Guns
by digby
Meanwhile, in Michigan:
The most sweeping rewrite of Michigan’s concealed handgun law in more than a decade includes details that go well beyond opening so-called “gun free zones” to hidden weapons.
The state House on Thursday passed the bill 68-41 and sent it to Gov. Rick Snyder, one of many laws sped through a lame-duck session that did not conclude until early Friday morning.
Aside from allowing concealed pistols in schools and other places, a number of measures are aimed at streamlining a permit process critics say remains far from uniform statewide.
One can only hope the Governor will think twice about signing that one at least.
FYI:
In 2008, 2,947 children and teens died from guns in the United States and 2,793 died in 2009
for a total of 5,740—one child or teen every three hours, eight every day, 55 every week for two years. The 5,740 children and teens killed by guns in 2008 and 2009:
Would fill more than 229 public school classrooms of 25 students each;
Was greater than the number of U.S. military personnel killed in action in Iraq and
Afghanistan (5,013);
The number of preschoolers killed by guns in 2008 (88) and in 2009 (85) was nearly double the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2008 (41) and 2009 (48).
But as usual we have the usual suspects, this one a typical Breitbartian, regurgitating their mantra:
Yes, people the world over do go crazy and try to kill people. Sometimes they do it with knives. But there is one big difference:
A man stabbed 22 primary school students in a knife attack in China on Friday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults.
The attacker "has been detained", said a spokesman for the Guangshan county government in the central province of Henan, where the stabbing happened.
"Twenty-two elementary school students were stabbed, so was an adult villager" but none of the victims died, the official, who declined to give his name, told AFP.
That is one big honking difference, you have to admit. Spraying a room full of little kids (or a movie theater) with automatic weapon fire is much more deadly. Don't these people get that? Even if a teacher was a quick draw artist and had a loaded handgun in her bra at all times, she couldn't beat the automatic weapon fire and prevent those kids from being killed. Even these would-be Wyatt Earps have to know that.
This is a gun worshiping culture that has morphed into an unimaginable level of barbarism. And apparently we are all just the idiot victims in the boiling water not able to recognize that America is killing itself one kid at a time.
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