Posted on Dec 16, 2015
Congress poised to keep banning gun violence research.
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This sounds like another study that was, and is, a waste of our money and their time. I really don't believe we will ever have a ban on any weapons. I believe some should be reserved for only specialized needs, but I don't believe that will happen either. We're protected from that, and hopefully we always will be. There are laws and rules about buying a weapon, and if that was scrutinized more, I believe that would eliminate some of the mass shootings. But, if a person wants a weapon to do just that, they can buy it illegally. Or legally, if they aren't a felon and can pass a background check.
That's my take. Hell, anyone on a no fly list can legally buy any weapon they want. I still don't get that. That's my take on this repetitive subject. What's yours?
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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of a school shooting in Oregon this fall, it briefly appeared that Congress was willing to reconsider its two-decade ban on the use of taxpayer dollars to research the health impact of gun violence.
There was nothing particularly different about the moment, sad as that may be. The death toll was high, with nine people murdered at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. But school shootings have happened with regularity for years. And even in the wake of worse instances of gun violence, there were no serious efforts to undo the ban that prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting gun-related research.
What was different this fall was that gun control advocates prioritized reversing the research ban (perhaps recognizing that their other objectives were futile). Moreover, presidential candidates as ideologically asymmetrical as Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson said it was time to reconsider it. But perhaps most symbolically, the original author of the ban, former Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.), called on lawmakers to undo it.
“I have regrets,” he told The Huffington Post in October.
That's my take. Hell, anyone on a no fly list can legally buy any weapon they want. I still don't get that. That's my take on this repetitive subject. What's yours?
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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of a school shooting in Oregon this fall, it briefly appeared that Congress was willing to reconsider its two-decade ban on the use of taxpayer dollars to research the health impact of gun violence.
There was nothing particularly different about the moment, sad as that may be. The death toll was high, with nine people murdered at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. But school shootings have happened with regularity for years. And even in the wake of worse instances of gun violence, there were no serious efforts to undo the ban that prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting gun-related research.
What was different this fall was that gun control advocates prioritized reversing the research ban (perhaps recognizing that their other objectives were futile). Moreover, presidential candidates as ideologically asymmetrical as Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson said it was time to reconsider it. But perhaps most symbolically, the original author of the ban, former Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.), called on lawmakers to undo it.
“I have regrets,” he told The Huffington Post in October.
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SGT (Join to see) Brother, I hope they stop that nonsense, and I am still waiting for the WH press secretary correcting his press conference statement about the islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino guns, some where obtained illegally as straw purchases are already ILLEGAL in the books....
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SSG (Join to see) I hope so too. I hope these gun haters wake up and smell the roses. Our guns are not going anywhere.
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LCpl Mark Lefler
SGT (Join to see) - you dont get it do you? no one is taking your guns.. oh my god, get over it.
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Gun violence research amounts to this....a number of doctors...people with no qualifications for this job....will get together and discuss how to twist reality and make owning a gun a health hazard and try to make it sound like 'science'. Orwell couldnt even envision this kind of lunacy. This flows from the lefts ridiculous worship of humansim. Scientist are superheros to these people, if you have an advanced degree you are the brains of our human race....even if your a blundering idiot....and only if your science agrees with their humanistic philosophy. ' I feel like im taking crazy pills!!' What kind of ridiculous nonsense will the liberals come up with next? (its almost like a bad reality tv show except its real and its not entertaining) Make the whole country a 'safe space'?
We get to test the strength of our forefathers philosophy today more than ever. Soon as we get the democrats out of office the better....Next President who swears to protect the constitution and then begins to dismantle it needs to be thrown in jail for lying under oath.
We get to test the strength of our forefathers philosophy today more than ever. Soon as we get the democrats out of office the better....Next President who swears to protect the constitution and then begins to dismantle it needs to be thrown in jail for lying under oath.
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SrA Art Siatkowsky, I agree with what you think and what you said. Our world is so upside down, it's going to take forever for it to become a civil place to live in again. Attacking Iraq might have been a mistake, but this jihad war was bound to happen, no matter what party or POTUS is in office. It's a shame our POTUS has thrown us under the bus with his deliberate indecisive decisions. It took a home grown terrorist, a wife on a visa, and protests from both sides to get him to admit those shooters in San Bernardino are terrorists. Now, he's coming on TV and asking us to be vigilant, and report suspicious persons or acts. Like we didn't know to do that when the towers came down. He's a day late and a dollar short on a lot of issues.
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SrA Art Siatkowsky
I wish we could close up our borders like fuedal Japan but in this nuclear age we cant afford to not deal with the world. I watched the San Bernardino news as it was happening and it took the media almost 24hours after the shooters were dead to admit their nationality. It was such a biased report, had they fit the agenda, had they been white conservatives, it would have have been everywhere the moment they where killed. Instead the media sat on the information untill they couldnt sit on it anymore becuase it didnt fit the narrative. Its like Orwell should have named his book 2018.
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