So, what, you're hoping for a retraction?Your false statement, which I corrected, was: Originally Posted by AMDG
In fact, more people DIE in freak accidents in the bathtub than in firearm deaths.
That is absolutely a false statement. You respond to your gross error being corrected by moving goalposts and referencing only firearms accidents instead of firearms deaths. You even elect to quote a man who is so dishonest and partisan that he resorts to comparing death rates per children by number of pools vs number of guns instead of sheer numbers. He is lying with statistics.
Let's be pro-life! I invite you to embrace the Truths given to us by Christ's Holy Church and join Her in calling for reasonable, life saving legislation including registration, safe storage laws, and background checks on private sales.
snipped to portion addressed. Longer post above.
When you consider that the stamp that had to be gotten to even obtain an automatic (those are the guns that spray bullets--a semi-automatic cannot) was $200 back then (in today's money it would be around $3000) PLUS the firearm would need to be registered with the ATF (and that means that it CAN'T be transported out of the state--even to show a family member who lives in the next state over)
PLUS it takes at least five months to a year to get one of the stamps because of all the paperwork of the ATF checks (the application also has to be signed-off by the sheriff if I remember), not to mention that the automatics themselves are so expensive that only the rich can afford, that pretty much makes the automatic firearms cost prohibitive for the average citizen.
Criminals, however, can get anything their little black hearts desire.
(They will even MAKE firearms from scratch--can't use the semi-automatics to make automatics, if that is what they want, the two are too different.)
Criminals don't obey laws (that's why they are known as "criminals"). People who skirt the laws don't care how much other's rights are infringed upon or about the lives of others. It just makes the criminal's lives easier to disarm everyone else. (Haven't you noticed that they purposely kill innocents in "gun free" zones where folks can't protect themselves?)
So, what, you're hoping for a retraction?
The monthly starting salary in your area is less than the federal minimum wage for a 40 hour a week job?
When the monthly starting salary (in this area) is like $850 (and from that take taxes, unemployment insurance, and what-not) that's like four months that a person has to live on air to scrape up enough money for that ATF stamp alone (and where is the money for the firearm?) Okay next county over starting salaries are like $1000, so there's a little more wiggle-room, but still that's about three months living without food, water, shelter for something that isn't easily gotten. BTW $200 in the '30s during the Great Depression WAS a lot of money, considering that folks would often try to even sell pencils on street corners to be able to afford some watered-down milk for their hungry children. Riiight. The cost didn't price automatics out of the realm of ownership by the regular citizens.
As far as taking an ATF registered weapon (automatics, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns) out of the state for a national show, you should be honest enough to let your crowd of fans know that it requires about six-month in advance PERMISSION from the ATF, that IS if you happen to be law abiding.
If not, nothing will keep you from getting anything and taking it anywhere--no laws, no restrictions, no regulations. There are laws on the books, law enforcement just needs to enforce them--not make more to ignore.
And yes, firearms can be made from scratch. It's not just the gun manufacturers that can do this. Guns can even be made in the modern 3-D copiers out of plastic! And the guy who did it also showed how the firearm fired--it did!
And about those "gun free" zones. Well let's see, schools are gun-free zones. What happened in Connecticut? Did the boy who gunned down those unprotected children with weapons he STOLE pay attention to the sign that stated that? How about the guy in Aurora movie theater. He went out of his way to SPECIFICALLY chose a gun-free theater to do his killing. The Church killing that was only stopped because one person was carrying--the rest of the congregation were "sitting ducks". How about that restaurant in Lubbock, Texas (years back) which was also gun-free. Twenty some odd people shot and killed, including one woman's mother and father who had just celebrated their 43rd anniversary. Their daughter said that she wished she had had her firearm with her, that she would rather be sitting in jail with her parents alive than to have them both dead. What about the recent restaurants that chose to be gun-free? Robbed three times in a few days from trumpeting the news that they were going to go unprotected. The women in Colorado who had been raped testifying that if it wouldn't have happened if they had been allowed to protect themselves on campus? After all, a gun is a great equalizer. With a gun a 80 year old granny (or even a young girl) can "stand her ground" against a strong young criminal who simply wants to hurt her.
. I don't believe I've said a factually untrue thing in this conversation. If I have I will be happy to retract and correct it, because that is what good, honorable, honest people do.Perhaps it is YOU who needs to stop spreading false information.
The Federal is for Federal jobs.
The Federal is for Federal jobs. With employment, a salary is offered and the person decides if he wants to take it or not. This county has a less expensive cost of living--its affordable (Thank God).
The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of not less than $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. Overtime pay at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay is required after 40 hours of work in a workweek.
The monthly starting salary in your area is less than the federal minimum wage for a 40 hour a week job?
Yep. Criminals and terrorists get guns whether legal or not, so why have gun laws at all?
Besides that any honest thinking person realizes that a gun is simply a tool. They cannot act by themselves. It's the PEOPLE that use these tools for ways they were not intended. Many tools can be used to kill. What shall we ban next? Cars? Knives? (Spoons--since they can be sharpened into knives?) All cutting objects? Poisons--even pest control ones? (Must ban all medicines too because those are poison.) Hammers? Any blunt object? Fertilizer? (That's how the Oklahoma City bomber made his bombs.) All chemicals? (I know that I must be careful even in cleaning house because a chemical reaction can accidentally be made if I don't watch what I'm doing.) Swimming pools and bathtubs? (Since more deaths are caused by that?) Airplanes? (Hey! They have been used to kill.) Don't forget to ban the 3-D copiers (firearms already HAVE been made that way.) And we can go on and on.
Last year there were 32,000 gun related deaths in the US. Do any of those other things come close to that number? Sure, we CAN list everything that can kill a person, such as a popcorn kernel caught in the throat, but how about we show actual cold numbers instead?
You can care about both, they aren't exclusive. But when someone's listing bathtubs along with guns in terms of killing power, they are off the rails. Pretty much everybody uses the bathtub (or shower) on an almost daily basis and the percentage of people who die because of it is well, well under %.01.That yearly total is a greater number than those killed throughout the Gulf War so why should we care about the soldiers?