How the NRA Keeps Killer Guns on the Market
"The Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol, which retails for about $300, is one of the
cheapest American-made guns available on the civilian market. In used
condition, these are junk guns, Saturday night specials. But last week,
George Zimmerman listed his in an online auction with a starting bid of
$5,000. This was the gun he used in 2012 to shoot and kill Trayvon
Martin, an unarmed teenager.
These macabre sales actually happen all the time in the United
States. Most of the 116,000 Americans who are shot each year (32,000
fatally) receive barely a mention in local news—the perpetrators aren’t
notorious, and their guns don’t become collector’s items. But neither
are they removed from the market. In fact, thousands of Americans buy
used guns every year—legally—with no idea those weapons were used to
take someone’s life."
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Opinion You say gun control doesn't work? Fine. Let's ban guns altogether.
In a post Tuesday,
I listed the mass shootings since January 2013 in which at least three
people were killed. It’s an agonizingly, depressingly long list, and I
cited it as the prime reason we need meaningful gun control. The post
received the usual blowback from gun owners, most of whom skipped over
the scope of gun deaths in this country to look more myopically at last
week’s tragic events at Isla Vista (which I mentioned only in passing, seeing this problem as much broader than the most recent headlines).
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The Times Has Finally (Quietly) Outed an NRA-Funded “Independent” Scholar
Last Friday The New York Times finally addressed a conflict
of interest that it had been ignoring for years. Although, among the
powerful institutions that have long done so, the Times is
hardly alone. The matter helps illustrate how the gun lobby has managed
to shape the nation’s gun debate without showing its hand. The news
comes to light one day before the start of the National Rifle
Association’s annual convention in Indianapolis.
David Kopel is the Research Director and Second Amendment Project Director of the Colorado-based nonprofit Independence Institute, which describes itself as a “free-market think tank.” He is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Washington-based Cato Institute, and an adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at Denver University. Kopel is also the author of 15 books and 90 scholarly articles many having to do with the Second Amendment and gun policies.
Kopel is widely known as one of the nation’s leading legal scholars on gun issues, writing from a pro-gun rights perspective. He testified in the Senate last year as an apparent independent expert in the nationally televised hearings held in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. For even longer, he has regularly written opinion pieces for newspapers like The Wall Street Journal while being similarly identified as an independent scholar.
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David Kopel is the Research Director and Second Amendment Project Director of the Colorado-based nonprofit Independence Institute, which describes itself as a “free-market think tank.” He is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Washington-based Cato Institute, and an adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at Denver University. Kopel is also the author of 15 books and 90 scholarly articles many having to do with the Second Amendment and gun policies.
Kopel is widely known as one of the nation’s leading legal scholars on gun issues, writing from a pro-gun rights perspective. He testified in the Senate last year as an apparent independent expert in the nationally televised hearings held in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. For even longer, he has regularly written opinion pieces for newspapers like The Wall Street Journal while being similarly identified as an independent scholar.
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Schoolchildren May Soon Wear Bulletproof Military-Style Vests
Post-Newtown, sales for bulletproof backpacks
and whiteboards have soared as parents and school districts seek to
take children’s safety into their own hands. The reaction is along the
lines of what the National Rifle Association has promoted for months:
that armed guards, and not gun regulation, is the answer to school
shootings. Congress responded to parents’ concern by caving to pressure
from the NRA and blocking the only serious federal attempt to pass gun
safety legislation earlier this month. But if armed educators, bulletproof school supplies, and metal protectors weren’t enough, a company that offers ballistic safety equipment is marketing military-style vests for schoolchildren:
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A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip
SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that
fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School
felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those
children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember
their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that
they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students
heard if the gunman found them.
On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear
and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for
criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of
deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those
in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many
communities to count.
