It is seriously irresponsible conduct.
It is directly a part of guns ending up in the hands of people who commit crimes and who shoot police officers and civilians too.
The bullshit that we should assume that no one will end up with those guns, other than harmless people who wouldn't hurt a fly, is clearly wrong, as shown by every single one of these shootings. It takes an effort to keep legal guns out of the hands of criminals, an effort that the gun lunatics are unwilling to make. It seems clear they are afraid to discover just how many of their fellow pro-gunners are among those prohibited people. Instead, they stick their fingers in their ears and babble, LOUDLY, La-la-la-la-la-la-la-lahhhhhhhhhhhh, or stick their heads in the sand.
It is why they oppose a registry as well of private transactions.They don't want either transparency or accountability in the passing of guns to criminals and to other prohibited people. They are perfectly willing to close their eyes, and La la lahhh at the deaths of good people doing a dangerous job; they tell us earnestly that this is the price of their freedom. It is a price that is paid by other people.
It is not. It is the cost paid by other people for their laziness and willful ignorance, deliberate delusional gun insanity.
It's fine with them if other people die by guns, so long as they are not inconvenienced in any way. In reality, they are not more free, and they are not more safe.
Shame on them. They are part of the problem; it is their legal guns that end up in the hands of criminals.
From MSNBC.com and the AP:
Deputy shot and killed in Arizona
Deputy William Coleman, 50, was fatally shot while answering a burglary call
By BOB CHRISTIEDeputy William Coleman, 50, and his partner found a suspect in a van with a pit bull dog at a medical building at about 4 a.m., Arpaio said.
The man got out of the van and opened fire with a rifle, striking Coleman under his bulletproof vest. The deputy was taken to a hospital but doctors could not save him.
It isn't clear if Coleman was able to return fire, but other deputies eventually shot and killed the suspect, Arpaio said. The dog was calm and was taken to a sheriff's animal shelter.
Arpaio said investigators were trying to figure out why the 40-year-old man opened fire.
"We're trying to determine his identity, his background, to see if he has warrants or was involved in other criminal activity," Arpaio said. "I want to see who and what his background is, what caused him to come out shooting."
Coleman was a 20-year veteran. He is survived by a wife and two young children, ages 4 and 7, Arpaio said. He also has grown children in another state.
Coleman was assigned as a patrol deputy but had previously worked the sheriff's lake patrol unit.
Last year was one of the deadliest in recent history for law enforcement officers, with 173 killed in the line of duty as of Dec. 28, a 13 percent increase from 2010, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Of those, 68 federal, state and local officers were killed by gunfire in 2011, a 15 percent jump from the year before.
"There seems to be a war on cops across the nation, and here in Arizona," Arpaio said Sunday.
And shame on you, Dog Gone, both for refusing to understand us and for refusing to offer any compromises that might achieve at least a part of your goals.
ReplyDeleteWe don't oppose registration of firearms because we want criminals to have guns. We oppose registration because that's a necessary step to confiscating guns from legal owners.
In addition, we're still waiting for you to support that forty percent claim.