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'No Way To Prevent This,' says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    "2-year-old dies after accidentally shooting herself, Hampton police say"

    'Murica!

    Article does not contain much more than what the headline say. In the next day or two I'm sure we'll learn more about how the toddler got the weapon.

    Ultimately I hope we learn that at least one of the adults in that household ends up in prison for many many years.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663


    Know Hope
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    Demographics certainly aren't changing for the better for the NRA and their ilk.


    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630



    https://youtu.be/-R8zoe6oLMc?feature=shared
    canuckland
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,330
    I didn't read/copy the article I saw in WaPo a couple days ago, but three strong gun-supporting congressmen were changing their tune (amazing what a loss in donations will do).  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    Some interesting data:

     Nearly 30,000 firearms have been stolen from vehicles since the Tennessee GOP relaxed gun laws. One decade after the “guns-in-trucks” law removed the penalty for keeping an unlocked firearm in a vehicle, thefts of such weapons have risen from just 46 in 2013 to more than 5,000 last year, according to data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, as reported by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville.

     

    Gun crimes have more than doubled in the state. From 2013 to 2022, Tennessee saw crimes against persons involving guns rise from nearly 10,000 to nearly 22,000. That number includes:

    • Aggravated assaults with guns: 8,600 to more than 21,000.
    • Murders: 223 to 504.

    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    lousubcap said:
    Some interesting data:

     Nearly 30,000 firearms have been stolen from vehicles since the Tennessee GOP relaxed gun laws. One decade after the “guns-in-trucks” law removed the penalty for keeping an unlocked firearm in a vehicle, thefts of such weapons have risen from just 46 in 2013 to more than 5,000 last year, according to data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, as reported by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville.

     

    Gun crimes have more than doubled in the state. From 2013 to 2022, Tennessee saw crimes against persons involving guns rise from nearly 10,000 to nearly 22,000. That number includes:

    • Aggravated assaults with guns: 8,600 to more than 21,000.
    • Murders: 223 to 504.

    This is completely out of the blue! If only we had AI or something even more futuristic that could’ve predicted this!
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    Legume said:
    lousubcap said:
    Some interesting data:

     Nearly 30,000 firearms have been stolen from vehicles since the Tennessee GOP relaxed gun laws. One decade after the “guns-in-trucks” law removed the penalty for keeping an unlocked firearm in a vehicle, thefts of such weapons have risen from just 46 in 2013 to more than 5,000 last year, according to data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, as reported by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville.

     

    Gun crimes have more than doubled in the state. From 2013 to 2022, Tennessee saw crimes against persons involving guns rise from nearly 10,000 to nearly 22,000. That number includes:

    • Aggravated assaults with guns: 8,600 to more than 21,000.
    • Murders: 223 to 504.

    This is completely out of the blue! If only we had AI or something even more futuristic that could’ve predicted this!

    stickers are more powerful than ai ;)

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    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,330
    edited February 2024
    A small victory.  Jennifer Crumbly, the mom who purchased a firearm for their disturbed son and repeatedly ignored the school's warnings about his mental health, was found criminally responsible (4 counts of involuntary manslaughter) for the mass shooting at Oxford HS in Michigan (so many of them I can't keep the names straight anymore).  His father's trial starts next month.  
    Baby steps.  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    Botch said:
    A small victory.  Jennifer Crumbly, the mom who purchased a firearm for their disturbed son and repeatedly ignored the school's warnings about his mental health, was found criminally responsible (4 counts of involuntary manslaughter) for the mass shooting at Oxford HS in Michigan (so many of them I can't keep the names straight anymore).  His father's trial starts next month.  
    Baby steps.  
    Agreed, Botch.  If parents are held accountable, maybe they’ll start to think twice about keeping unsecured firearms in the house.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663