This is from a NYTimes op-ed. Tom
New Research Confirms Gun Rampages Are Rising—and Armed Civilians Don't Stop Them
By the time the nation confronted the unthinkable school massacre in Connecticut last December, Mother Jones' groundbreaking investigation of mass shootings,
launched the prior summer, had shown that mass gun violence in America
was on the rise. The trend appeared to be no coincidence in light of the proliferation of guns and looser gun laws nationwide. One leading criminologist took issue with our criteria,
arguing that mass shootings had not become more common. But now,
research from an expert on criminal justice at Texas State University
further shows that gun rampages in the United States have escalated.The research, to be published in a book in July, further confirms that:
- Public shooting rampages have spiked in particular over the last few years
- Many of the attackers were heavily armed
- None of the shootings was stopped by an ordinary citizen using a gun
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At Least 4 People Were Accidentally Shot By Toddlers Since Last Weekend
All week, official Washington is fixated on the question of whether the 14 senators who’ve promised to filibuster any gun safety legislation
will succeed in their efforts to maintain the status quo. Meanwhile,
gun violence continues unabated in the rest of the nation. In a
particularly tragic chapter in our nation’s struggle with such violence,
at least four people — including two children — were seriously injured
or killed since last weekend in accidental shootings where toddlers
obtained loaded weapons:
- A Tennessee woman was shot in the stomach by her 2-year-old child on Sunday. Rekia Kid was sleeping with the toddler and her three-week-old baby when the toddler discovered a Glock 9 mm stored underneath her pillow and discharged the weapon. Kid managed to get out of the house and crawl to a neighbor’s porch where she was found by the neighbor, who told local news “[s]he just kept screaming that she didn’t think she was going to make it, she didn’t think she was going to make it and to please please take care of my children.”
Georgia Town Passes Mandatory Gun Bill
Late Monday, Nelson, Georgia passed a law called the “Family
Protection Ordinance” that requires every adult in the 1,300-person town
to own a gun “for purposes of emergency management and general safety of the city.”
The town’s Police Chief, Heath Mitchell, told the AP that he hopes “having a gun would help residents take their protection into their own hands,” since the town has an understaffed police department and slow response time to 911 calls.
One councilman even used the National Rifle Association’s call for arming all Americans to defend the law, saying “I really felt like this ordinance was a security sign for our city. Basically it was a deterrent ordinance to tell potential criminals they might want to go on down the road a little bit.” Overall, the measure signals that government officials believe residents, not police departments, should be responsible for their own protection and rejects state and federal governments’ efforts to reduce gun violence through increased regulation of firearms.
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The town’s Police Chief, Heath Mitchell, told the AP that he hopes “having a gun would help residents take their protection into their own hands,” since the town has an understaffed police department and slow response time to 911 calls.
One councilman even used the National Rifle Association’s call for arming all Americans to defend the law, saying “I really felt like this ordinance was a security sign for our city. Basically it was a deterrent ordinance to tell potential criminals they might want to go on down the road a little bit.” Overall, the measure signals that government officials believe residents, not police departments, should be responsible for their own protection and rejects state and federal governments’ efforts to reduce gun violence through increased regulation of firearms.
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STUDY: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence
The National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies in Congress frequently claim that gun violence is highest in places with the toughest crime laws. But a new study
from the Center for American Progress (CAP) suggests something closer
to the opposite is true — the states with laxer gun laws tend to be the
ones contributing the highest shares of national gun deaths and
injuries.
The authors of the report, called “America Under The Gun,” developed a list of ten indices of gun violence, ranging from gun homicide levels to firearm assaults to crime gun export rate (the number of guns sold in that state used in crimes around the country), and ranked each state from 1-50 along each index. They then took the average of each state’s ranking to determine its overall level of gun violence relative to other states. Lousiana was the highest, with an average of fifth-worst across all ten indices, while Hawaii’s 45.4 ranking was the best.
