Aural Sects

May 09 2013 ∞

“ I have to wonder how many NRA members would shriek if the Federal Government passed a law requiring all gun owners to participate monthly in a government-run militia. And if it was worded right? They would have no Constitutional right to complain. To me, that sounds like the best method of handling gun ownership. Currently, gun ownership is a “right” but a lazy right. How many gun owners don’t regularly use their guns? Keep them in a forgotten closet or the like in case of emergency? So let’s require all gun owners to belong to government-run militias as dictated in the Constitution. The militias will include physical exercise regimens, gun safety and protocol, target practice, and the like. Oh, and a gun buyback program so that anyone who doesn’t want to belong to the militia can opt out by no longer owning a gun.

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Robert (via azspot)

HAHAHA BRILLIANT!

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WELL REGULATED YOU ASSHOLES

hahahaha

nra

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May 06 2013 ∞

liberalsarecool:

The gun lobby sells guns and fear, it does not fight tyranny. In fact, they are the money-wielding tyrants in modern politics.

Image Text: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” - FINE - that’s why we need universal background checks on… PEOPLE

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May 02 2013 ∞

Fun Fact: The NRA's new president called the Civil War the "war of northern aggression"

(Source: mediamattersforamerica, via stfuconservatives)

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Mar 18 2013 ∞

The NRA Wants To Kill Women

liberalsarecool:

“The National Rifle Association and its allies are challenging states’ efforts to take guns away from domestic violence offenders who have been served with civil protection orders…. In statehouses across the country, though, the N.R.A. and other gun-rights groups have beaten back legislation mandating the surrender of firearms in domestic violence situations…. Intimate partner homicides account for nearly half the women killed every year, according to federal statistics.”

This is a situation where the NRA has persuaded state & federal legislators to effectively grant licenses to kill (mostly) women.

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Jan 22 2013 ∞

Oft-Cited Anti-Violent-Video-Game Study Actually Says Guns Are The Problem

stfuconservatives:

Surprise! The study people cite that says violent video games cause gun violence *actually* found that domestic violence, poverty, bullying, and - SUPER SURPRISE - access to guns were all more likely indicators of future gun violence than playing video games.

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Dec 24 2012 ∞

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Two Webster firefighters are dead and several houses on Lake Road burned after someone opened fire on firefighters who responded to an early morning blaze, officials said.

Two other firefighters are in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

An off-duty Greece police officer who was driving near the scene was injured by shrapnel.

The dead are Lt. Mike Chiapperini, 43, a volunteer firefighter and the Webster Police Department’s public information officer, and Tomasz Kaczowka. Chiapperini led the fire department’s explorer program for high schoolers. Both men died at the scene. Kaczowka, in his early 20s, is also a 911 dispatcher.

“These people get up in the middle of the night to fight fires. They don’t expect to be shot and killed,” Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said at a news conference just before noon.

The shooter was found dead outside the home where the shootings occurred, killed by an apparent gunshot wound.

… Pickering said shots were fired at West Webster firefighters when they arrived on the scene. He said it appeared the shooter had set a trap for first responders.

After the fire became a crime scene, firefighters were not able to resume fighting the blaze until roughly 11 a.m., after the shooter had been confirmed dead, Pickering said. In the meantime, the nearby houses became engulfed in flames.

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The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, “Two Firefighters Dead, Two Injured in Webster; Shooter Found Dead.”

Go ahead, gun nuts. Have at it and blame the firefighters for this one.

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Dec 21 2012 ∞

“ By the time LaPierre insisted upon a national database of the mentally ill, one could be forgiven for wondering whether it should include the paranoid, delusional man himself because his description of people “so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them” surely fits the hard core of the NRA.

— NRA’s Wayne LaPierre was America’s mad gunman in first comments after Newtown school massacre (via wilwheaton)

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Dec 17 2012 ∞

Following Sandy Hook, gun deaths continue through weekend

stfuconservatives:

current:

The families of Sandy Hook, Conn., struggled to cope with the enormous grief of losing 28 of their neighbors, 20 of them children over the weekend.

President Barack Obama pledged to use whatever power the office of the presidency holds to prevent another tragedy like this one.

And elsewhere in the country, people continued to die from gun fire.

On Saturday, shootings in Cleburne and Oxford counties in Alabama left two injured and three dead, including a child.

A sheriff’s deputy in Missouri was shot in the back and killed while on the scene responding to an emergency medicla situation. The patient’s son ambushed the officer and shot him at close range in the back.

Authorities investigated the shooting death of a boy in Southwest Denver.

A man was shot and killed in Harrisburg, Pa., his body dropped off at a local hospital.

A Nevada man shot and killed himself on Friday after shooting his girlfriend in the face.

In the early morning hours of Saturday, police responded to a murder suicide. A 76-year-old man shot and killed a 51-year old woman with a rifle in California City, Calif.

A 28-year old man was shot and killed while standing on a front porch early Sunday on the West Side of Chicago.

A 21-year old man was shot and killed by someone he knew in Charlotte, N.C..

Two Topeka, Kan. police officers were fatally shot in the head outside a grocery store Sunday responding to a suspicious vehicle report.

