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The Two Charts That Matter From Smith And Wesson's December Investor Presentation
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National Shooting Sports Foundation, Published December 3, 2012 –
“NOVEMBER NSSF-ADJUSTED NICS CHECKS UP 38.5%... Powered by the largest single day ever for background checks on Black Friday, November 2012 is now the record holder for the most background checks conducted in a single month. The November 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,525,177 is an increase of 38.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,101,076 in November 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2012 NICS figure of 1,997,703 reflects a 30.8 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,527,454 in Nov. 2011. This marks the 30th straight month that NSSF-adjusted NICS figures have increased when compared to the same period the previous year. The number reported for November 2012 eclipsed the previous high in December 2011 by 8.1 percent.”
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It would appear a lot of people are suddenly interested in hunting.
or.
It would appear a lot of people are suddenly interested in personal security. It is as if the US population is arming itself for war.
Yup, politician hunting. (unless you're Ron Paul.)
Nah, It's Wabbit Season ... to say otherwise is hate speech that will land you in Gitmo.
DUCK SEASON!
Corrupt Bankster season!!!!
I just want to go on record as having stated that I disapprove of the insinuations in the comments above. Violence is not the answer. Also, I lost all my guns, pms, and other preps in a boating accident.
I'm sorry for your loss(es), please accept my condolences.
I was always warned about the Muses and their singing at sea. Somehow I had a shipwreck also.
I buy lots of old guns for their scrap metal value hahaha
watching that limey cunt Piers Morgan involuntarily at a restaurant made me conclude that these statist progs were sitting around with their fingers crossed hoping for another shooting so they could beat the righteous drums for gun control.
Of course the debate is controlled; he won't challenge someone who has an answer to his "Britain, Australia, Japan" crap. Of course, he cherrypicks and excludes contrary examples, such as Switzerland or Mexico. Or even RSA.
Nobody will have a REAL conversation on what the root causes of crime are and by whom; akock will be long any minute now to call me a rayciss for pointing out the obvious.
I wonder how that gun ban worked for those Tottenhammers during the riot, you know when they were being stripped, robbed, and raped.
This country needs to partition and soon. Let the blue states of america, which is actually just a few cities and little else, go their own way.
Of course the statistis were sitting around waiting for something like this. Their reflexive response - demands for gun control - was as predictable as the sun rising in the morning.
The charitable explanation is that they can't accept the fact that there really are bad people in society, and instead blame inanimate objects for the actions of bad people.
The more likely explanation is that "a tragedy is a terrible thing to waste." An armed citizenry is just too difficult to control.
When you go on your gun buying spree, don't forget the bullets and magazines. Then find your friendly local range and learn how to use your purchases.
Sorry for the double post.
I'm pretty sure you mean the Sirens, not the Muses
Nah, he's just bemused......
Speaking of Gandhi...
http://www.naturalnews.com/038372_Gandhi_nonviolence_right_to_bear_arms....
Smith & Wesson's stock started dropping on Friday right after the bad news.
I call the stock a buy based on those charts...
Word. I bought SWHC today.
Long guns
Crocodile tears weren't even dry, and Rufus was talking about gun control. He seems to suffer from noosaphobia. Wonder why?
America will never be disarmed because like the movie 1984, constant violence and aggression is required to create and sustain the Oligarchial State.
Gun sales have a GREEN LIGHT, no matter how many kiddies get wasted.
Morally Bankrupt to the core. Bring on the NWO, because God knows when you have your freedoms and choose to construct hell at every opportunity, you fucking need it.
The US arms the world then goes around blowing it up. Apparently the powers that be would like to use this same strategy on the home front again.
More violence = more police, more homeland security, more guns, more loss of civil liberties.
But don't worry, the brilliant gun nuts on zero hedge plan to march into Washington and overthrow the place! Look out US military!
Anyway, you can't do anything about stupid people except grab the popcorn.
"except grab the popcorn"...indeed! +1
destruction = demand
nothing like WAR to get folks working again.
Yes, the real geniuses know that we must lay around and do nothing if we want to win!
you people are tards...if the US is going to collapse like most of you believe, you're going to fucking need those guns.