A statistical regression comparing these rankings with strength of gun law found a correlation between weak gun laws and violence levels as measured by the 10-index average. Comparing a state’s relative ranking in strength of gun law (as judged by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence) to a state’s relative gun violence ranking yielded clear evidence that states with looser gun laws contributed more to the national gun violence epidemic:
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The authors of the report, called “America Under The Gun,” developed a list of ten indices of gun violence, ranging from gun homicide levels to firearm assaults to crime gun export rate (the number of guns sold in that state used in crimes around the country), and ranked each state from 1-50 along each index. They then took the average of each state’s ranking to determine its overall level of gun violence relative to other states. Lousiana was the highest, with an average of fifth-worst across all ten indices, while Hawaii’s 45.4 ranking was the best.
A statistical regression comparing these rankings with strength of gun law found a correlation between weak gun laws and violence levels as measured by the 10-index average. Comparing a state’s relative ranking in strength of gun law (as judged by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence) to a state’s relative gun violence ranking yielded clear evidence that states with looser gun laws contributed more to the national gun violence epidemic:
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Very Little Changes As Gun Lobby Once Again Thwarts Feinstein on Assault Weapons
Harry Reid drops her assault weapons ban from the Democratic gun-control package as the NRA cheers.
Everyone knew that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban was going to be the toughest gun-control reform to achieve in the wake of the Newtown massacre. Although it passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on a party line vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Feinstein last night that it won’t be part of the still-undefined gun control package he’ll bring to the Senate floor. Feinstein is free to introduce her bill, which bans 157 models of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, as an amendment to the package, but it will almost certainly fail.
“People say, well aren’t you disappointed; I say, of course I’m disappointed,” a visibly frustrated Feinstein told reporters (including Salon’s Alex Seitz Wald) Tuesday afternoon. “Because if it was in a package it would take 60 votes to get it out.” She suggested asking Reid directly about his reasoning, and a little while later, Reid obliged. “Using the most optimistic numbers,” the Senate leader insisted, the assault weapons ban has less than 40 votes. “That’s not 60.”
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Everyone knew that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban was going to be the toughest gun-control reform to achieve in the wake of the Newtown massacre. Although it passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on a party line vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Feinstein last night that it won’t be part of the still-undefined gun control package he’ll bring to the Senate floor. Feinstein is free to introduce her bill, which bans 157 models of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, as an amendment to the package, but it will almost certainly fail.
“People say, well aren’t you disappointed; I say, of course I’m disappointed,” a visibly frustrated Feinstein told reporters (including Salon’s Alex Seitz Wald) Tuesday afternoon. “Because if it was in a package it would take 60 votes to get it out.” She suggested asking Reid directly about his reasoning, and a little while later, Reid obliged. “Using the most optimistic numbers,” the Senate leader insisted, the assault weapons ban has less than 40 votes. “That’s not 60.”
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NRA's LaPierre lashes out at gun control efforts during CPAC speech
Wild applause greets LaPierre's CPAC address, in which he defended his call to put armed guards in America's schools
Wayne LaPierre, the head of the biggest gun lobby group in the US, defended his call to put armed guards in every school on Friday and declared that the answer to violent crime was to put guns in the hands of more people.
Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just outside Washington DC, LaPierre mocked those who call him "crazy" and delivered a powerful call for the widespread use of guns for Americans to defend themselves.
"The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun," he said, to wild applause.
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Wayne LaPierre, the head of the biggest gun lobby group in the US, defended his call to put armed guards in every school on Friday and declared that the answer to violent crime was to put guns in the hands of more people.
Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just outside Washington DC, LaPierre mocked those who call him "crazy" and delivered a powerful call for the widespread use of guns for Americans to defend themselves.
"The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun," he said, to wild applause.
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Missouri Bill Would Require All First Graders To Take NRA-Sponsored Gun Class
Students in Missouri have no sexual education requirement,
so there’s a good chance they don’t know how to properly protect
themselves from STIs or unintended pregnancy. Soon, though, they may be
able to protect themselves from guns.
