Wonderful Bob Casey

Started by raptor5618, February 12, 2013, 01:25:05 PM

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When I was looking at a link for Stag Arms I used their link to send a letter out to all my representatives at the state and federal letter.   Bob Casey wrote back and of course proclaimed his strong support for the 2nd amendment but would vote for the gun ban. I read his arguments which of course were wrong minded and even chuckled when he kind of added that it was in committee trying to say that it was not his fault or his responsibility if it comes to a vote.  I guess also implying that they would come up with the best solution to end gun violence.  At least he did not say if we can save one life BS. 

So I spent a little time looking at crime data and now I am totally steaming.  I downloaded the most recent murder data from the FBI to a spreadsheet.  Of course rifles only were used in 3.21% of the  murders.  The number probably is higher because the type of firearm was unknown in 26.7% of the cases.  But even if all the unknowns were rifles it still is significantly less than handguns.  And of course we know that even if you used .223 as a line item it would be incredibly small percent. 

Then on to the other sections. In all 50 states a knife was the weapon used at a higher rate than rifles.   In fact, almost 5.25 knife or cutting instrument murders per every rifle murder.  Yet I do not hear the outcry about banning knives.  Or feet or hands.  Yep for every murder with a rifle 2.25 people are killed directly by another human being using hands, feet or fists. 

I looked for statistics on vehicular homicide but in the time I had I could not find a number.  Even the MAD site seemed to avoid referencing any number. 

Then I watched a short clip done by a gun show on Stag Arms.  Apparently this company who makes only the type of gun that they want to ban, is expanding rapidly and recently bought a 50K sqft building up in Mass.  I think he said that they now employ 500 people but as I watched this video from 2010 I wondered how big they have grown to now.  I imagine the ban would pretty much be the end of them, although I guess they would make guns that elude the ban and have a configuration so that you could configure it like a banned gun if they get so crazy as to ban these guns.  Quite a few of these manufacturers are US based and I would think that many are the same as Stag arms in that they manufacture everything at their facility.  The hell with jobs I guess.

Lastly, two things keep spinning in my head making me more angry with each passing day.  The first is the statement by Ben Franklin about how we get neither if we give up freedom for security.  The actual quote is listed on at least one poster on this site.  The second is my own thought that they are so focused on taking away a god given right to save one person and would not even think about taking a way a privilege (driving and automobile) to satisfy their claim about saving just one life would be worth it.   I guess there is three.  That saving one life is worth it and they have to try BS.  If saving a single life is a criteria that is used to ban something, well I am not sure what would not be banned. And what do you do about something like water that you can drown in, yet you need to drink water and it is used to keep things clean so you need more than just a bottle of it.   
"An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity."