Gun Talk Re: have you heard about...?

[sls.stormyrider]

Nicely put.

[VDB]

Nicely put.

[khalpin]

Nicely put.

[PIE-GUY]

...and the campus protests begin in fine form!!

http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/15/dildos-for-gun-control

Texas Students Arm Themselves With Dildos to Protest Guns on Campus

Students at the University of Texas-Austin plan to protest the permission of guns on campus by loading their backpacks with large dildos. The "Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (DILDO) Carry," scheduled for August 24, was organized in opposition to a 2015 state law saying gun-owners over 21-years-old with concealed-carry permits need not ditch their arms when they step into a campus building. It took effect August 1, 2016.

"The State of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms," states the Cocks Not Glocks website. But "it does have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence. You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class."

The group is referring to a Texas obscenity statute that says "no person or organization will distribute or display on the campus any writing or visual image, or engage in any public performance, that is obscene." And, indeed, Texas law specifies that obscene devives include "a dildo or artificial vagina." It's not clear, however, that any student has ever actually been arrested for carrying a dildo; Google turns up no such tale.

In any event, banning dildos on campus is silly. But so is preventing people from exercising other legally-protected freedoms—like carrying a gun—just because they're near some hallowed halls of learning. Whither the calls for cocks and glocks?

For their part, pro-open carry students are planning a counter-protest to next week's Cocks Not Glocks event. A Facebook invite for the counter-protest asks "liberty-minded students" to "bring pro-2A clothing, flags, signs, etc."

On August 4, Students for Concealed Carry sent a letter to the Texas attorney general asking for relief from the University of Texas (UT) Austin and UT-San Antonio's decision to allow individual professors to institute no-gun policies for their own offices.

[alcoholandcoffeebeans]

this and the Anti-bra movement are great.

[Buffalo Budd]

[sls.stormyrider]

from an article published today in the J of American Medical Association

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2582988

Prior to the stand your ground law, the mean monthly homicide rate in Florida was
0.49 deaths per 100 000 (mean monthly count, 81.93), and the rate of homicide by firearm
was 0.29 deaths per 100 000 (mean monthly count, 49.06). Both rates had an underlying
trend of 0.1% decrease per month. After accounting for underlying trends, these results
estimate that after the law took effect there was an abrupt and sustained increase in the
monthly homicide rate of 24.4%(relative risk [RR], 1.24; 95%CI, 1.16-1.33) and in the rate of
homicide by firearm of 31.6%(RR, 1.32; 95%CI, 1.21-1.44). No evidence of change was found
in the analyses of comparison states for either homicide (RR, 1.06; 95%CI, 0.98-1.13) or
homicide by firearm (RR, 1.08; 95%CI, 0.99-1.17). Furthermore, no changes were observed in
control outcomes such as suicide (RR, 0.99; 95%CI, 0.94-1.05) and suicide by firearm (RR,
0.98; 95%CI, 0.91-1.06) in Florida between 2005 and 2014.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The implementation of Florida's stand your ground
self-defense law was associated with a significant increase in homicides and homicides by
firearm but no change in rates of suicide or suicide by firearm.

[gah]

Shooting at GOP basbeall practice in Alexandria this morning....think that'll get things moving? not likely. Guns save lives!

[rowjimmy]

I have friends who live in this neighborhood.
Scary stuff.

Shooting people is shitty.

[mattstick]

Meanwhile...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-weapon-of-mass-distraction/2017/06/13/a10f651e-506f-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

Monday was the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead. Saturday will be the second anniversary of the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., where nine were murdered at Bible study.

In between these two somber remembrances, House Republicans will be commemorating the occasion in their own way: They will begin work relaxing restrictions on firearm silencers — thereby making it easier for shooters to shoot without being noticed.

Classy.

To this injury, the legislators add insult with the bill's name: a provision of the "Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act" called the "Hearing Protection Act" — as if it were subsidizing earplugs. That's like calling legislation that expands the availability of machine guns the "Carpal Tunnel Protection Act" because it spares would-be shooters the repetitive motion of trigger pulling.

[rowjimmy]

The hearing on silencers has been canceled for now.

[mattstick]

Yeah, probably better to hold that on one of the days of the week when there isn't a high profile shooting.

[gah]

Meanwhile...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-weapon-of-mass-distraction/2017/06/13/a10f651e-506f-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

Monday was the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead. Saturday will be the second anniversary of the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., where nine were murdered at Bible study.

In between these two somber remembrances, House Republicans will be commemorating the occasion in their own way: They will begin work relaxing restrictions on firearm silencers — thereby making it easier for shooters to shoot without being noticed.

Classy.

To this injury, the legislators add insult with the bill's name: a provision of the "Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act" called the "Hearing Protection Act" — as if it were subsidizing earplugs. That's like calling legislation that expands the availability of machine guns the "Carpal Tunnel Protection Act" because it spares would-be shooters the repetitive motion of trigger pulling.

Hilarious. I love the WaPo's aggressive nature lately.

But seriously, guns save lives.

[sls.stormyrider]

well, if all the Congressmen were armed and shot back at this guy, it wouldn't have happened, right?
:roll:

[mbw]

Today I hate bad aim.  Oh wait, wrong thread.