| Decatur, Ala. | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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The National Rifle Association provided a service to America by placing a price tag on easy access to semi-automatic guns.
To the surprise of no one, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre’s proposed solution to mass shootings would require more guns. Reacting to the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, LaPierre proposed placing an armed guard in every U.S. school.
That the NRA proposal would not always be effective is not a solid argument against it. There are no solutions that will eliminate such tragedies. The best we can hope for is to reduce their frequency.
Estimates vary, but the cost of placing an armed guard in every U.S. school would approach $18 billion a year.
A proposed reauthorization of the assault-weapons ban would limit access to semi-automatic guns — those that fire a bullet with every pull of the trigger — and expand background checks. It also would ban most magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The law would cost taxpayers little. Such laws have been effective in curtailing both mass shootings and suicides in other countries.
The implicit question LaPierre posed to taxpayers is thus simple. Is easy access to semi-automatic guns and extended magazines a right that’s worth $18 billion a year?
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If faced with an unarmed victim, does it matter if you have to reload?
if faced with a guy with a 30 round mag versus a 6 shot revolver, does it matter how many people he can gun down?
If increasing taxes is necessary to pay the $18 billion and it will increase my family's safety then I'm all for it.
Not Me. Most Americans cannot afford more taxes. If you have that much money "lying around", you may offer some voluntarily. Many people are already in foreclosure & putting more taxes on them compounds the problem without really solving anything. No society has ever taxed its' way into prosperity.
Taking away high capacity magazines will only remove them from legal gun owners hands , the criminals and loonies will still obtain them on the black market or street corner or even from our own government. thru Idiot ideas like fast and furious that your beloved president moron Obama gave guns to the Mexican drug cartels. Which have already surfaced by serial number in our country and many others. So if you take our weapons and semiautomatic weapons and magazines you only expose us to the threat of violence from heavily armed criminals and a hostile Government that wants to disarm us to finish his "Dreams of his father" to take all our rights and make us a communist country with no rights or freedoms . It will be a sad day when this country allows someone like Moron Obama to disarm our society in the name of safety, no one will be safe but the criminals because they will be armed to the teeth and have an entire country at their mercy. A totally gun free zone , if that brave principal had just one gun available in that school , the outcome would have been drastically different. Wake up and smell the reality of what you people are wanting to do, if you disarm us as a society crime will skyrocket out of control , look at recently disarmed Australia their crime rate went through the roof . I for one do not want to be a victim or any of my loved ones. disarming is not the answer. if you take every man and woman's guns the criminals and loonies will still have them. Do you really honestly with good sense think criminals will give you their guns and magazines and ammo and play nice like good little criminals ? Wake up people this is ridiculous. The only way to protect these children and anyone else is to be aware of todays society and realize these loonies are targeting places they know that no one is armed and is a safe haven for them to carry out their sick plans. we need security and protection , not disarmament and control , gun free zones only mean gun free killer zones. you have to fight fire with fire. Better security and yes armed people in our schools , colleges , malls, restaurants and churches seems to be where it is headed if you actually want to be safe , but you go ahead and disarm the droves of sheep and let the wolves eat them , then when you get your heads out of your butt if its not to late maybe we can protect our society from tragedy like these of recent days. Open your eyes , armed protection works and works well , you Moron Obama would walk out of anywhere or go anywhere without ARMED GUARDS ??
No guns, no bullets no excuses!
Bubba
Read this and weep Bubba and DD:
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/washingtons-school-security-failure
I wonder if the teachers unions would be interested in kicking in some money to have an armed guard in the schools?
Wake -up bubba China has no guns, but 22 Students In China Stabbed To Death In Elementary School Attack .
John how silly you know the repugs cut the budgets Clifton just stupid. William no kid died, where did your read this lie.
John really? Clifton vote union! AND William lies so you go back to sleep.
Bubba no guns no one died from shooting
China? Now there's a country to compare to the U.S.! And who would say the gun laws we have now are making for a safer community?
Charles, John, James and T-Bone your taxes will not be increased. You're not in that bracket so fear not taxes.
Clifton what the teachers unions should be doing is getting hazard pay. It's not there job to police at the members exspense. You saw an oppurtunity to throw off on the unions. Which by the way are nothing more than lobbyist.
NO THE TEACHERS SHOULD NOT GET HAZARD PAY AND THEY SHOULD AT CERTAIN LEVELS (NOT ALL) BE REQUIRED TO PACK /CARRY AND BE QUALIFIED IN A FIREARM--THIS IS WHERE MORE PAY IS WARRANTED. THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST CAN STAY IN LOWER PAY. IN THIS DAY AND AGE WE CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY ONE TO JUST GUARD SOMETHING. MULTPLE DUTIES CAN AND SHOULD APPLY AND IF A WOMAN CANT HANDLE A WEAPON THEN ANOTHER OR A MAN CAN---AND STILL TEACH. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BEING ABLE TO WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME--AND THOSE WHO SPEW FORTH STUPID CRAP LIKE BUBBA MUST BE IN HIS BRAIN POWER LEAGE OF ZERO---HE IS PARTLY RIGHT---NO BULLETS---NO GUNS --NO KILLING BY NON CRIMINALS AND MORE GUNS/BULLETS/KILLINGS BY THOSE WHO INTEND TO DO HARM. IF THEY CANT STEAL GUNS/AMMO FIND A DEMOCRATIC DA THEY MAY GIVE HIM ONE AS THEY HAVE PROVEN GOOD AT ARMING DANGEROUS PEOPLE. HAPPY NEW YEARS ,OLD POLITICS ,AND NASTY WEATHER..