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Steve Rose

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Minneapolis, MN
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Posted on 01/05/13 at 10:17 am in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Perhaps so. They had a grandiose plan, and they took on a world super power. When it was done, they forged a government that protected the rights of the people, including the right of self defense.

Now we live in a land where I can decide how to protect my home and you can decide how to protect your home. And, you are free to disrespect they way I protect my home. All guaranteed by the first two items of the Bill of Rights. What a great country.

Posted on 01/06/13 at 02:05 pm in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Your point: "The gun industry is the only manufacturer of inherently dangerous products that gets special treatment from legislators that avoids accountability and responsibility for distributing millions of deasly [sic] products to the public."

If the auto industry is free of responsibility for someone using their product to kill a person, how can you hope to hold makers of other products to a higher standard? Because you don't like that product, is not a valid answer.

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Posted on 01/07/13 at 08:12 am in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

... is that manufacturers can be held accountable when their product malfunctions and that malfunction results in harm. Lawsuits have been brought against gun manufacturers when someone has been harmed, but not by malfunction of the product. I used the Dinkytown incident to show that it is not so with manufacturers of other products, like cars.

What is the difference? We like cars but we don't like guns; cars are good, guns are bad!

Posted on 01/07/13 at 09:04 am in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Have there been significant improvement in rates of violent crime and murder?

Let's review what has occurred over the past ten years in the U.S.
1) About 10 million guns have been sold.
2) 10 more states have become right to carry states, including Minnesota.
3) We have lived 10 years since expiration of the "assault weapons" ban.
4) Violent crime rate has dropped 50% from 757/100K to 386/100K.
5) Murder rate has dropped over 50% from 9.3/100K to 4.7/100K...

Posted on 01/07/13 at 10:58 am in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Regardless of what else has occured in the last ten years, do the FBI crime statistics indicate that we are have run off the rails, and that something must be done?

What should drive us to action as a country, ten years of history or the criminal actions of one individual?

We had an "assault weapons" ban for ten years and now have ten years of history without one. Give me the compelling argument for an assault weapons ban. The actions of one individual is not a compelling...

Posted on 01/07/13 at 05:47 pm in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Senator John Marty, and his Chicken Little chorus, subjects us all to another shrill performance of “the sky is falling, the sky is falling! Is it; is the sky falling?

Since I am not the one calling for change, I will ask those demanding change to make their case. If you call for an “assault weapons” ban, include crime statistics from the period since the ban’s expiration to support your case for a ban's effectiveness.

Posted on 01/07/13 at 08:59 pm in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

Thanks for the compliment. Back to the discussion, care to make a case for reinstatement of the "assault weapons" ban? We had it for ten years and then we lived without it for ten years. Make a cogent case for reinstatement of the ban, and make it based on facts and data. Or, make another one of those statements like your last one.

Posted on 01/08/13 at 08:56 am in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

According to 2011 FBI crime statistics (FBI.gov), 323 murders were committed with rifles of all kinds, but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.

Go after the makers of more popular deadly weapons, and then and only then will I listen to your arguments against the makers of "assault rifles".

Posted on 01/08/13 at 12:04 pm in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

So ridiculous is establishing policy based on "the United States today", assuming nothing will ever change, the government can always be trusted, and world history is irrelevant. Good luck with all that.

Posted on 01/08/13 at 04:00 pm in response to Regulating guns like cars: Perspective on the gun debate after Sandy Hook

The sky is supported by the 2nd Amendment and numerous court rulings over the past 200 years. The Chicken Little crowd is claiming that the sky is falling. However, it is not.