This morning on Meet the Press, Way Lapierre issued out the typical NRA response to another mass shooting: the good guys just didn't have enough guns.
National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre argued on NBC’s Meet the Press that “there weren’t enough good guys with guns" to confront the shooter responsible for last week's Washington Navy Yard rampage and he insisted that "when the good guys with guns got there, it stopped.”
After all, if more "good guys" had guns, then this kind of thing wouldn't happen. They just need more guns, bigger guns.
It's hard, really to define good guys in Wayne LaPierre's world. You're a good guy as long as you haven't broken the law with a gun, basically (or at least any we KNOW of). After all, every law abiding citizen should be allowed to own a gun so that they can then become that wild west style good guy.
Sometimes it's hard to know who the good guys are.
(CNN) -- In a new poll, Americans indicated that they support universal background checks by a margin of 91% to 8%. Even in households with guns, the margin was an overwhelming 88% to 11%.
But a more powerful NRA today is in no mood to follow the slogan of their "be reasonable" ad campaign of 14 years ago. This relatively small group -- the NRA boasts that it has 4.5 million members, which is peanuts compared to the roughly 40 million AARP members -- might have the political power to pull it off.
Federal law prohibits selling guns to felons or the mentally ill. Background checks are the only way to enforce that law. So, besides criminals and the insane, who could possibly oppose universal background checks?
Gun manufacturers.
So, if enough good guys had guns, this wouldn't happen, but everyone is by default a good guy... so I guess everyone should own guns, bad guys included and we should just be prepared to kill anyone on first site.
And we all know good guys never, ever make any mistakes.
http://www.usatoday.com/...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — An unarmed man who may have been looking for help after a vehicle wreck was shot and killed by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Saturday as he ran toward him, police said. The officer was later charged with voluntary manslaughter.
A statement issued by police said officers responded to a breaking and entering call on the city's east side around 2:30 a.m. Someone had knocked on the door of a residence, and the homeowner opened the door, thinking it was her husband. When she discovered it wasn't, she closed the door and called 911.
Plus, we all know the statistics say the more people that own guns, the less violence there is.
http://www.latimes.com/...
The findings of the American Journal of Medicine study may seem like an open-and-shut case against the gun lobby's oft-repeated claim that if more law-abiding citizens had guns, we'd all be safer from gun violence: The higher the per capita rate of gun ownership, the higher the rates of firearm-related deaths, the study found.
The United States, with 88.8 guns per 100 people, had a gun-death rate of 10.2 per 100,000 people. At the other extreme, Japan, with less than one gun (0.6, in fact) for every 100 people, has a gun-death rate of 0.06 per 100,000, and the Netherlands, with 3.9 guns per 100 people, has a gun-death rate of 0.46 per 100,000 people.
It is obvious. The math says I need a rocket launcher and a flame thrower. A bazooka and a grenade launcher. Let's just all agree everything says I'm a good guy, I've never had a first offense, and the first time I kill a bunch of people with an accidental grenade launch and ONLY then am I really a bad guy.. and probably not really that bad of a guy, just made a mistake.