I've got two words which make guns obselete, they are, Swift Codes.
The Russian Federation, Germany, France, China, and UK also are top arms suppliers world wide.
In fact, from 2001 to 2003, the Russians were nearly tied to the USA for arms supplies.
But, don't let facts get in the way.
You've left out Israel, the 4th largest arms dealer.
From link:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=230979
Posted 31 July 2012 - 02:29 AM
Israel hits $7.2 billion in arms exportsTEL AVIV, Israel, June 17 (UPI) -- Israel's defense industry racked an unprecedented $7.2 billion in exports in 2010, up on the $6.9 billion achieved in 2009.
That put the Jewish state among the world's top four arms exporters but declining military budgets around the world are likely to reduce sales over the coming years.
"We recognize the challenges but we're working hard to maintain the level we're currently at and even to increase it," said Reserve Brig. Gen. Shmaya Avieli, head of the Defense Ministry's Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Department.
The Israelis are hoping to secure big-ticket deals at the Paris Air Show, a major international defense industry showcase next week at the Le Bourget exhibition center.
Government figures indicate Israeli defense companies sold military hardware worth $9.6 billion in 2010, $2.4 billion of it to Israel's military.
But meantime, China, once a promising market for Israeli weapons and electronic systems, remains off-limits, largely because of Israel's ally, the United States.
The Americans blocked the sale of four $250 million Phalcon advanced early warnings aircraft to the People's Liberation Army in 2000, citing U.S. components used in the systems carried by the aircraft. Beijing was furious.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who sanctioned the Phalcon deal, is currently in Beijing, the first such visit in a decade.
Israeli officials, however, stressed the policy of no weapons sales to China is still in place.
Gosh, if I could only think of another thing they all have in common (barring Germany, but our latest foray into history gives us the answer to that little oversight).
This chart is about one simple thing - long American stupidity. Never lose money betting on batshit crazy American rednecks!
Long NWO Redneck hunting equipment...a boom industry for the future U(N)SA enforcing Agenda 21 and sustainable redneck depopulation programs.
America is dead, long live Afghamerica. One giant PaintBall park...with live rounds!
Just one thing: it's not just the rednecks buying guns. I work in a professional environment with educated people. Half the guys own guns, the other half are seriously considering buying guns.
It's just a generalisation of a common meme, it's not meant to be completely truthful.....just 99.99% LOL
"Just one thing: it's not just the rednecks buying guns. I work in a professional environment with educated people. Half the guys own guns, the other half are seriously considering buying guns. "
But why? I simply do not see any rational justification. Armed citizens marching on Washington? Yeah right.
When it comes to crime, I've seen more than the vast majority here and our family has been the victim of serious crime more than once, having lived in the lawless nineties in Cape Town. Murder, rape, burglary and car-jacking more than a daily occurrence. Our house was armed to the teeth with an arsenal of firearms all safely locked away and out of reach for children and emergencies. If shit happens, it happens fast. Faster than you can walk over the safe, get the firearm out, load it and use it. Pretty much useless and with some bad luck will even be used against you. You can't have the gun under the bed, because that's where it becomes accessible to kids. Best security is still a high wall topped with an electric fence, private armed response companies, dogs, alarm system and burglar bars. Quasi voluntary imprisonment.
You lived in a 'high crime' area, you've been the 'victim' of serious crime and you keep your only protection in a fucking safe? "I simply do not see any rational justification" for this. Teach your kids about the responsibility of gun ownership and 'locking it away' won't be necessary. You're no good to your family when the only means of protecting them is locked away for safe-keeping....
Then please explain how you teach a 5 year old to safely use/not use a firearm. Even if older, can you reliably expect them not to touch it? I wouldn't trust my kids with a firearm lying about. Maybe bad parenting? I'm impressed you'd fully trust your small kids around a firearm. You could give me some valuable parenting tips then.
Long long guns.
