I'm just curious to know how many mass shootings were committed by people with a criminal past?

 

Great post!!

And let me add one more. Just like Trump LaPierre dodged the draft during Vietnam by getting his doctor to write a letter that he suffered from a "nervous disorder." And now if they take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental illness maybe LaPierre won't even be allowed to own a gun. That would be some sweet irony there.

Off the top of my head I don't think many of them have a criminal record. And its the same with people with mental illness. I think about half of the mass shooters also didn't have any diagnosed mental illness.

And in the meantime things are getting rough out there.

Gun owners freaking out over Trump’s ‘betrayal’ of pushing bump stock ban and new gun regulations

 

I've never shot a bump stock, but I've shot other rapid fire add-on devices. I'm a better shot on my own than with one of those devices.
Maybe not as fast, but much more accurate, which is much more important than fast.

 

CNN Poll: Seven in 10 favor tighter gun laws in wake of Parkland shooting

 

The New York Times, By A. ODYSSEUS PATRICKFEB. 23, 2018

SYDNEY, Australia — The rampage at a high school in Parkland, Fla., has prompted calls for an Australian-style response, as have previous massacres in the United States. Australia introduced a comprehensive gun control regime after a massacre in Tasmania 22 years ago, and mass shootings heredropped to zero. Some experts regard it as the most effective gun control system in the world.

But the Australian model won’t work in the United States. Here’s why: We Australians have a profoundly different relationship with weapons. Americans love guns. We’re scared of them.

This difference explains why a conservative prime minister was able to confiscate some 650,000 privately owned firearms and ban semiautomatic weapons without a single reported act of violence...

Australians, on the whole, were happy to give up their guns and accept the new restrictions...

The indigenous population was displaced by force of arms, disease and appropriation of land, crimes for which many Australians still feel guilty. Prosperity, universal health care and unemployment benefits helped suppress crime. The few race riots that took place didn’t involve shooting.

Australia’s founding fathers, attempting to unify six colonies, didn’t mention guns in the Constitution. They weren’t worried about government oppression.

Over time, Australians came to view firearms with suspicion. Most Australians have never held one. Recreational shooting is regarded as a fringe sport. Unlike many Americans, who might proudly show off their latest pistol or rifle, Australians who own and enjoy using firearms, like me, try to be discreet...

Australian political leaders are rightly proud of our tight gun laws, which have also reduced criminal homicides and suicides.

 

Georgia lawmakers yank tax break for Delta after airline cuts ties with NRA


Georgia lawmakers voted to nix a tax benefit for Atlanta-based Delta as part of a broader tax package approved Thursday, following the airline's decision to sever ties with the National Rifle Association.

The bill -- which includes a sweeping income tax cut -- cleared the state House on an overwhelming 135-24 vote, after being approved in the state Senate on a 44-10 vote. It now heads to the governor's desk.

The final version dropped an earlier amendment that would have renewed a jet fuel tax exemption worth $50 million that was taken off the books in 2015.

“Businesses have every legal right to make their own decisions, but the Republican majority in our state legislature also has every right to govern guided by our principles,” Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who very publicly threatened to pull the airline tax break earlier this week, said in a statement.


Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, serving his last year in office, said he plans to sign the tax package, though he initially pushed for the airline tax break.


Deal said he would still pursue a jet fuel tax exemption separately.

The rejection of the tax break for now, though, marked a swift rebuke from state lawmakers, who had been weighing the restoration of the benefit until this week. It was originally pitched as an “airline tax break,” rather than one that would only benefit Delta.

But in the wake of the Atlanta-based airline’s decision to end its relationship with the NRA, Cagle, who is running to succeed Deal in November, warned that he would block any legislation that could prove to be beneficial to them.

“I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with the @NRA,” Cagle, who heads the Georgia State Senate, tweeted on Monday. “Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.”


Last weekend, Delta, which employs 33,000 Georgians, announced its decision to cut ties with the gun rights group, after the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting on Feb. 14 that left 17 dead. Delta announced that it would end the NRA’s contract for “discounted rates through our group travel program.”


“Delta’s decision reflects the airline’s neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,” read the statement posted to the Delta News Hub. “Out of respect for our customers and employees on both sides, Delta has taken action to refrain from entering this debate and focus on its business. Delta continues to support the 2nd Amendment.”

Delta tweeted last Saturday that they “will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.”

Delta added: “Delta supports all of its customers but will not support organizations on any side of any highly charged political issue that divides our nation.”

Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy and New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo both have invited Delta to move its headquarters to their states in the midst of the company’s disagreement with the legislature.

United Airlines also notified the NRA that it would no longer offer a discounted rate for the NRA’s annual meeting.

 

Trump Goes Gun Grabber, Prompting White House Clean-Up
The president on Wednesday took a handful of distinctly un-Republican positions on guns—including saying police should dispense with due process and just ‘take the guns first.’

 

Well, I know how you love Trump.... But don't worry, this won't effect Trump's support on the right because Trump won't be changing any federal gun laws... The main reason is because he can't....

So don't worry Stumbler, President Trump is not going to take your guns. Although in your case, he probably should....

 

Better stock up on guns now, the candy ass pussies are making headway with these distractions. Guns themselves don't cause mass shootings, so make everyone bend to make up for people that failed to raise their young right. I'm starting to think these "tragedy's" are either fakes or sacrifices. American history shows that the powers that be have no problem trading citizens to further it's agenda

 

@shadow walker

Oh bullshit you get more laughable all the time and you have really been out doing yourself lately.

Gun control support surges in polls

 

I am betting this is an accidental shooting where someone, probably an adult, was handling the gun, accidentally fired it, killed the poor little kid, and then were so stupid they thought they could lie about it and get away with it.

The NRA really should stop advocating for the rights of stupid people to own guns. They are killing off their future members.

Texas family busted after trying to claim 3-year-old boy killed himself with a shotgun

 

Ohio mom arrested after her 8-year-son shoots his 4-year-old sister multiple times

 

The number of Delta Air Lines passengers who bought tickets with NRA discount: 13


The airline doesn't disclose how many discount programs it has, airline spokesman Trebor Banstetter said. Delta had sold just 13 tickets under the discount program with the NRA, he said.

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Talk about your dyslexic metaphors, it looks like Delta cut off its face to spite its nose.

 

Berkshire Bank no longer providing financing for assault weapons manufacturer
The bank had previously provided a line of credit to the maker of the MCX rifle used at the Pulse nightclub shooting.

 

Fox host blindsides NRA’s Dana Loesch: ‘You’re not against universal background checks, right?’

And this was probably due to ignorance on the gun issue because the Fox propagandist said "universal background checks" instead of what the NRA pushes which is "comprehensive background checks." The NRA opposes background checks and just wants to sell more guns and they don't really give a fuck who buys them just as long as they have the money. But the NRA knows they can never admit that so they pretend they support background checks and don't want guns in the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. So they claim to support "comprehensive background checks." Which in reality is a background check system with wholes big enough to drive checks through and doesn't even address guns sold at gun shows private sales and most internet sales. So they are fighting tooth and nail to keep "universal background checks" from becoming law and closing the loopholes and hurting gun sales and profits. And Kilmeade probably didn't even know he used the term Loesch cannot even speak out loud.

 

Fighting as hard as lib's fight about Voter ID's?
Let's compromise and incorporate them together.
National ID's for voting and gun purchases and welfare and etc........

 

Toddler shoots and kills 11-month-old baby brother in Alabama — but DA says parents will not be charged