National Guns Have Divided America. Here’s What Happens When 245 People Try to Meet in the Middle

[Joe Link]

Guns Have Divided America.

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[albin25]

There's a MIDDLE??

 

[HB of CJ]

Maryland? There is no middle. Either you have the Bill Of Rights or you do not. Very simple. No middle ground at all.

 

[titsonritz]

How's that Baltimore crime rated treating you?

 

[Certaindeaf]

I got divided once.. she got half the guns.


















not really

 

[nammac]

Sorry, but the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is just that, a Right, guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. It comes right behind the freedom to speak ones mind... Pretty important stuff, written down and prioritized by folks much wiser than we have today...

There is no common sense anything needed here. It's a Right that's not up for negotiations... Period...

 

[Mark W.]

"Guns" are an inanimate mechanical devise with neither mind nor soul. GUNS HAVEN'T DONE A DAM THING. PEOPLE HAVE.

My Model 1895 Winchester is no more deadly then my 20 ounce framing hammer. Both can kill when used for that purpose.

 

[tourproto]

so much of the country is so ill-informed that they are unable to think for themselves and they will listen to, and believe whoever steps up to the microphone. And unfortunately, thanks to MSM, that message is that guns are evil. Forget the fact that it is an inanimate object, no different than a knife or hammer which also are used to kill people.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Younger people nowadays don't even know that there is a constitution or a Bill of Rights they are ignorant because that's the way the powers-that-be want them to be.
It's just disgusting the way our country has gone the last 40 years, it's just despicable.

Let's Let er Rip Tater chip!!!!

 

[WAYNO]

Guns haven't divided us. The new socialists have.

Middle ground is, if you don't want a gun, don't buy one.

 

[rick benjamin]

Smoke n mirrors
I want Wayno's truck

 

[41mag]

I want Wayno's truck

I'd expect that middle ground would be equal parts of 'fire & brimstone' with you in the middle....maybe with a too short stack of $100s......

 

[ma96782]

Guns haven't divided us. The new socialists have.

Middle ground is, if you don't want a gun, don't buy one.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Goosebrown]

The middle is following the explicit bill of rights. It's rather simple.

 

[DunRanull]

It isn't "guns" that have divided us.. it is the liberal insistance that we be disarmed. Not to put too fine a point on it- there is no "middle ground" when it comes to PRE-existing human rights codified and guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.. in this case, the right of the populace to have and carry arms.

 

[Jonnyuma]

Starting with the title and continuing through the tangled verbiage, this article is full of half-truths, mischaracterizations and outright misinformation.

"Research shows that while there are more guns in America than there were 20 years ago, they are owned by a smaller share of the population".
... oh yeah... and violent crime rates have steadily decreased.
"...community leaders say much of the gun culture is tied to a lack of access to education, jobs and opportunity".
So now thugs, gangbangers, and criminals are gun culture? Sounds like Europe.
"School shootings, astonishing a generation ago, have taken on the element of routine—both in the frequency with which they happen and in the public mind."
Routine?! Are you freaking kidding me?
"What more the CDC might have found we cannot say; Congress voted in 1996 to limit the scope of research into gun deaths and injuries"
That's an outright lie.

"Jonathan Stickland, a Republican, wants to remove permit requirements on gun owners in an approach known as "constitutional carry."
Since when does someone need a permit to be a gun-owner in Texas?

 

[justcuz]

Per the cited article:
Shootings are a common occurrence across the country.
...wide disagreement over how to count mass shootings...
...average of 35,000 Americans died from gun violence every year, according to the CDC.

Interestingly seems the CDC's data are suspect, Quote:
An analysis performed by FiveThirtyEight and The Trace, a nonprofit news organization covering gun violence
found that the CDC's report of a steady increase in nonfatal gun injuries is out of step with a downwardtrend we found using data from multiple independent public health and criminal justice databases. Unquote. The CDC Is Publishing Unreliable Data On Gun Injuries. People Are Using It Anyway.

Further, 35K deaths/year across this nation is a horrible statistic, but consider this, quote:
However, more than 32,000 people are killed and 2 million are injured each year from motor vehicle crashes.

One in 3 crash deaths in the US involved drunk driving, and almost 1 in 3 involved speeding. Unquote Crash Deaths in the US: Where We Stand

Two thirds of the driving deaths involved substances & excessive speed - really? Didn't Tricky Dick institute a 'war on drugs' campaign back in the '70s?

Finally consider this tidbit, a total of 58K US military died between 55-75 in the Vietnam Conflict, yet between 55-63 an average of 38K/year; 63-65 - 45K/year; 66-73 - 52k/year of our nation's citizens died due to AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS!

Almost a million US citizens perished on our nation's highways & byways during the same time period of the Conflict yet not one word is said about the tragic lost of life, only about horrible conflict!

Same mentality in today's commentary over yearly deaths by firearms. Want to make an anti go silent immediately...point out the deaths from autos per year, stressing 2/3 are caused by speed & substance use, then state we need further NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL control on driver licensing or banning of motor vehicles!

[sidebar: there is not federal mandates on citizens driver licenses/permits]

 

[nwslopoke]

My #1 issue with gun control is the 98% of lawmakers. Within their ranks is a high percentage of educated adults who somehow never reach the capacity to learn anything correctly about firearms. If they didn't make wild nonsensical statements I would be more willing to budge on my stance. But I will not until they display some level of understanding what they are talking about.

 

[slimmer13]

Guns haven't divided America, a section of the population decided to go full R and separate themselves from the rational world of adults.

 

[No_Regerts]

Maybe if there is no one in the middle, there wont be too many innocent bystanders when it all turns brown.