I also bought SWHC today. Nice rally on the election paid for the CCW class and a nice new TBD piece of protection. Although, I have to admit to feeling a bit like Gordon Gekko shorting NASA stock when the space shuttle blew up. NASA stock... makes me laugh every time. Really tells you how out of tune Hollywood and the left are, but I digress.
Gekko had an ethical bypass at birth. That is what made him perfect for the role of the Blue Horseshoe.
Gekko should have shorted Daryl Hannah's face. Who did she blow to get into movies? Yuck.
Their last QTR was stellar. Listen to their last conference call. They are simply hitting on all cylinders. SWHC's next QTR revenue and profits will be huge. They'll raise guidance again. Gun sales are still booming. Obama is the world's best gun salesmen. Got Guns???
Bud Fox: “(To phone) Gordon Gekko please.”
Marv: “Oh Gekko. Gekko’s beautiful. Thirty seconds after the Challenger blew up he’s on the phone selling NASA stock short. Mr. Nice Guy!”
Bud Fox: “Yeah ... but 47 million he made on the Melcor deal. Twenty-three on the Imperial deal before he was 40. The guy makes 20 times what Dave winfield makes in a year ... and he talks to everybody.”
Marv: “And, he had an ethical bypass at birth.”
Maybe he was referring to NASA's suppliers.
Oh you mean those corporate multi-national capitalists colluding with big government and their no bid 'free market' contracts?
aka corporate subsidies/welfare.
These charts may be the reason that Congress fails to act aggressively against firearms purchases. Every purchase represents additional tax revenue. Just like every pack of cigarettes sold represents additional tax revenue. Cigarettes won't be outlawed because they want the revenue just like they want revenue from firearms sales.
From a fundamentals perspective, S&W sells to LEs/Mil, so "the future looks bright [/forehead-smack]" there, and conversely, they sell to private owners too.
It's early WWII all over again, where the US gun manufacturers sold to both sides (well... so did the French/Swiss, so it's not a singleton...), or African conflicts... or Cent. Am. conflicts... or Ex-Russian conflicts... or... I'm guessing you get my point.
What we need now is a new bullet technology that makes simple, cheap, effective home-fabrication easily within the realm of capabilities for Joe Redneck bringing 7.62 down to a couple pennies/per, something like two-stage emulsified tip sitting on a homebrew propellant... hmm... gets one thinking...
Ooops, look at the time, gotta run... [runs off to patent office].
Nage42.
The long climb to the top of the chart began post 9/11.
There was a climb into Y2K for long guns, but then it leveled off a bit when chaos failed to materialize.
Both types of guns clearly came into favor again beginnin in '02.
Of course it's impossible to say if citizens plan to fight terrorists with their weapons or their own government...because afte 9/11 it was hard to tell the difference.
quack-quack....the most glorious season of the year. If it flies it dies !
Drone season?
My Scoutmaster used to say he was like the little duck: web-footed and didn't give a damn.
Corzine Season!
It's the damned boar hogs.
Speaking of which, the current leadership is about as useless as tits on a boar hog.
Yea, someone is going to have to "duck" when this blows.
SWHC and Ruger are the new bubble stocks.
The AR15 is the new iPhone 5. ;-)
I find the features of the AR-15 never go out of style, and and I love to SMS with it, even if the range is a bit limited because I'm not in a tower.
Ha! nursery rhymes FTW!
Hickory Dickory Dock....(feel free to add your own flair here)
...Hic
"This is my rifle
this is my gun
this is for fighting
this is for fun"
boo-yah...
Remember that one well running around the squad bay at Edson Range with 80 other guys and our M14s, hahaha. Too much fun.
a modern day ft sumter would be instant death to the dollar. lets hope cool heads prevail
I don't own guns. I'm afraid my wife would blow my head off.
She has a bad temper.
Peace.
http://www.angrysinner.blogspot.kr/2012/12/yesterday-i-hiked-ten-miles-through_17.html
I thought I was the only one with that fear.
No one here cares if you went hiking yesterday. Stop pimping your blog on every thread. People might start to confuse you with Spiritoftruth...oh wait that seems to be what everyone does now. /Silverbug. Okay im done.
