let's not quibble about who deserves to fall where on the Dante-levels-of-Hell scale

$500? damn

he escaped to asia, because of course

https://www.statesman.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-austin-man-center-printed-gun-debate-faces-sex-assault-charge/AnteUx5fI7LpNg6yg0Z1JN/

what a scumbag

not that it matters all that much in the scheme of things but why was he charged with sexual assault instead of solicitation or statutory rape?

https://i.imgur.com/JPOEj0z.png
https://i.imgur.com/faHvgSF.png
https://i.imgur.com/dMIS3rj.png
https://i.imgur.com/t23jKEZ.png

dammn that's cold work MAD

good for them.

also nice inclusion of the fucking useless metal detector

A kid was shot and killed at school this morning and they’re continuing on with classes like nothing happened. We’re completely desensitized to violence. This is the new normal in America. https://t.co/2pDfxiOwna

— Dylan (@dyllyp) October 29, 2018