Last week our newspaper ran an article that on average, 87 people are killed EACH DAY by guns.

Some guy 60 years old was shot here in Brooklyn for no reason by three high kids in a bodega. I hope they lose their licences to carry

That figure is likely to go down because there isn't a round of ammo available anywhere anymore.

Yeah on the lake thats it!

those damn paranoid ccw holders are at it again, this nutjob actually thought that it would be a good idea to stop a vicious beating in progress. when are people gonna learn to just mind their own business?

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/m...-197766101.html

..... Had Mr. Holten lived in one of a handful of states, the protection order would have forced him to relinquish his firearms. But that is not the case in Washington and most of the country, in large part because of the influence of the National Rifle Association and its allies.

Advocates for domestic violence victims have long called for stricter laws governing firearms and protective orders. Their argument is rooted in a grim statistic: when women die at the hand of an intimate partner, that hand is more often than not holding a gun.

In these most volatile of human dramas, they contend, the right to bear arms must give ground to the need to protect a woman’s life.

In statehouses across the country, though, the N.R.A. and other gun-rights groups have beaten back legislation mandating the surrender of firearms in domestic violence situations. They argue that gun ownership, as a fundamental constitutional right, should not be stripped away for anything less serious than a felony conviction ...

That figure is likely to go down because there isn't a round of ammo available anywhere anymore.

AWB is dead

As predicted, federal AWB is DOA and magazine capacity limits look unlikely.

Now we need to override NY and it's backdoor laws.

Just like the soda size ban set by bloomberg, these are just wrong. Como really stuck it to the people of New York in the cover of night like the bully he is.

He could end up in Hilary's cabinet in 2016.

Or Christie's .

FZ why were the gun laws in NY "backdoor" laws? Did they not go through the state legislature? Did Cuomo do something backhanded?

Or Christie's .

No wonder people think we have reached the end or near end of America as we once knew it.

Which "people" "think" this? You sound like Trump. Be specific. And while you are at it "America as we once knew it" WHEN? During Slavery? Before Women Could Vote? Before Social Security? After the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts? Before Medicare? After Roe v. Wade? Or is it since we have had a black president? I bet that sticks in your craw.

The Reagan years? Surely you jest. Things went well cause he spent like a drinken sailor, and didn't raise taxes. He left that to Bush who got summarily thrown out of office. I wll say Reagan was one great speaker and one great motivator (and an actor btw). But here's a guy who got to office by attacking phony "welfare queens" and who began his campaign in Missippi at the site of the murder of civil rights workers. Since you, fs are color blind, you certainly took umbrage at that.

And another thing. In my life I have rarely heard an older person say things were "better" back in the day. It is not surprising people say it now. I will probably do the same when I am 80.

The AWB and magazine issues are dead for now, and the focus will be on background checks. What's probably behind this is that Harry Reid has about 7 or 8 Senators who are Dems from red states up for re-election in 2014. He wants to hold the Senate, and the Dems want to take the house. If this happens I think these items will be resurrected.

That said, Reid is a pitiful majority leader.

Yes he is. I agree with you. Obama and the Dems will not let this die. You see what I mean it's all about them (both sides) getting re-elected.

Or Christie's .

The Reagan years? Surely you jest. Things went well cause he spent like a drinken sailor, and didn't raise taxes. He left that to Bush who got summarily thrown out of office. I wll say Reagan was one great speaker and one great motivator (and an actor btw). But here's a guy who got to office by attacking phony "welfare queens" and who began his campaign in Missippi at the site of the murder of civil rights workers.

And another thing. In my life I have rarely heard an older person say things were "better" back in the day. It is not surprising people say it now. I will probably do the same when I am 80.

I highly doubt Chris runs in 2016, but I will be sure to ask him later this month and report back to you.

I won't vote for Hillary OR Christie, so I really don't care. But he's one guy the Dems should fear. But like I say, I don't even like him. He's too much of a blowhard, Hillary is too old, entitled and self important.

I hope 2016 is the year an Indie finally breaks through. But it won't happen.