Some gun quotes

Among America's gun violence incidence in the past couple of days: Three people died and two others were wounded Wednesday in Downey, California, after being shot by a gunman who is still at large (link); a 24-year-old Navy sailor was shot and killed in Baltimore on Wednesday night (link); three people were wounded in separate shootings in Chicago on Wednesday (link); and a man was shot and killed Wednesday while leading a prayer service in an Atlanta church (link)

Also, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released a report today on gun violence. Among its findings:
* Easy access to firearms with large-capacity magazines facilitates higher casualties in mass shootings.
* "Right-to-carry" gun laws do not reduce violent crime.
* Prohibiting high-risk groups from having guns–criminals, perpetrators of domestic violence, youths under age 21, substance abusers, and those with severe mental illnesses – and closing loopholes that enable them to have guns are integral and politically feasible steps to reduce gun violence.
 
In Chicago, seven people are dead and 21 wounded in separate shootings from Friday afternoon through Sunday (link). In Spokane, a 10-year-old girl shot herself with her father's pistol, two weeks after the father had taken a gun-safety course as part of his job as a police officer (link). In Pennsylvania, a 9-year-old attending a Halloween party was shot by a relative who mistook her for a skunk.
 
What changed in the past generations that we need a gun to settle disputes rather than fists?

Obvioulsy we failed socially, raising kids, that now they need a gun and the only solution is gun control.

The adults have failed. Educators have failed.
 
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* Prohibiting high-risk groups from having guns–criminals, perpetrators of domestic violence, youths under age 21, substance abusers, and those with severe mental illnesses – and closing loopholes that enable them to have guns are integral and politically feasible steps to reduce gun violence.
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IF only those criminals and drug users would just follow the laws.
 
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IF only those criminals and drug users would just follow the laws.
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Most people just don't get it...

Law-abiding citizens are the only people who obey gun laws -- and they're not the problem.
 
Quote from nutmeg:

What changed in the past generations that we need a gun to settle disputes rather than fists?

Obvioulsy we failed socially, raising kids, that now they need a gun and the only solution is gun control.

The adults have failed. Educators have failed.
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Guns are the great equalizer. The lumberjack and the accountant are on equal footing when armed.
 
"Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves."

- Wyatt Earp
 
A five-year-old girl was shot on Sunday while playing with other children during a baby shower in the Bronx (link). Two people were shot today while on the way to a funeral in Chicago (link). In Jacksonville, Florida on Friday night, a man pulled up next to a car of teenagers in the parking lot of a convenience store. After his girlfriend went inside the store, he asked the teenagers to turn their music down. After the teens responded, he pulled a gun and shot at the car eight or nine times, killing one of the teenagers inside. After his girlfriend came out of the store, the brave gun owner drove away
 
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