The way food prices keep on going up, hunting for many is not just a sport anymore, but a matter of survival. Got food???
It is far more probable that the smart are insulating against Holder-justuce, ignorance, and liberal fact-fabrication.
People know the current "rule of law" is a total fucking joke on the enforcement/executive side.
The intelligent also know that with modern government marvels such as Homeland Insecurity that it is every man for himself against said incorporated government enemies of the people.
or.....
the USA is an open air insane asylum !
Short, Bolsheviks.
Long, cavitation.
long 1:7 twist...
Long Cosmoline.
http://www.italiangungrease.net/
the triple "G" effect
Time to pick up some S&W stock?
BUY BUY BUY!
Congratulations, Toady, you just proved you are a fairly sensitive human. The thought occurred to you days after the tragic event. A sociopath would have had that idea the moment he saw breaking news of a mass shooting at an elementary school. It would have been his first thought. But even the sociopath is too late, for only miliseconds after the breaking news, all the sophisticated algos lit to life and began forming the groundwork for profit-taking, whereby sophisticated and proprietary investment instruments are installed into the system, to make money both on the way up and on the way down.
DO. NOT. PLAY. Go 'direct investment' into Smith & Wesson, if that's your 'stock' of choice.
If you can't hold it, you don't own it.
CAN I HAZ SW 686?
SW 686 has been around for a long time. I bought a new 686 this year and later bought
a 28 year old 686. Both 357s, but the old one has wood grip.
I am going to buy an AR15 to rid my property of mice.
Mine was for all specie of vermin. But I lost it.
Oops! Just found it again. It was hiding under my bed and seems to have asexually reproduced!
US > THEM
Don't live in fear
or dread.
I bought a 44 mag to shoot cans. AfricaCANS, MexiCANS and Porta RiCANS, and possibly some AmeriCANS.
Get a 22 conversion kit for you AR if you're hunting mice. At least you'll have some meat left after the kill and it's a lot more economical.
Best be trappin' those mice. Might make a good mouse stew.
Black Rifles work waaay better than Black Cats.
been checking the big online shops, out of stock beside every item i have or would have
Buy large quanty of ammo for all that you have. I would bet that might be the first thing they go for (idiots in Wash) You can always bater for it.
Buy reloading gear. It is cheap right now.
Buy a #10 can seamer for 800 bucks and seal lots of ammo with O2 absorbers and dessicators. It should still be perfect in 50 years provided the can doesnt rust through.
Never let a crises go to waste
Proud to say my son did that for me.
I hear there are a billion rounds of hollow points up for grabs. Any hot rumors of locations?
Gee, I wonder what changed?
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Baked, barbequed or fricasseed?
WARM
Colt - Six inch barrel, stainless
Foreign banksters still think they are going to steal American houses ?
~"NOVEMBER NSSF-ADJUSTED NICS CHECKS UP 38.5%... Powered by the largest single day ever for background checks on Black Friday, November 2012..."~
One can only conclude that Santa is bringing a lot of good little boys and girls firepower. (Bad little boys and girls get coal.) Whether this is a reflexive social commentary on the current administration is another matter, but the numbers do invite speculation along those lines.
If I'm sort of neutral, can I get both?
This is an insane number. I think the NICS checks have been around 15 million a year for the last 4 years. This is roughly about 50 million new gun sales over the past 4 years. Talking about expanding your market or shifting the demand curve.
People are not as afraid of crime as they are afraid of tyranny and/or SHTF.
Sick America.
Right. So get the fuck out!
Really. But Americans are like the "Second Coming" when you need us, right? So take your Anti-American B.S. and shove it.
I don't want to be a kill-joy (I carry daily myself) but what happense if you normalize the above charts for population growth? I don't have the data, but it seems like there might be a little more to it. After all, the intersting part is the %change YoY normalized for those entering the 'legal' age to purchase.
You told your kids Santa wasnt real didnt you?
Killjoy
Good question. I wondered about that myself initially. But, then I noticed the big climb to the top for both types of guns began immediately post 9/11.
The long leg up looks event driven...with a dip in sales due to market implosion post 2008...and then a healthy resumption of sales when people figured out the still had disposable income.
