The Colonel likes to point to cities with tighter than average gun laws and loudly proclaim that they still have crime. Of course, how much crime is the question. Here are the top ten most dangerous cities in the US currently - all much worse than those the Colonel erroneously referred to as "gun free zones." None of these places have above average firearm restrictions. And if you go down the list a few past the top ten, you get to gun-friendly Spartanburg, SC. http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/the- ... ml/?ref=YF
Vrede too wrote:True. A guess is that O Really's point is more about society's reaction than what this mom "deserves".
Absolutely. I don't think putting her in jail would do anybody any good. It was clearly an accident, but an accident caused by negligence. I just want to see people whose negligence gets their kids (or somebody) killed get charged with something like the guy who accidentally leaves his kid in a hot car.
Top ten states for gun violence - I guess we would expect them all to be "gun-free" states with tight regulations on purchase and possession of firearms, at least according to the NRA. Or not... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-sta ... eid=yhoof2
Vrede too wrote:True. A guess is that O Really's point is more about society's reaction than what this mom "deserves".
Absolutely. I don't think putting her in jail would do anybody any good. It was clearly an accident, but an accident caused by negligence. I just want to see people whose negligence gets their kids (or somebody) killed get charged with something like the guy who accidentally leaves his kid in a hot car.
same thing
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Vrede too wrote:True. A guess is that O Really's point is more about society's reaction than what this mom "deserves".
Absolutely. I don't think putting her in jail would do anybody any good. It was clearly an accident, but an accident caused by negligence. I just want to see people whose negligence gets their kids (or somebody) killed get charged with something like the guy who accidentally leaves his kid in a hot car.
same thing
It should be the same thing, because it's the negligence resulting in harm that should be the issue. But if it's a gun, the "opps" defense works more often than not.
... higher ownership of guns in a state is linked to more firearm robberies, more firearm assaults and more homicide in general.
"We found no support for the hypothesis that owning more guns leads to a drop or a reduction in violent crime," said study researcher Michael Monuteaux, an epidemiologist and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "Instead, we found the opposite." ...