    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    To have what really should be a celebration by fans and a day that’s worry-free instead turned into one of terror and panic… effing A.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    Totally agree.  What have we become as a nation?   The moral fabric that meant something for the common good is being shredded.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    Tommy Tuberville is a loser football coach masquerading as a loser Senator, supporting a loser CHEETO.
    The above just confirms it.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    lousubcap said:
    Tommy Tuberville is a loser football coach masquerading as a loser Senator, supporting a loser CHEETO.
    The above just confirms it.  
    He might just be the dumbest Senator, and that bar is set all too low…
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    https://gizmodo.com/oklahoma-alabama-now-have-ai-powered-vending-machines-that-sell-bullets-2000377093
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630

    canuckland
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    How many self-protection good guy with a gun guns were confiscated?
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630
    May be I'm too naive or sheltered, don't know of anyone that owns a gun.
    canuckland
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  • dbCooper
    dbCooper Posts: 2,678
    Mexico might consider it a win if they could decrease to that percentage.
    LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
    Great Plains, USA
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630
    Perhaps the actual number is higher, considering not all guns are traceable?
    canuckland
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,330
    dbCooper said:
    Mexico might consider it a win if they could decrease to that percentage.
    Yup.  I have a musician friend who lives in Mexico and they're more furious about "The Iron River" (google it), US guns flowing into their country (where ownership and manufacture is against the law) than we are about fentanyl etc flowing into ours (where use and manufacture are against the law (Sackler brands excepted)); both are driven by High Demand, and they're impossibly intertwined.    
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    Canugghead said:
    May be I'm too naive or sheltered, don't know of anyone that owns a gun.
    The only gun we own is a Bug-A-Salt.  

    Very few people who live in my neighborhood here in the war-zone that is Durham, NC, keep a firearm in their home.  I guess we’re all just too woke?  I dunno.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    i dont own a gun....so i built a cannon to train the gun dog. a half a cup of black cannon powder doesnt seem to phase him.
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    we can now carry switchblades in massachusetts, i guess too many people were getting shot.......why on earth would MA change that law
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630
    JohnInCarolina said:
    Canugghead said:
    May be I'm too naive or sheltered, don't know of anyone that owns a gun.
    The only gun we own is a Bug-A-Salt.  

    Very few people who live in my neighborhood here in the war-zone that is Durham, NC, keep a firearm in their home.  I guess we’re all just too woke?  I dunno.  
    See, I'm naive again. Thought there are more firearms than people in :murica: Should have known sheep don't own guns  ;)
    canuckland
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    Canugghead said:
    JohnInCarolina said:
    Canugghead said:
    May be I'm too naive or sheltered, don't know of anyone that owns a gun.
    The only gun we own is a Bug-A-Salt.  

    Very few people who live in my neighborhood here in the war-zone that is Durham, NC, keep a firearm in their home.  I guess we’re all just too woke?  I dunno.  
    See, I'm naive again. Thought there are more firearms than people in :murica:Should have known sheep don't own guns  ;)
    There are for sure.  But, funny thing about statistics - they can be misleading.  That particular one is a reflection of the fact that we have a lot of gun nuts who own an enormous personal arsenal.




    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • StillH2OEgger
    StillH2OEgger Posts: 3,893
    Nothing irritates me more than having to use the roof because I've run out of deck space to display all of my firearms. Plus, Lily Sue will be losing her training wheels soon and we'll have to find more space for all of hers as well.
    Stillwater, MN
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,137
    JohnInCarolina said:
    Canugghead said:
    JohnInCarolina said:
    Canugghead said:
    May be I'm too naive or sheltered, don't know of anyone that owns a gun.
    The only gun we own is a Bug-A-Salt.  

    Very few people who live in my neighborhood here in the war-zone that is Durham, NC, keep a firearm in their home.  I guess we’re all just too woke?  I dunno.  
    See, I'm naive again. Thought there are more firearms than people in :murica:Should have known sheep don't own guns  ;)
    There are for sure.  But, funny thing about statistics - they can be misleading.  That particular one is a reflection of the fact that we have a lot of gun nuts who own an enormous personal arsenal.




    At least trade a few guns for a better smoker.
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