Prior to '02 you could porbably overlay that chart with the age distribution of the male population 18+ and get a pretty good correlation of age distribution moving through to sales.
Short butter!
there is a pretty significant correlation with the rise of the bankster economy.
Some cultures express themselves with religion, some with music and dance, some with literature, some even with respect and social positioning.
You, America, have chosen the gun. Justify it any way you want/need too, but I, for one, don't have too.
I dont have to justify anything either. Most certainly not to you
Just keep telling yourself that it is just another "random" act of violence committed by mentally unstable "individual". All the while you prepare to shoot your neighbour, your government, the terrorists, or whatever other creature that happens to cross your path at the wrong time. Load up cowboy their coming for you....
You have an affinity for boxcars?
Just keep telling yourself that old ladies should just curl up and die already.
Carrying a man-purse is such a drag.
from the article:
She said, "In a very mild voice he said, 'this is your day. You are too old to be alive anyway.'"
That guy must have been reading Krasting lately.
'this is your day. You are too old to be alive anyway.'"
Wonder if he helped draft ObamaCare?
No, but she'll ring up a tab!
Krasting is a graybeard himself. Not that young brown-haired man working the phone like his ZH photo implies.
I thought ol' Bruce just had it in for "old people." It worse than that.
He has it in for non-rich "old people"...everyone who might need Medicare...which is nearly everyone who can't "self-insure" after making millions from running a hedge fund as he did.
>>>She said, "In a very mild voice he said, 'this is your day. You are too old young and stupid o be alive anyway.'"<<<
There. Fixed it for 'ya.
Of course Bruce, with central planner "death to the old, kidneys for the young" misguided reasoning, missed proposing the one thing that might make patients less likely to pursue pointless end of life care and Medicare less expensive for everyone.
http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/19/13945441-in-the-end-makin...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120346411
My only regret is that she missed... good for her! I think I'll get my mom a case of shells for Christmas. She's getting pretty good with her shotgun.
Agreed.
I think the attacker was misidentified. It was Bruce Krasting beating her with the cane.
peeramidideologies, I find it interesting that I can't down arrow your comment but the up arrow appears operable. Am I being paranoid? Anyone else having that problem?
No. Just changed my down vote to an up and back.
Load up cowboy their coming for you....
I have no respect for anyone who can't use there, their, and they're correctly.
Their being lazy when there writing they're comments.
Is the act of arming oneself not an "expression of the self" in it's own right? We are "expressing" our discontent with the state of politics and intimating that the rebellious nature, upon which this nation was founded, is still alive and well. As an aside, fuck off.
You need a gun for that do you? Surely this will end well.
The principal in Sandy Hook didn't have a gun so you must be pleased with that outcome. In Pearl, Mississippi the principal did have a gun and the killer was apprehended which of course is a huge disappointment in your opinion.
Pearl High School shooting
The incident began on the morning of October 1, 1997 when Luke Woodham fatally stabbed and bludgeoned his mother, Mary Woodham, as she prepared for a morning jog. At his trial, Woodham claimed that he could not remember killing his mother.
Woodham drove his mother's car to Pearl High School. Wearing an orange jumpsuit and a trenchcoat,[1] he made no attempt to hide his rifle. When he entered the school, he fatally shot Lydia Kaye Dew and Christina Menefee, his former girlfriend. Pearl High School assistant band director, Jeff Cannon, was standing five feet away from Dew when she was fatally shot. Woodham went on to wound seven others before leaving, intending to drive off campus and conduct another shooting at the nearby Pearl Junior High School. However, assistant principal Joel Myrick had retrieved a .45 pistol from the glove compartment of his truck and subdued Woodham inside his mother's car. Then Myrick demanded "Why did you shoot my kids?" to which Woodham replied, "Life has wronged me, sir."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Woodham
Pleased?! You guys really don't get it do you? Hey, maybe if you arm the principle's in your schools THEN things will be alright... Get a clue man, more guns isn't the solution.
It is interesting to see someone with collectivist values and try to understand their psyche.