Missouri state Senate is considering a bill that would require all first graders in the state to take a gun safety training course. Using a grant provided by the National Rifle Association, it would put a “National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program” instructor in every first grade classroom.
The irony that there’s no requirement for students to learn about their bodies — but that there is one for deadly weapons — seems lost on the legislators proposing the measure, one of whom lamented, “I hate mandates as much as anyone, but some concerns and conditions rise to the level of needing a mandate”:pushing for its passage:
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Calling Stephen Harper. Calling Stephen Harper.
Missouri state Senate is considering a bill that would require all first graders in the state to take a gun safety training course. Using a grant provided by the National Rifle Association, it would put a “National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program” instructor in every first grade classroom.
The irony that there’s no requirement for students to learn about their bodies — but that there is one for deadly weapons — seems lost on the legislators proposing the measure, one of whom lamented, “I hate mandates as much as anyone, but some concerns and conditions rise to the level of needing a mandate”:pushing for its passage:
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Calling Stephen Harper. Calling Stephen Harper.
6 Things We Learned at the Senate's Big Guns Hearing
Mark Kelly and Wayne LaPierre agree on something. At
Wednesday's much-anticipated Senate judiciary committee hearing on gun
violence—featuring former astronaut Mark Kelly, Baltimore police chief
John Johnson, NRA head Wayne LaPierre, and others—the fireworks, such as
they were, erupted over background checks and high-capacity magazines.
But on mental health, a significant element of President Barack Obama's
gun control package, there appeared to be some agreement. Here's Kelly
on the Tucson shooter who tried to kill his wife, Gabby Giffords: "He
had never been legally adjudicated as mentally ill, and, even if he had,
Arizona at the time had over 121,000 records of disqualifying mental
illness it had not submitted to the background check system." And here's
Wayne LaPierre: "We need to look at the full range of mental health
issues, from early detection and treatment, to civil commitment laws, to
privacy laws that needlessly prevent mental health records from being
included in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System."
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn (among others) lamented the failure of state agencies to turn over mental health records to the NICBS, and suggested it might be worth examining the ease with which the outpatient mentally ill can obtain weapons. Still, it was unclear how far LaPierre would go to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, given that he generally opposed more expansive and effective background checks.
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Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn (among others) lamented the failure of state agencies to turn over mental health records to the NICBS, and suggested it might be worth examining the ease with which the outpatient mentally ill can obtain weapons. Still, it was unclear how far LaPierre would go to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, given that he generally opposed more expansive and effective background checks.
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Shocker: NRA Survey Finds Its Members Love Its Extreme Policies
A new survey conducted by the National Rifle Association finds that—surprise!—NRA
members really, really like the NRA and its policies. More
specifically, it found that 98 percent have a favorable view of the
gun-rights organization and its absolutist
stance. On the flip side, 93 percent have an unfavorable view of
President Barack Obama; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg squeaks by with
an 80 percent disapproval rating. Moreover, the NRA finds its members
overwhelmingly reject gun-control measures that nobody in Washington is
seriously proposing.
Beyond the Saddam-like approval ratings, the survey of 1,000 NRA (PDF) members shows that the vast majority "are united in their desire for Washington to focus on keeping firearms from the mentally ill and to reject unconstitutional gun control measures that infringe on Second Amendment rights." More than 90 percent support keeping firearms away from the mentally ill, 89 percent oppose an assault-rifle ban, 83 percent oppose a ban on high-capacity clips, and 82 percent back the NRA's proposal to put "armed security professionals" in every public school.
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Beyond the Saddam-like approval ratings, the survey of 1,000 NRA (PDF) members shows that the vast majority "are united in their desire for Washington to focus on keeping firearms from the mentally ill and to reject unconstitutional gun control measures that infringe on Second Amendment rights." More than 90 percent support keeping firearms away from the mentally ill, 89 percent oppose an assault-rifle ban, 83 percent oppose a ban on high-capacity clips, and 82 percent back the NRA's proposal to put "armed security professionals" in every public school.
