This flowchart is a Michigan school's *simple* solution to determining if someone open carrying a gun inside the school is a good guy or a bad guy.
We've got an even simpler solution: don't allow open carry in schools!
Source: every.tw
It shouldn't be up to kids to keep themselves safe from their parents' firearms.
Source: chron.com
President Barack Obama is spot-on here: with rights come responsibilities, and gun ownership is no exception.
It's time to break down the myth that people will kill themselves regardless of their access to a gun.
The motivations for suicide are hard to predict, but often it's only a matter of minutes between the first suicidal thought and the attempt itself.
Suicide is often a convergence of factors leading to a sudden, tragic event. In one study of people who survived a suicide attempt, almost half reported that the whole process, from the first suicidal thought to the final act, took 10 minutes or less ...
“What people experience before attempting suicide is a combination of panic, agitation and franticness,” he said. “A desire to escape from unbearable pain and feeling trapped.”
Sometimes, depression isn’t even in the picture. In one study, 60 percent of college students who said they were thinking about ways to kill themselves tested negative for depression.
“There are kids for whom it’s very difficult to predict suicide — there doesn’t seem to be that much that is wrong with them,” said Dr. David Brent, an adolescent psychiatrist who studies suicide at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Brent’s research showed that 40 percent of children younger than 16 who died by suicide did not have a clearly definable psychiatric disorder.
What they did have was a loaded gun in the home.
“If the kids are under 16, the availability of a gun is more important than psychiatric disorder,” Dr. Brent said. “They’re not suicidal one minute, then they are. Or they’re mad and they have a gun available.”
Source: The New York Times
The NRA has a lot to learn from our founding fathers when it comes to guns on university campuses.
Source: facebook.com
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Guess how many hours of training you need to get your manicurist license in New Hampshire? 300.
And to be allowed to carry concealed, loaded guns in public? If the gun lobby gets its way: ZERO.
State-by-state, the gun lobby is working to weaken and eventually eliminate minimum standards to carry concealed weapons in public. But we won’t let them erode public safety laws without a fight!
Well, you know God created man first ...Then he took the rib out of man to make woman. And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.
South Carolina Senator Thomas Corbin, while discussing a criminal domestic violence (CDV) bill that would make it harder for convicted domestic abusers to own guns -- which he opposes, naturally.
His comment was reportedly directed at S.C. Senator Katrina Shealy, the only woman in the state's 46-person senate, who had asked Corbin where he “got off” attacking women.
The Twitter response to this exchange was spot-on:
Source: fitsnews.com
When an elementary school drive-by shooting doesn't make national news...
you know our country has a huge problem with gun violence -- and the media's ability to cover it.
Source: wjcl.com
Wow. This South Carolina state senator, who strongly opposes a bill that would make it more difficult for convicted domestic abusers to arm themselves, also had this to say about women this week.
Source: fitsnews.com
This video says it all: Emergency calls reveal how disturbed many people are when they actually encounter open carry gun extremists.
Source: youtube.com
Shocking numbers from Yale School of Medicine: http://medicine.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6625
Source: medicine.yale.edu
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Miami police used mugshots of black men for target practice http://every.tw/15LeStF
Yale School of Medicine: "About 20 children per day in the United States are injured by firearms seriously enough to require hospitalization, and more than 6% of these children die from their injuries."
We're tired of the excuses and we're taking a stand! We will no longer accept shootings by children as tragic "accidents."
Source: everytown.org
Today we honor a hero who truly understood the power of action, and what was to be lost when people remained silent in the face of injustice.
Source: momsdemandaction.org
If we compared gun violence in U.S. cities to the deadliest nations in the world, via Citylab:
- If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
- Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
- Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
- Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
- Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
- Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
- Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
- Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
- Houston's rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador's (12.7).
- Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
- Phoenix's rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
- Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
- Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
- New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
- Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.
Source: citylab.com