Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The NRA is an organization composed of and funded by members, people who believe in their right to keep and bear arms. Its size, wealth, and power is related to the well-funded and relentless efforts of the gun confiscation people. The NRA promotes gun safety, something most of the mainstream-media audience has not been told. During WWI, the NRA insisted upon marksmanship training for the military, something the military establshment thought was unnecessary. I think everyone knows the difference between a movie shooting and a real one. If amy skewed views are being communicated, it's by news media which report only the sensational tragedies and not the non-news of "the would-be victim displayed a handgun, and the mugger or rapist or armed robber ran away" (which happens in the majority of defensive gun uses). If you don't like guns, you do not have to buy one. In one town in the South a law was passed requiring all adults to buy a firearm. Though it was not enforced, being something of a tongue-in-cheek measure, the crime rate went way, way down. In D.C. after the Heller decision by the US Supreme Court overturned the complete ban on ownership of handguns even in the home, the violent crime rate dropped 10%. Who wants to see it go back up? Sent from my Verizon Wireless Pho;,,,jne ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Gun control Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 6:03 am i think you are right with luck though, we will get a reinstatement of assault weapons ban only a nip and tuck here and there over a long period of time may help the insanity of our laws i blame much of out fascination on the western movie culture many fed on they really believe all the trash of that ilk--that good guys can shoot the pistol out of the bad guys hand and save the day they have not actually learned to handle a handgun and relaized how impossible that control is ric On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Most European countries have those rights and more. > > But anyway, it is a useless debate. The NRA has too much political power > and the gun culture is too deeply ingrained in the US for anything to > change. There will be outrage and sorrow for a few days, but it will die > down and our collective attention will move on to something else. > > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information