The tattoo artist in a Los Angeles tattoo parlor was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Sunday.

These stories represent only a handful of the deaths from gun violence that took place in the 72 hours since Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg put it best on Friday:

“For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns.”

A lot of people have pointed out that, while the Sandy Hook shooting was an unthinkable tragedy, gun violence happens every single day in America. Here’s everyone who was sacrificed this weekend for America’s sick gun worship.

Also, yes, I will be talking about the shooting throughout the day. I will tag all of the posts with “gun control” if you want to Tumblr Savior it.

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kickair8p:

owsposters:

If Guns Were as Regulated as Cars

Download the high-def versions

The right to drive cars isn’t a Constitutional Right … which is something else that needs to be looked at.

Fuck the Second Amendment.

Fuck it.

No other piece of our Consitution has been so fetishized and canonized, to the point where questioning word one is equivalent to treason. Every other right int he Bill of Rights is subject to common-sense limitations and qualifications: you can’t yell “fire!” in a crowded theatre, you can’t use your religion as an excuse to beat your kids, police don’t need a full warrant to search you if they think you’re acting suspicious.

But challenge the right to bear arms, question whether every American really needs a dozen AK-47s and unlimited ammo, and suddenly it’s high treason? Fuck it. There is no benefit to allowing the unregulated weaponry free-for-all to continue, nothing that outweighs the lives of one gun violence victim—not the kids at Sandy Hook, not the audience in Aurora, not Trayvon Martin or Kasandra Perkins or any of the hundreds of accidental shootings, bystander deaths, and preventable suicides every year.

The Constitution isn’t divine revelation. It’s not the word of anybody’s God. It’s a rulebook, and those rules have to be interpreted in a way that works for the majority of people, and right now? The Second Amendment? It is not working. Not for anybody but the National Rifle Association and their corporate sponsors. So fuck it.

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Aug 13 2012 ∞

Shooting Reported near Texas A&M University School...

herlovewasajoke:

calystarose:

jennifermatarese:

cartoongoblin:

champagneattitude:

vindikateor:

Shooting Reported at Texas A&M University

School shootings make me feel so sick and immediately take me back to 2008. I lived on campus during the shooting at NIU, and some of my very best friends avoided the whole thing (same building, same fucking classroom) just by a few…

I was also on a school campus during a shooting. It was horrible and has never left me.

We seriously need to have stricter gun laws in the US.

For anyone counting, we’re eight days from the Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara shooting and twenty-four from Aurora. That’s three in one month’s span.

For anyone counting, we’re eight days from the Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara shooting and twenty-four from Aurora. That’s three in one month’s span.

I tried to write this as a reply to Caly but it was too long, so here it is.

I remember going to school while there were cops patrolling our hallways, because someone had made threats against teachers and students.

I switched high schools 3 times, plus had to do a summer semester at a forth in order to graduate. To say I had bad experiences is a given, but that one school was so amazing that even thinking about it makes me teary and nostalgic. I had to move in with my sister long enough to be put on her lease, so I could qualify for the school district variance, after the Board denied my application. Apparently threatening to drop out due to trauma wasn’t a good enough reason. My parents couldn’t afford to move across town in order for me to actually be in that area.

Confed was everything a school was supposed to be - warm, accepting, and it had an actual school community, as long as you weren’t a douchebag. One of my bullies followed me there and quickly found the tables turned. That was actually a nice outcome for me, if only because he was forced to live what he’d put a lot of girls through. He grew up pretty damn fast. I don’t know if the lesson stuck, though. I didn’t go to my reunion, and as neither of us ended up graduating from that particular school (it closed when we still had a year to go), we wouldn’t have crossed paths anyway.

So the point of this trip down memory lane - anytime shootings / school shootings are brought up, it always brings me back to being in grade 11 and seeing armed police officers walking up and down the hallway outside my chem class. The kids in the art wing weren’t allowed to paint in the hallways anymore, which was where we’d all end up when we were skipping class. (I had a math teacher come get us once. It was his thing.) We weren’t allowed to hang out in the basement (where my locker was) and play cards like the ten of us did ever day at lunch or during spares. We all had to stay in designated classroom areas which were well supervised.

It made me so angry. This was OUR place, our community, that someone had disrupted. Our home was being invaded, and someone was making us afraid to be there. It cast a pall over everything, and it was never quite the same for us after that.

We were very lucky that nothing came of those threats, but they never found out who made them, either. Something like that changes you, the environment, and the way you feel about both.

It’s a shame that this is what reality has come to. I’d very much like it to change.

reblogging for the above story

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Shooting Reported near Texas A&M University School...

jennifermatarese:

cartoongoblin:

champagneattitude:

vindikateor:

Shooting Reported at Texas A&M University

School shootings make me feel so sick and immediately take me back to 2008. I lived on campus during the shooting at NIU, and some of my very best friends avoided the whole thing (same building, same fucking classroom) just by a few…

I was also on a school campus during a shooting. It was horrible and has never left me.

We seriously need to have stricter gun laws in the US.

For anyone counting, we’re eight days from the Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara shooting and twenty-four from Aurora. That’s three in one month’s span.