[URL]http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/staggering-stats-there-have-been-more-mass-shootings-days-year-n473436[/URL]

[QUOTE]This year, there have been more mass shootings — defined as incidents in which four or more victims are shot — than days in the calendar year.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Fifty times more Americans have been killed by guns than terrorist attacks since 9/11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Global Terrorism Database says.[/QUOTE]

just thought I'd throw this in
 

[URL="https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-hoard-nearly-5-000-guns-shows-ease-200547133.html"]Man’s hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing arms in U.S[/URL]

[QUOTE]Inside, the guns were everywhere: rifles and shotguns piled in the living room, halls and bedrooms; handguns littering tables and countertops. Outside, when they rolled up the door on the pre-fab metal garage, more arms spilled out at their feet.

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[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gun-rights-try-gun-pride-gop-candidates-display-firearms-machismo/2015/12/04/1f24fa12-9ab5-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html[/url]

[QUOTE]“You don’t stop bad guys by taking away our guns. You stop bad guys by using our guns,” Cruz thundered to a roomful of Second Amendment activists.[/QUOTE]

Hat tip to the Texas Observer.

It's all about the money
 

[url]http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/why-the-gun-industry-has-us-over-a-barrel/news-story/e4b72289e90b5ceda7778208410d1d99[/url][quote]Money makes them powerful. The NRA has an annual budget of about \$US250 million. It spends \$15 for every \$1 spent by the gun control lobby and has them on the run. The NRA rates US politicians for how strongly they are committed to the right to own guns, and politicians fear a bad rating.[/quote]

It is discouraging. All that money gives them great public manipulative power, too, and not just in threatening [STRIKE]prostititions.[/STRIKE] politicians. :bangheadonwall:

[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-shane-coleman/served-my-country-but-only-shot-at-by-americans_b_8757940.html"]I Served My Country for 11 Years and I've Only Ever Been Shot at by American Citizens[/URL]
[QUOTE]But here's the thing: In the entire time I served in the military, I was never shot at. In fact, that didn't happen until after I got out of the service and it was done by one of the very citizens whose rights I sacrificed 11 years of my life to defend. That was the first time I faced the nightmare of surviving the military only to be nearly killed by those I swore to protect.

Since I left the military in 2006, I have been shot at, or been in the presence of a gunman, three times. I know that might not seem like much to some of you, especially to my fellow veterans. But think about it. Eleven years in the military and I was never shot at. Nine years as a civilian and I have had three different people point a gun at me. That's why Ke'arre Stewart's death hit me like a ton of bricks. He survived nearly a decade in the Army only to be gunned down in his hometown by an unstable American citizen with access to guns.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;418799][URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-shane-coleman/served-my-country-but-only-shot-at-by-americans_b_8757940.html"]I Served My Country for 11 Years and I've Only Ever Been Shot at by American Citizens[/URL][/QUOTE]

Wow. Just Wow.

Tom Tomorrow strikes again!

This a follow-up to a previous post. She received probation and lost her gun license.
[URL="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/10/1458941/-Vigilante-woman-who-fired-at-shoplifters-has-been-sentenced-vows-to-never-help-anyone-again"]Vigilante woman who fired at shoplifters has been sentenced, vows to 'never help anyone again'[/URL]
[QUOTE] A Michigan woman pulled her gun and fired at shoplifters in a Home Depot parking lot has been sentenced after pleading no contest to reckless discharge of a gun:

A woman described as a “sharpshooter” was sentenced to 18 months of probation Wednesday for firing a gun at the getaway car as suspected shoplifters fled a Home Depot.

Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez, who was licensed to carry a concealed weapon, said she heard a scream and feared the incident was worse than a theft. She acknowledged the shooting in the parking lot was a mistake.
Emphasis added because she’s no longer allowed to carry a concealed gun. As part of her sentence, Rochester Hills District Court Judge Julie Nicholson ruled Duva-Rodriguez cannot apply for another conceal carry permit until 2023, which is what prosecutors wanted:

[QUOTE]“If guns are taken away from her and she learns her lesson, that’s fine,” Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper told The Detroit News Wednesday afternoon. “That’s the key. That she doesn’t have access to guns and she doesn’t have access to ammunition. Hopefully someone has sat down with her and talked with her about what responsible gun ownership is all about.”[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandy-hook-american-kid-has-died-gun-every-other-day-n478746[/URL]

[quote]There are at least 554 reasons to ask whether American children are safer from gun violence today than they were three years ago, when the unthinkable happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School.[/quote]Our thoughts: In the same time period, how many American children were killed by terrorists?

[SIZE=1][COLOR=White]ISIS or NRA - Which is more dangerous?[/COLOR][/SIZE]