We come from different traditions. Many of us would advocate arming principals and teachers rather than disarming the populace.
Our tradition is one of inalienable individual rights. Liberty has a high price however.
It matters not to me what laws a government may impose. My rights are inalienable and do not come from the government. You want my weapons?
Come and take it.
Thank you for your response using open minded discussion. I agree that we do come from different traditions, and do not mean to assault your rights to freedom. I only mean to provoke some thought towards the direction of your path. I live in a country that, in my opinion, provides not only more civil liberties, but also a much safer environment to enjoy them. Do your guns really enable your rights? Or is it the community you live in that provides it? As an outsider looking in, I find it disturbing to see certain patterns in the behaviour and responses to such that are shown in your country. I wouldn't say that your situation is improving....
As for your guns you can keep them. I have a hunch your going to need them.
Peer
America has maintained its ability to fight. Is that so bad?
Read Lawrence Thorton's "Imagining Argentina". The military come for you one by one in the night. They kill and torture and then adopt your orphan children. That is something Americans do not want. So we stay strong.
If there are anti-liberty, anti-gun laws passed at this time I predict bad things. Americans sense the problems with the currency even if they don't understand what is happening. I do not think many will peacefully give up guns, especially not now. I am angry at the thought and I am a very peaceful person. I can only imagine what some are planning in anger at this moment. Congress must be very careful or they will precipitate actions they might not be able to control, drones or no drones, spying or not.
Our country was founded with gun rights for a reason. Those who swore to uphold those rights but try to diminish them will be remembered.
Isn't Canada a monarchy? How's that square with "more civil liberties"?
PS rights are inalienable from the individual, not granted to you by your community. (tough concept for hosers)
Just who I was waiting for - A Canadian. Well, fellow Canadian, things are not as they seem. Take a moment and find out what is really going on within our country.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/12/17/the-facts-on-agenda-21/
Globalization has plans for 1st world citizens and that includes Canadians. This is not the country you grew up in. But you'll never realize it until it is too late...as it was designed.
An additional gun in responsible hands was the solution in Pearl. Your assertion that it was not a solution indicates that you did not want Luke Woodham to be restrained from killing more kids. It was also the solution in Edinboro, Pennsylvania and in Happy Valley, Oregon. But you are unhappy with those live saving solutions. More people should have been killed in your clued-in opinion.
Ah, but more guns is the solution. Every single area that loosens its citizens rights to carry, has seen a drop in crime.
England, one of the most gun restrictive nations in Europe, has seen its crime rate escalate 89% since it banned guns.
Israel had its last school classroom shooting in 1974, when they had the same cry for gun control as we do now. They did the opposite and armed every single teacher, administrator and janitor. Not a classroom shooting since.
More guns is the answer. Can't do that here though as most of the teachers and Admin are lefties who would never want to look at a gun, let alone shoot a rampaging murderer.
An unarmed citizen, is an unarmed victim. Criminals aren't going to follow laws, that is why they are called criminals. Gun free zones are a calling card for the deranged knowing that no one is going to shoot back.
The recent Clackamas OR Mall shooting, a legally armed citizen drew down on the perp. When he saw people in the background, he didn't fire, afraid of hitting a bystander. The shooter saw him, took off for the stairwell and killed himself after entering, like the coward he was. Not a damn word in MSM except a Portland TV station. Imagine that, can't have the hive figuring out armed citizens save lives, can we now?
Alas, I'll never convince you being like most leftists, you don't work with facts. Leftists work with how something makes them feel, facts be damned. If it makes you feel bad, legislate against it.
I'm a conservative, I work with facts, not how something makes me feel.
You cannot stop evil no matter what laws and regulations are put up. Some people are evil and you'll never stop em. The only thing that will stop an evil shooter is another gun pointed at them.
Sorry to intrude on your rant, but you may want to contemplate the following chart:
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000
Please note that the greatest incidence of firearm deaths are in the deeply red, pro gun, America love it or leave it states.
It is comforting to the rest of us that these idiots are mostly killing one another (and themselves).
