The Coming Gun Crisis: “From My Cold Dead Hands”
As many are aware, times are tough not only in the states, but worldwide. What accompanies times of uncertainty and turmoil is usually not pretty and not sane. There are many things that can cause a person to snap, whether it’s a history of psychiatric problems, the unknown, the loss of a loved one, a break-up/divorce, the loss of a job, the loss of tons of money in the market, etc.
Well, with everything that is occuring in and around us, there has been an increase in mass murders, homicides and suicides. Yes, guns were involved in many of these cases, but not all. Guns, also are not the cause of a person snapping or being able to cause harm to people. Guns can also save lives and they save more lives per year than they kill. Read more
Increase in Mass Killings: Economy to Blame
There is a lot of blame going around these days as to who is or should be held responsible for the increase in mass killings and murders. First and foremost, the blame should be placed squarely on the shoulders of those who commit these crimes. However, I think a more reasonable and honest summation of why there is an increase is due to the turbulence of the economy.
Almost all of the recent mass killings had one thing in common – these people had been down on their luck and had lost their jobs. Many also had a history of mental problems, whether depressed, suicidal etc.
I think the anguish and anxiety that people are feeling with today’s market, unemployment rate and watching their 401(k)s diminish and evaporate before their very eyes is a cause of what we are seeing. The Washington Post reports:
In Binghamton, N.Y., a Vietnamese immigrant upset about losing his job burst into an immigration center and killed 13 people before killing himself. In Pittsburgh, police said a gun enthusiast recently discharged from the Marine Corps opened fire and killed three police officers. And in Graham, Wash., investigators said a man whose wife was leaving him shot and killed five of his children in their mobile home before taking his own life.
The carnage that occurred during less than 48 hours last week capped a recent string of unusually brazen mass killings, which crime experts say have touched more people and occurred in more public settings than in any time in recent memory. Comparative statistics are difficult to come by, but during the past month alone, at least eight mass homicides in this country have claimed the lives of 57 people. Just yesterday, four people were discovered shot to death in a modest wood-frame home in a remote Alabama town.
The factor underlying the violence, some experts think, is the dismal state of the nation’s economy. Criminologists theorize that the epidemic of layoffs, the meltdown of storied American corporations and the uncertainty of recovery have stoked fear, anxiety and desperation across society and unnerved its most vulnerable and dangerous.
Experts agree that most mass murderers share one trait: a traumatic event such as a layoff, divorce or separation that sets off an internal rage and a desire for revenge.
Of course an article from the Washington Post had to get at least one pot-shot in there about guns…
“The common denominator in all these is that they’re all using a gun,” Helmke said of the recent killings. “You don’t see police officers in Pittsburgh being killed by people throwing knives at them. . . . We’ve always had violence, but in the old days you couldn’t take out so many people so quickly. Now we make it very easy to do that.”
Two more killings have occurred recently – at a Korean Christian Retreat and a mother killing her son in Florida at a shooting range.
Developing…3 Officers Shot Dead in Pittsburgh, PA
Prayers for the police officers, their family and friends and the citizens of Pittsburgh, PA.
A 23 yr. old male, who was reportedly dishonorably discharged from the marines, while in boot-camp, and also expelled from North Catholic HS killed 3 cops and injured 2 others after police responded to a domestic disturbance call. He was apparently out drinking the night before and this may have lead to the initial phone call when policed busted into his home. We recently learned that he was also laid off from his job – which I believe to be one of the biggest reasons we will see violent and disturbing behavior in the coming months or at least until the economic situations stabilizes and subsides.
Here is whatt came over the wires:
Confirmed by local pgh media, three Pittsburgh police officers killed.
Per Andy Shehan, kdka, two officers killed in house; then perp went to second story window. Cars on street ‘riddled with bullets.’ Fire fight to try and re-enter Poplawski house to retrieve injured officers.
Per Andy Shehan,
The set up a perimeter around the house; city pd; city swat; Allegheny county sheriff; pa state police; all commanded to fire on second story at once so officers could get into house to get officers; rescue of officers under a hail of gunfire. One officer already dead when they got to him; huge gun battle to get injured officers out.
Jon Burnett, kd weather man ‘knows’ guns, he is in on the interview w/Shehan (at the scene). Poplawski’s range was approximately three football fields with guns he had…officers did not stand a chance; Poplawski was out drinking the night before…conjection on Shehan’s part, saying that that is what may have caused the initial domestic fight in house. And then it escalated. Two units responded to initial ‘domestic’ situation.
