Police say a husband and wife are dead in a murder-suicide shooting at a Las Vegas hospital.Maybe it was a mercy killing. Maybe it was mental illness. Who knows, maybe she was a battered wife. The only thing for certain is in the state of Nevada, anyone who wants to use a gun has no trouble getting one. And their crime rate and murder stats prove it.Lt. Dan Coe says the woman shot the man and then turned the gun on herself a little before 5 a.m. in a room on the fourth floor of Valley Hospital.
Police say the 55-year-old man was a patient at the hospital and had been there since August 10 with a deteriorating illness and an unknown mental condition. The woman had been staying the night in the man's room.
What's your opinion? Is the gun availability and easy access in Nevada part of the problem? Or should they be the model for the rest of the country? The Brady Campaign gave them zero stars and only 9 points out of 100.
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How about you compare the crime stats and murder rate to Nevada's neighbor to the west... who just so happen to make the Brady Campaign's highest score.
ReplyDeleteImpossible. You can't carry a gun in a hospital there and we all know how gun control laws work so well.
ReplyDeleteMikeB: “The only thing for certain is in the state of Nevada, anyone who wants to use a gun has no trouble getting one. And their crime rate and murder stats prove it. What's your opinion? Is the gun availability and easy access in Nevada part of the problem? Or should they be the model for the rest of the country? The Brady Campaign gave them zero stars and only 9 points out of 100.”
ReplyDeletePlease show us the correlation between the rest of the 49 states’ Brady scores and their crime and murder rate.
Sebastian did one awhile back.
ReplyDeleteIt showed that there's no link between gun control and lower crime.
Yeah sure, gun control doesn't work. That's why in states like Louisiana you've got the same gun violence as you do in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteIf gun control works then Mass & California should have the lowest violent crime rates in the country.
ReplyDeleteBut they don't.
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ReplyDeleteMikeB: “Yeah sure, gun control doesn't work. That's why in states like Louisiana you've got the same gun violence as you do in Hawaii.”
ReplyDeleteOk, keep going. You have 47 more states to go.
I never say guns are the only factor, but they are a factor. And often they're the only factor that is not being addressed properly.
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ReplyDeleteMikeB: “I never say guns are the only factor, but they are a factor. And often they're the only factor that is not being addressed properly.”
ReplyDeleteGuns are the deciding factor when you like the numbers from that particular state/region. When you don’t like the numbers… well then there are other factors at work (that happen to make the big picture effect of gun control invisible). How come those other factors are not the most significant reason for Hawaii and Louisiana stats?