Wow that's pretty staggering but gun nuts don't care about deaths. They want to shoot guns.
Another guy who shot people because he thought someone was going to take away his guns...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/...is-kyle-sniper-truck-20130204,0,7212375.story
As some of this debate has gone on, it's begun to seem that these people aren't just about protecting themselves...they're fantasizing about blowing away a few intruders, or the government giving them a reason to fight them. Basically, they're not thinking "In case X happens." They're hoping X happens.
Agreed. You'd think more of them would serve in our armed forces.
WHOA CHRIS KYLE DIED!?!?!??!?!
http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_22450039/st-paul-man-pointed-ak-47-at-daughter
A St. Paul man pointed an AK-47 rifle at his teenage daughter in a dispute over her getting two B's instead of straight A's, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Jan 25.
The Ramsey County attorney's office charged Kirill Bartashevitch, 51, of St. Paul with two counts of terroristic threats, one against the girl and the other against her mother. Bartashevitch is a Minneapolis Public Schools employee. The complaint gives this account:
Police were called to a school on Jan. 17 after a school social worker received a report from a parent who said she'd been monitoring her son's electronic communications and saw a message to her son. In the message, Bartashevitch's daughter said her father had pointed a rifle at her.
The social worker interviewed the girl. She said it happened Jan. 13 at the family's Hamline-Midway home in the 1700 block of Englewood Avenue, when she and Bartashevitch were arguing about her grades. The teen swore at her father and said she "hated" him, the complaint said.
Bartashevitch grabbed his new AK-47 -- he'd recently bought it because he feared such weapons would soon be banned -- and pointed it at the girl. The girl said her mother jumped between them while Bartashevitch was pointing the gun. Bartashevitch ordered the girl to go to her room, which she did.
This link is a few weeks old but I don't recall seeing it posted. A week after Sandy Hook, PBS commentator Mark Shields said on-air that more Americans have been killed by domestic gun incidents since 1968 than have been killed in all U.S. wars, ever. He wasn't exaggerating.
Gunfire deaths:
1968 to 1980 377,000 1981 to 1998 620,525 1999 to 2010 364,483 2011 32,163 Total 1,384,171
War deaths:
Revolutionary War 4,435War of 1812 2,260Mexican War 13,283Civil War (Union and Confederate, estimated) 525,000Spanish-American War 2,446World War I 116,516World War II 405,399Korean War 36,574Vietnam War 58,220Persian Gulf War 383Afghanistan War 2,175Iraq War 4,486Total 1,171,177
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mmentator-mark-shields-says-more-killed-guns/
^ People like this need to be made an example of. There should be zero tolerance for this sort of thing. If you can't figure out how to store a gun so your four year old can't hurt herself, you don't need to have a firearm.
Exactly. Should be a mandatory minimum sentence.