Per Chief Harper, Officers had responded to that address at least twice before. They are investigating the records and the calls.
Story still developing… And there have been reports that this was politically motivated but I will wait until further reports are made and after the media projects and spins this the way they want and the true facts and details begin to rise to the surface.
I’m sure this will turn into more anti-gun legislation measures 3…2…1…
New York: 6 Anti-Gun Bills to be Heard Next Week!
New York: Six Anti-Gun Bills to be Heard Next Week!
Friday, April 03, 2009
Please Contact Your State Legislators Today!
Next week the Assembly Codes Committee will take up various anti-gun bills in an attempt to further their divisive agenda. The following anti-gun bills have been placed on the agenda for Monday, April 6:
Assembly Bill 1093, sponsored by Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-88), would impose new requirements on firearm retailers and require that they obtain insurance to cover criminal acts committed after the legal sale of a firearm. The companion bill to AB 1093, is Senate Bill 1715, sponsored by State Senator Eric Schneiderman (D-31).
Assembly Bill 1326, sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-4), would mandate handguns be equipped with technology which would prevent them from being operated by children.
Assembly Bill 2881, sponsored by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would ban the possession and use of “frangible” ammunition. The companion bill for AB 2881 is Senate Bill 2379, sponsored by State Senator Frank Padavan (R-11).
Assembly Bill 2882, sponsored by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135) would provide for the submission of expended projectiles and shell casings and guns to the state police pistol and revolver ballistic identification electronic databank
Assembly Bill 5844, sponsored by State Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-20), would enact the “children’s weapon accident prevention act” and creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely and negligent storage. The companion bill for AB 5844 is Senate Bill 3098, sponsored by State Senator Eric Schneiderman (D-31).
The following anti-gun bill is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Tourism Committee on Tuesday, April 7:
Assembly Bill 7183, sponsored by State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-4), prohibits the possession of concealed firearms in any park, campground or other recreation area.
Please call your lawmakers TODAY and urge them to oppose all of the above listed bills. State Assembly Members can be reached by phone at (518) 455-4100. To find your Assembly Member, click here. Your State Senator can be contacted through the Senate switchboard at (518) 455-2800. To find your State Senator, please click here
What timing too! Right after the horrific shootout/massacre in Binghamton, New York yesterday. The irony is that Binghamton was a gun-free zone in New York already… Never waste a crisis… Let’s not blame this on the crazy individual, but on the guns now… Ridiculous!
Why is it that liberals want to take guns away from those who use them responsibly, yet criminals still manage to obtain the guns in those gun-free zones, which tend to have high crime rates as well? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
“You can’t control an armed populace!” Which brings me to my videos of England:
(I think I will post these videos every time anti-gun legislation is on the table to keep reminding the liberals) – it’s a long one so beware!
More Idiotic Solutions to Save Money (Democratic Bastion, D.C. to Release Inmates)
Washington, D.C. is a bastion of liberalism and it is one of the most criminally active and unsafe areas in the nation. However, the city’s mayor would like to release up to 80% of the city’s inmate to save some money.
I think the obvious question would be how much money would technically be saved if there were more murders, robberies, assaults, etc.? I’m glad that liberals live in la-la land but I prefer to be realistic. I think this would actually cause a loss of money due to the criminal activity that can and will result from releasing this many inmates that were obviously put behind bars for good reason.
Washington, D.C. also has some of the strictest gun laws and last time I checked, regular law abiding citizens could not get guns, but criminals somehow still have them at their fingertips. Good job liberals! I say release the inmates and let them room with Mayor Fenty and any other politician or bureaucrat that agrees with this insanity.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty wants to help balance the District’s recession-squeezed budget by allowing as many as 80 percent of the city’s inmates to qualify for early release, borrowing a tactic that has stirred controversy elsewhere in the nation.
The city hopes to save $4.4 million in fiscal 2010 under the plan, which would reduce the prison population by 2 percent from its current daily average of 3,000 inmates.
Current law permits sentenced inmates to earn up to five days off their sentences each month by completing specified academic and vocational programs. The new proposal would extend the program to pretrial inmates and allow them to earn time off simply by participating in the programs.
Officials said about 2,400 inmates would be eligible to receive good-time credits under the proposal. If each eligible inmate earned an average of five days of good time, it would reduce the average inmate population by about 65 people.
The plan has drawn at least initial concern from a key D.C. Council member, who stressed the importance of ensuring it would not be detrimental to public safety if enacted.
Please tell that logical Council member to stop making so much sense and pipe down… that just gets in the way of liberal policies.