#1 District of Columbia with 31.2 per 100,000. Yeah, those damned rednecks in D.C. LOL
#6 Nevada = blue state
#8 New Mexico = blue state
Well, at least you chose the correct handle for yourself.
Well done, Creepy Lurker!!!!
Interesting the display of cognitive dissonance in reading a simple chart.
Washington DC is not a state, but a free fire zone for well armed, violent criminals, all of whom are decidedly pro-gun.
The states with populations and effective gun control laws like Massachusetts and New York have incidences far lower than the gun lovers.
There.. does that help?
Living up to your name!
How do you know that "violent criminals" are "decidedly pro-gun"? Are you citing a study?
Why did you leave Illinois out of your list? Cherry-picking of facts?
Hmmm. I think you should check the over/under of the risk of death by Assault by vs. discharge of a firearm here:
http://www.nsc.org/NSC%20Picture%20Library/News/web_graphics/Injury_Fact...
And it's high time we banned cars already!
This is not a dig, becasue I agree with your view. But I would hate to see someone read this and run with this one part as fact and get slammed in the process.
"Israel had its last school classroom shooting in 1974, when they had the same cry for gun control as we do now. They did the opposite and armed every single teacher, administrator and janitor. Not a classroom shooting since."
From what I can find not all teachers are armed, only some in the West bank are. The woman also serve two years in the military. Israel does have significant other defenses such as guards and gates for schools.
Despite all your hand waving, the evidence seems to indicate otherwise, doesn't it.
THANK YOU for posting this story....school admin must be able to protect our kids.
And a fine, time honored form of self expression it is, too.
Lock and load, bitchez!
I would argue that the US has adopted a culture of death, a culture of secular humanism, and a culture of moral relativism mashed together. Guns are merely an outflow of these ideologies as they are experienced and practiced. Your attitude and practice is perfectly acceptable until you are visited by those cultural hoodlums who desire to liberate you of your wealth by force. That it won't happen? The criminal mind is common and devious. Societal darwinism amongst a slowly evolving anarchy depends on people like you to exist. And yes, it exists and is growing quite nicely.
I can guarantee you that dying helpless will suck, but as long as you are OK with that, have at it. Matter of fact, unlock your doors at night to speed the plow. It's the not knowing that will get at you after awhile.
The good news is America will still save your complaining ass at the threshold of hell.
You're welcome (in advance).
I am tired of you global goobers piling on with this gun-hating crap. It is none of your damn business. Stay out of it.
The Second Amendment is the keystone of our Constitution. All of the other amendments depend upon it staying viable.
You who criticize really live in Soft Dictatorships, masquerading as Social Democracies. You have given up. We are descending to your level. But we have not yet given up, not with the means to avoid the final, total humiliation.
And in the meantime we can protect our homes from multiple assailants while you can not.
The Ben Franklin quote is: Those who turn their swords into plowshares generally end up plowing for those who did not.
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The Founding Fathers made specifically laws to protect the US citizens from tyrants. This is a gift because they know what can happen without a govt which protects the people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDivHkQ2GSg The history of the world - without guns.
The videos of the millions of people filling the streets in the EU and UK, even the US, is not provided for us. Media doesn't want to allow us to see what is taking place. High taxes, cut in income, no jobs, food prices going up, pensions sliced in half, no medical care and if there is medical care, there is no staff.
This isn't Kansas anymore. Media is owned and operated by the people who orchestrated the transfer of wealth. Are you going to believe what they tell you?
Great video...I sent it to everybody I know with a who gives a damn.
I recognize your right to be a victim, if you so choose.
Two Words for S&W: Sig Sauer.
Like so many nice things, from Switzerland.
I wish they exported some of their older innovations/implementations (democracy) too.
The Swiss are no fools. Everyone is in the reserves with their assault weapons stored at home. Ever wonder why Nazi Germany never invaded Switzerland?
indeed! how did a nation smack dab in the middle of WWI and WWII manage to remain neutral?
It is a good thing that Europeans do not have guns. Just think what the end of a soccer game would look like if they did. In Europe, they trample you to death when their team loses.