Actually, the celebratory gunfire is not as common in the States as you'd expect given the number of guns we have. In parts of Europe and the Middle East it happens at every party, especially New Year's Eve.Rumors of shots being fired on the Ben Franklin Parkway during the Fourth of July fireworks Monday night sent hundreds of people stampeding down the street and left spectators terrified, witnesses said yesterday.
Police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said that police received calls for shots fired on the parkway just before 11 p.m. but that the department found no shell casings or other evidence to suggest a shooting had occurred.One video posted to YouTube shows two flashes of light accompanied by two loud pops, neither of which was part of the city's fireworks display, but it's not clear what caused them.
You know why it's not commonplace in the States? Because there are laws against it and laws work.
Pro-gun folks like to mock us and say "just one more law" is what we want. No, what we want is a comprehensive set of common sense gun control laws enforced equally throughout all the states. This we have never tried, as Laci often points out.
So, no we don't want "one more law." We want proper common-sense gun control.
What do you think? Please leave a comment.
MikeB: “This we have never tried, as Laci often points out.”
ReplyDeleteBut… you just said we have laws against celebratory gunfire- and they work. One paragraph up.
I don’t get you.
"We want proper common-sense gun control."
ReplyDeleteA few days ago you said this would only be the first step and that what you really want is to eliminate all guns.... so which is it?
Jim: “A few days ago you said this would only be the first step and that what you really want is to eliminate all guns.... so which is it?”
ReplyDeleteBoth. In his defense he did not say he only wants common sense gun control. That is the part he wants us to accept, and then we should stand our ground. Is that about right, Mike?
TS, You're attempting to trip me up with contradictions is a drag. Even worse is your feigning to not understand what I mean.
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