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Carl Miller of Chippewa Falls was trying to make a serious point about the frequency of gun violence in the U.S.
“It used to be the shooting of the month. Then the shooting of the week. Now, has anyone heard, has there been a shooting today?” he asked at Monday’s listening session held by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) at the Chippewa Valley Technical College campus in Chippewa Falls.
Kind, who represents the 3rd Congressional District, said there are things the government can do to lessen gun violence, including requiring universal background checks of people buying firearms.
He said absent background checks, you don’t know who is getting the weapons.
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laker1
(9/5/2015)
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| No they cannot prevent gun violence. Show us where that is true. |
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jac
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"Kind, who represents the 3rd Congressional District, said there are things the government can do to lessen gun violence".
Yes. There is something the government can do to lessen gun violence. Lock up the criminals.
It is the criminals, stupid!
Gun laws and restrictions only affect law abiding citizens. Criminals don't obey the law and they don't get their guns through legal channels. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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