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looks like some gun owners are not happy
looks like some gun owners are not happy
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Merchants of death unhappy
So sad… hahaha
So sad… hahaha
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WTF issa FFL?
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Thanks
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Minnesota State Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) says safe gun storage laws will keep farmers from protecting their families against cows.
"You even walk too close to a cow, and it'll take you down and trample you into dust."
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Don't trespass onto farmland with grazing (not crazy) cows Farmers and their family and hands know how to treat cows in the fields. And farmers usually do not shoot their income generating critters, but later in life may send them to the hamberder factory ...
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Our walk takes us through a nearby farmers cattle… never had any trouble with them except an occasional one that wanted a hard head rub and got pushy… you just push them away.
OK there was a herd of Cattle at Stretton On Fosse in the cotswald that would rush public way ramblers in the hope of being fed apples etc.. they were a bit intimidating..
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https://www.rawstory.com/guns-cows/
A Minnesota Republican justified his opposition to new gun safety legislation this week by raising the specter of cows trampling unarmed Americans "into dust."
"Farm animals can at times be very dangerous," he said. "Take, for example, a cow who had just recently had a calf. You even walk too close to a cow, and it'll take you down and trample you into dust. And many farmers have a readily available gun just for those emergencies. Fumbling around with a lock while a cow or a bull or any other animal is going after your daughter or your son, you can't fumble around with a key or try and find a lockbox or put your thumb on a biometric key of some sort in your home while the danger is outside."
castigat ridendo mores.
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A farmers kids know better by the time they play in a cow pasture. And you do not carry the gun with a lock attached out to the field. Locks are for extra security while in storage. Also too one does not use a handgun to kill a wild cow, a rifle is needed.
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It’s as if the merchant of death lawmaker is just making it up
I call BS !
I call BS !
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A farmer is going to shoot a valuable milk cow. Uh-huh. If he can’t handle a cow, he probably shouldn’t go into farming.
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 24-00786-8It has been estimated that approximately 20–22 deaths occur each year in the United States from cattle, only 10 of which involved bulls. In five cases, multiple cows were involved in the attack, usually when walkers, joggers, or cyclists had entered pastures.
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Hmm...how does that compare to just the number of children killed by guns that weren’t stored safely?pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:13 pmhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 24-00786-8It has been estimated that approximately 20–22 deaths occur each year in the United States from cattle, only 10 of which involved bulls. In five cases, multiple cows were involved in the attack, usually when walkers, joggers, or cyclists had entered pastures.
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Assisting the spread of the polite society…
“Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68668460
‘“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" He pleads: "We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance."
For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK-47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and machine guns.
The weapons are fuelling the staggering surge in Haiti's gang-related violence.
There is no exact number for how many trafficked firearms are currently in Haiti.
The UN report said some estimates put it at half a million legal and illegal weapons here as of 2020.
It reported that guns and ammunition were being smuggled in from land, air and sea from US states such as Florida, Texas and Georgia.
There have been seizures in the country's main ports in Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix and in Cap-Haitien. Illegal weapons are hidden in shipping containers among toy and clothes donations.
In July 2022, Haitian authorities seized a huge haul of dozens of weapons with 15,000 rounds of ammunition. They were stuffed in a shipment from Florida heading to an Episcopal church in Haiti.‘
“Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68668460
‘“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" He pleads: "We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance."
For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK-47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and machine guns.
The weapons are fuelling the staggering surge in Haiti's gang-related violence.
There is no exact number for how many trafficked firearms are currently in Haiti.
The UN report said some estimates put it at half a million legal and illegal weapons here as of 2020.
It reported that guns and ammunition were being smuggled in from land, air and sea from US states such as Florida, Texas and Georgia.
There have been seizures in the country's main ports in Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix and in Cap-Haitien. Illegal weapons are hidden in shipping containers among toy and clothes donations.
In July 2022, Haitian authorities seized a huge haul of dozens of weapons with 15,000 rounds of ammunition. They were stuffed in a shipment from Florida heading to an Episcopal church in Haiti.‘
If you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 30789.html
The Maine Legislature approved sweeping gun safety legislation including background checks on private gun sales, waiting periods for gun purchases and criminalizing gun sales to prohibited people before adjourning Thursday morning, nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and the Democratic-led Legislature pressed for a number of gun and mental health proposals after the shooting that claimed 18 lives and injured another 13 people, despite the state’s strong hunting tradition and support for gun owners.
“Maine has taken significant steps forward in preventing gun violence and protecting Maine lives,” said Nacole Palmer, executive director of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, who praised lawmakers for listening to their constituents.
