Coalition Encourages “Swatting” Against Open-Carry Holders

The Roanoke Times newspaper, in an editorial after the murders titled “What Would Have Prevented This?” noted how quickly Clinton and McAuliffe were to bring up gun control, writing that while, in their opinion McAuliffe was right to say it’s appropriate to ask questions, “Perhaps not on the day of such a horrific killing; give us at least some grace period to grieve”.

As Texas and other states relax rules about open-carrying firearms, gun control advocates have now resorted to so-called “swatting” – or calling police with false reports about armed gunmen. Edwards’ district additionally incorporates the Virginia Tech campus, so he’s absolutely conscious of how straightforward it’s for dangerously mentally unwell people to accumulate weapons within the commonwealth of Virginia. In a radio interview after the shooting, Sen. It’s clear they are part of growing national sentiment to do something about gun violence, and Mr. Parker is right to focus public attention on the actions of individual elected officials who are responsible for weak gun laws.

The left-wing magazine Mother Jones has compiled a database of all the shootings that have killed four people or more, going back to 1982. We can’t allow the epidemic of gun violence and deaths to continue.

Last year, President Obama suggested the USA follow Australia’s example by adopting a strict gun ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons. The policy was first enacted in California after the tragic mass shooting in Isla Vista past year. Meanwhile, by some counts, America has had a mass shooting approximately every two weeks, with 2015 being the most deadly year yet. But nobody is giving up their guns under the false presumption that public disarmament is going to discourage predatory criminals.

The US accounted for more mass shootings than the 10 other countries combined.

CSGV’s Executive Director Joshua Horwitz and Director of Communications Ladd Everitt routinely refer to gun owners as “insurrectionists”, a term that they use in a manner that normal people would use to describe terrorists. Yet the vast majority do not do so. Teach them respect for themselves, their bodies, other’s property and other’s lives. Anything less will be an ineffective, feel-good measure.

The toll of victims of gun violence increases weekly. A nationally representative survey with 1,797 respondents, conducted in 2012 and reported in a 2013 paper published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, set out to investigate precisely this issue.

“Whatever it takes” – such fearless and profound words from a man enduring a kind of pain and anguish I can not even imagine. These would have to be rewritten if persons with serious mental illness are to be tagged in publicly available databases. In fact, the anti-gun folks like Lamb have been awfully quiet when it comes to specific policies that would have stopped the killer of the WBDJ journalists from acquiring a firearm.

We listen to fools who in the face of all statistics claim that more guns make us safer. According to Kim Jones, ‘Getting this law in place is one way to protect the public from unsafe people’.

Vermont has some of the loosest gun laws in America.

The firm did find support for those like Donald Trump who believe that the shooting spurt is due to mental illness, not guns.

Numerous comparisons with other countries rely on sketchy data about the prevalence of guns. Australia doesn’t have as powerful of a gun lobby as the United States does with the National Rifle Association and doesn’t have a Bill of Rights protecting guns, so the reforms were undoubtedly passed more easily than they would be here. “The why is a mental health issue”, one woman said.

The NRA and Noir have been criticized in the wake of an August 30 video posted by Noir where he told the parents of Parker and Ward that “sometimes in a fight we can become so emotional everyone and thing starts looking like the enemy, even if they’re there to help us”.

In recent times we’ve got witnessed comparable tragedies unfold on TV: the capturing of a congresswoman in Arizona, the bloodbath of schoolchildren in Connecticut and of churchgoers in South Carolina.