Actually, her name might have actually been Shelley. Too long ago to remember for sure. And I too have met some wonderful folks in the south, especially Mississippi. But in general, I found the majority to be guarded to the point of unfriendliness. It’s as if they have an inferiority complex….or a chip on their shoulders. Kind of a “the rest of the country is out to get us” attitude. Very defensive…….and I found that to be a consistent thing. They never seemed to be interested in why I was visiting their area and acted like the sole purpose of Yankee tourists was to judge them (Fair enough….but I waited until I got home to judge them). So very much to love about the south…..but the (white) people weren’t at the top of that list. They seem very insistent on clinging to the last century……
You may want to figure in Chicago, Baltimore and DC’s contribution to those numbers, then re-assess how well strict gun control laws are working.
Absolutely, and think of the time and effort wasted by the recipient having to go exchange the gift to get something they really wanted.
Gun control laws are of little value unless they're universal. If you can't buy a gun in Chicago, just go to Indiana.
Who doesn't love getting cash. And it saves the embarrassment of finding out the size of the gift by learning where the gift was bought and what was paid for it. I have a brother-in-law who has the nasty habit of buying something and getting something free as a result which he gives as a gift. He has even had to gall of giving the item to us and requesting the retail value of the item, which he got for free, in exchange. My mother has bought us stuff at a garage sale or on sale someplace that we didn't like and had to throw away.
I abide by the law and I have control over my guns. Wacko's and bad guys will always have access to guns we just need to do what we can to keep them from getting them.
Even universal gun control laws don't work. Australia has mass killings as often as they ever have, even after their strict gun control in the 90s. People just use arson and shotguns more often than they used to. But last time I checked, Australia had more mass killing incidents resulting in more deaths the 25 years after Port Arthur and the resulting gun restrictions than there were the 25 years before. And now you can just 3d print guns.... Gun control will never work. We need to address the root cause, which is too many desperate poor people having to compete with rich people. It all comes back to the Gini Coefficient...
In 2019 there were 416 killings by guns in Australia. Seems their universal law works after all. The net increase over 2018 was 39 people. We have that many in a single day. In 2018 we had 38,390 deaths by guns in the United States. Do you see the picture now?
Which is one of the reasons why I fully support efforts such as the Woodson Center. It's one of many like it in terms of working towards increased opportunities for the so-called deperate...as opposed to simply enabling them thru Socialistic means and methods. https://woodsoncenter.org/ The "Socialism now, Socialism forever!" remark was a sarcastic comparison to George Wallace's cry for segregation.
does this take into account how many guns there are in aussie? Or the population scale? whats the population of australia vs the us? how many registered guns in the us already? how many assumed illegal guns are already in this country. i find it hard to compare us to others without these ratios being factored in. (Not saying you didnt, im asking) In this country, i think gun laws would only remove guns from lawful people and the only ones left with guns would be criminals. Thats how i see it playing out anyhow.
Does it matter if people are killed by gun or knife or fire or poison? How about bludgeoning? Australia's violent crime and murder rates didn't fall any more than the US since their increased gun control, even while the US doubled the number of guns and let the Brady Bill "Assault Weapons Ban" expire... Us homicide rates have fallen more than UK, even though the UK also passed gun control mid 90s. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate_by_decade https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-1 http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=crim_off_cat&lang=en http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/auss...8BCDCF9DCA2578B700119690/$File/45100_2010.pdf