The governor's bill, approved early Thursday, would strengthen the state’s yellow flag law, boost background checks for private sales of guns and make it a crime to recklessly sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from having guns. The bill also funds violence prevention initiatives and opens a mental health crisis receiving center in Lewiston.
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I have never, ever seen a farmer carrying a gun to protect himself from cows. Damn right he’s making it up.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:04 pm It’s as if the merchant of death lawmaker is just making it up
I call BS !
The bitterest truth is more wholesome than the sweetest lie.
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Jamie and Jennie, who I know, had just left the cafe where the Gunman started shootings
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-20/ ... /103709918
My wife was at school across the road..
I had an idiot from my school who had modified his SKS to full auto.
I still think our gun laws are too lax.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-20/ ... /103709918
My wife was at school across the road..
I had an idiot from my school who had modified his SKS to full auto.
I still think our gun laws are too lax.
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Hell, if the Cattle are used to the Farmer he is probably in no danger. My Mother is in her 70s and she does not own a gin. and until very recently she was herding Cattle and feeding them with no problems.roadscholar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:07 pmI have never, ever seen a farmer carrying a gun to protect himself from cows. Damn right he’s making it up.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:04 pm It’s as if the merchant of death lawmaker is just making it up
I call BS !
Hic sunt dracones
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Pssst America…
It can be done if you want to reduce gun violence
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/ ... /103774904
In short: The federal government has committed $160 million to implement a national firearms register after state and territory leaders agreed to the idea last year.
The register will be a central hub of data from each state and territory, allowing near real-time information sharing across the country.
What's next? States and territories now need to reform their firearms management systems, with the aim to have the register fully operational within four years.
It can be done if you want to reduce gun violence
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/ ... /103774904
In short: The federal government has committed $160 million to implement a national firearms register after state and territory leaders agreed to the idea last year.
The register will be a central hub of data from each state and territory, allowing near real-time information sharing across the country.
What's next? States and territories now need to reform their firearms management systems, with the aim to have the register fully operational within four years.
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Local gun humper.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Some worthwhile work by TFNYT:
But as usual, the Times buries the lede. Not till past the middle of the article do we reach a discussion -- which could have been longer and stronger and flagged at the start -- of the reasons why this extraordinarily influential gun-supporting research is probably bullshit.
Garbage In, Bloodshed Out.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/g ... =url-shareThe Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle
Case after case challenging gun restrictions cites the same Georgetown professor. His seemingly independent work has undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests.
The New York Times, June 18, 2024
But as usual, the Times buries the lede. Not till past the middle of the article do we reach a discussion -- which could have been longer and stronger and flagged at the start -- of the reasons why this extraordinarily influential gun-supporting research is probably bullshit.
Much more in the full article.Dr. English extrapolated from the survey responses that guns are used in self-defense 1.67 million times a year, a high figure that has resonated in the courts: A federal judge last year cited it as he invalidated California’s assault weapons ban.
Some experts consider it to be vastly overstated. In 2018, the RAND Corporation analyzed a similar claim from a 1990s study widely cited by gun rights activists, and concluded it was “not plausible.” Other estimates range widely, with several putting the annual number below 100,000.
The professor’s definition of self-defense was broad: Almost a third of those who answered yes in the survey said they may have “verbally told someone” they had a gun, without showing one. In addition, the survey asked people if they had defended themselves with a gun ever in their lifetime, rather than during a defined period.
Dr. Matthew Miller, part of a team at Northeastern and Harvard universities that for years has conducted its own firearms survey, said some of Dr. English’s findings on self-defense “strain credulity” and his methodology yielded “absurd” estimates. Another researcher, Louis Klarevas of Columbia University, has criticized Dr. English’s work in expert reports for states defending against gun lawsuits and said he has not followed standard ethics practices for revealing funding sources.
“Disclosing survey sponsorship is vital to assuring that the survey was not designed or conducted to further the political or economic interests of particular entities,” Dr. Klarevas wrote last month in an Illinois case.
Other issues have also been raised. Dr. English did not detail how the online respondents were chosen or why they are representative of the country. And an examination of the raw data reveals that in reporting results, he omitted prefaces to survey questions, whose wording, according to some polling experts, essentially invited respondents to rebut supposed misconceptions about guns.
Elsewhere in his findings, Dr. English quotes about 30 gun owners attesting to the usefulness of large-capacity magazines for self-defense — but only two reported actually firing a gun, both at animals. He did not quote any of the hundreds of negative responses from gun owners, including: “There is no reason to have a magazine like that unless you’re fighting in a war.”
Garbage In, Bloodshed Out.