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Meet the NRA's Board of Directors
Tom Selleck, Ted Nugent, and Karl Malone are just some of the high-caliber individuals who call the shots at the National Rifle Association.
The National Rifle Association claims to speak for more than four million gun owners. But the shots are really called by a hush-hush group of 76 directors. The majority are nominated via a top-down process and elected by a small fraction of NRA members. A breakdown of the current board, based on their official bios:
- 87% are men. 93% are white.
- 25% are current or former federal, state, or local lawmakers or officials.
- 22% are current or former law enforcement officers. 30% are current or former members of the military.
- 24% are lawyers.
- 12% are entertainers or athletes.
- 64% are hunters. 71% are sport or competitive shooters.
- At least 71% were nominated, endorsed, or selected by the NRA's Nominating Committee.
NRA’s New Ad Goes After the Obama Daughters
Apparently President Obama is a hypocrite because his children are
protected by the Secret Service. Doubtless the NRA goons used similar
tactics in the 1990s with Chelsea when President Clinton pushed for the
assault weapons ban.
via the Washington Post:
The National Rifle Association released a new video on its Web site Tuesday calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for having Secret Service protection of his daughters at school but saying he was “skeptical” about installing armed guards in all schools.
The NRA’s provocative, 35-second video is as harsh as any attack ad in a political campaign and illustrates how emotionally charged and personal the debate over gun control is becoming.
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via the Washington Post:
The National Rifle Association released a new video on its Web site Tuesday calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for having Secret Service protection of his daughters at school but saying he was “skeptical” about installing armed guards in all schools.
The NRA’s provocative, 35-second video is as harsh as any attack ad in a political campaign and illustrates how emotionally charged and personal the debate over gun control is becoming.
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Gun Control? Dream On.
Why am I even bothering to write about gun control? That was going to be
my opening sentence when this column was to be focused on the Aurora,
Colorado, movie-theater massacre: twelve people murdered and fifty-eight
wounded, some very severely, by James Holmes, demented neuroscience
graduate student. Then came the massacre at the Sikh temple in Oak
Creek, Wisconsin: six killed and three wounded by Wade Michael Page,
40-year-old white supremacist and leader of a racist hardcore band
called End Apathy. And even after this horrific crime, which the FBI is
calling “domestic terrorism,” my opening is the same: Why am I even bothering to write about gun control?
End apathy? Fat chance. If even the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, one
of Congress’s own, by Jared Loughner, another hyperarmed madman, didn’t
move her pro-gun colleagues or their constituents, nothing will.
Remember the Million Mom March? In May 2000, 750,000 women gathered on the National Mall to call for what are often referred to as “reasonable” controls on guns, like background checks at gun shows and handgun registration (as opposed to “unreasonable” curbs like making it illegal to buy weapons intended to kill people—for example, handguns or AK-47s, let alone 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet). Today you might as well stand on the Mall and sing “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
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Remember the Million Mom March? In May 2000, 750,000 women gathered on the National Mall to call for what are often referred to as “reasonable” controls on guns, like background checks at gun shows and handgun registration (as opposed to “unreasonable” curbs like making it illegal to buy weapons intended to kill people—for example, handguns or AK-47s, let alone 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet). Today you might as well stand on the Mall and sing “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
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Sikh Temple: In the Wake of Yet Another Massacre, What Will it Take to Stop the Gun Madness?
The reason we can't have a sane, adult discussion of how to cut down on
random gun violence is simple: the NRA has hoodwinked gun owners.
The United States is not the only country to experience the horrors of mass shootings. We are, however, the only society in which a serious discussion of tighter gun controls doesn't follow incidents like the massacres we've seen at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin or the movie theater in Aurora. In fact, in most countries these kinds of tragedies result in some kind of concrete legislative action.
The reason we can't have a sane, adult discussion of how to cut down on random gun violence is simple: the NRA has hoodwinked a lot of reasonable gun owners into believing that there's a debate in this country over banning firearms altogether. We'll never be able to have a serious discussion about how to cut down on gun violence until that group accepts the actual terms of the debate. And the NRA has a vested interest in making sure they remain obscure because the organization represents gun manufacturers and a small, highly ideological minority of gun-nuts, rather than (typically responsible) gun owners.
And that means that, at least in theory, there is political space for a new kind of gun control advocacy – one that isn't about whether Americans have a right to bear arms, but instead explicitly advocates safe and responsible gun ownership, a goal the polls tell us most gun owners would embrace.
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The United States is not the only country to experience the horrors of mass shootings. We are, however, the only society in which a serious discussion of tighter gun controls doesn't follow incidents like the massacres we've seen at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin or the movie theater in Aurora. In fact, in most countries these kinds of tragedies result in some kind of concrete legislative action.
The reason we can't have a sane, adult discussion of how to cut down on random gun violence is simple: the NRA has hoodwinked a lot of reasonable gun owners into believing that there's a debate in this country over banning firearms altogether. We'll never be able to have a serious discussion about how to cut down on gun violence until that group accepts the actual terms of the debate. And the NRA has a vested interest in making sure they remain obscure because the organization represents gun manufacturers and a small, highly ideological minority of gun-nuts, rather than (typically responsible) gun owners.
And that means that, at least in theory, there is political space for a new kind of gun control advocacy – one that isn't about whether Americans have a right to bear arms, but instead explicitly advocates safe and responsible gun ownership, a goal the polls tell us most gun owners would embrace.
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US Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity
James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the
massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with
relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight
years ago. Legislation now before Congress would once again make
illegal, if not the guns themselves, at least the high-capacity
magazines that allow bullets to be fired rapidly without stopping to
reload. Holmes bought most of his weaponry within recent months, we are
told. Perhaps, if sane laws on gun control, including the ban on high-
capacity magazines, were in place, many in Aurora who are now dead or
seriously injured would be alive and well today.
(Michael Glasgow / CC-BY)
(Michael Glasgow / CC-BY)
The facts of the assault are generally
well-known. Holmes allegedly burst into the packed theater during the
12:30 am premier of the Batman sequel “The Dark Knight Rises,” threw one
or two canisters of some gas or irritant, which exploded, then began to
methodically shoot people, killing 12 and wounding 58.
“Everybody sort of started screaming, and
that’s when the gunman opened fire on the crowd, and pandemonium just
broke out,” Omar Esparza told me. He was in the third row, with five
friends out for a birthday celebration: “He started opening fire on the
audience pretty freely, just started shooting in every direction, that’s
when everybody started screaming, started panicking. A lot of people
had been hit at that point at those initial few rounds, and that’s when
everybody sort of hit the floor and started to exit.”
NRA Offers ‘Stand Your Ground’ Insurance To Cover Legal Costs Of Shooting People In Self-Defense
In a rare “scoop” for an editorial cartoonist today, Matt Bors skewered a little-known National Rifle Association (NRA) program
that offers insurance to cover policy holders’ costs should they become
embroiled in a legal battle after shooting someone in self-defense.
The insurance — technically endorsed by the NRA and administered by Lockton Affinity exclusively for NRA members — is available as a rider to the “excess personal liability” plan. Here’s how the website advertises the added coverage for self-defense (emphasis in the original):
The insurance — technically endorsed by the NRA and administered by Lockton Affinity exclusively for NRA members — is available as a rider to the “excess personal liability” plan. Here’s how the website advertises the added coverage for self-defense (emphasis in the original):
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• Provides coverage up to the limit selected for criminal and civil defense costs.
• Cost of civil suit defense is provided in addition to the limit of liability for bodily injury and property damage.
• Criminal Defense Reimbursement is provided for alleged criminal actions involving self-defense when you are acquitted of such criminal charges or the charges are dropped.
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