The stupidity that is Chattanooga's newspaper continues

[tng27]

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/jan/24/more-people-shot-death-tennessee-killed-vehic/346298/

[Randall53]

This newspaper has always been a Liberal mouthpiece. They call often offering discount subscription rates. I just tell them I wouldn't take it for free. Old editions do come in handy when I clean fish however.

[Will Carry]

Good drivers in Tennessee.

[Sam1]

Good drivers in Tennessee.

 

More people need to be optimistic like this.

 

Not to downplay the issue, but 20,000 of the 30,000 deaths that involve guns in the USA are suicide.  The people that really want to do that, will continue to do so and use other methods like they do in China.  Guns are banned there and their suicide rate is nearly double the ratio ours is.  Don't count suicides and there will be more people killed in the US by drunk drivers than by a gun.

It's a shame the population can't spend 10 minutes to fact check these fucked up statistics that keep being used.

[tng27]

The fact is you're more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than a gun unless you're suicidal, a black male ages 17-35, or hang out with said males.  If you want to differentiate between handguns and long guns, you're even safer statistically.  Let's not let reality stand in the way though.

[krunchnik]

(I would like to see automatic brakes)Yea-cause that would work out so well-why do we not automatic everything in life :confused:

[Tncobra]

Putting airbags,antilock brakes,cameras and other mandated items on firearms with only make it harder for the poor to purchase a base line model.

[DaveTN]

Remove the suicides (I mean it is probably one of the most humane ways, and access to guns won’t stop people from killing themselves), remove the legally justified shootings. What happens to that number when its only criminal acts and negligent shootings?

[diamondback]

I am sure Memphis and some other areas are a big reason for that, but the gun control people ( often lefties) don't want to discuss the deficit of morals and so forth. Just blame the guns

[Jonnin]

Last year or so this has been a big push, to claim that guns are worse than cars.   Its true once they factor in ALL gun deaths (suicides, cops, accidents, defense shootings, assaults) and factor out certain types of vehicle deaths.

[SupaRice]

Being progressive and open minded, I'm sure she'd love to hear what you thought of her piece.


Shelly Bradbury
Phone: 423-757-6525
E-mail: sbradbury@timesfreepress.com

Edited January 24, 2016 by SupaRice

[Sam1]

Remove the suicides (I mean it is probably one of the most humane ways, and access to guns won’t stop people from killing themselves), remove the legally justified shootings. What happens to that number when its only criminal acts and negligent shootings?

 

You end up with deaths related to firearms as low as any country with strict firearms laws.  But don't tell anyone that.

[R_Bert]

Knoxnews ran the same blither - http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/More-people-shot-to-death-in-Tennessee-than-killed-by-vehicles-366343241.html

[Spiffy]

I could stop A LOT of the gun violence but I'd be called a racist and would probably violate A LOT of civil rights, but it would effective in stopping gun violence.

[ken56]

Suicide is tragic, yes, but if someone is so tortured in their life here on this earth then I hope they find the peace they seek in their decision on leaving this world. The families of such people, at least some, surely know they may be in such a state of mind as to warrant locking up the method they may choose of departing this world, but you know, you can't place any blame on anyone involved in a tragedy. There are always signs.

 

If you have ever been in the shoes of a parent of an adult child trying to seek help for a mental health issue you have my sympathy. We had a very close friend whose daughter need some serious help and her mom tried every avenue available through community mental health programs to no avail. It became quite evident that these programs were numbers driven seemingly to support their funding. Quite like the VA wait times debacle. Mom was told that her daughter was an adult and she could do nothing to/for her without legal power of attorney except bring her to the clinic when she had an episode, if she could get her to go. Basically, the system fails more than helps. I am sure there are success stories out there, but with every news story that says the signs were "missed" in every mass shooting incident, or suicide, or other tragedy it is too little, too late.

 

So the focus is put on the instrument of death with the gun being the killing machine and not the car. I really want to know what it is that actually bothers the gun grabbers more, the loss of life, or the method of the loss of life. Being dead is still dead no matter how it happens, isn't it? Irresponsible use of a car can be just as deadly as irresponsible use of a gun, right? We know that cars can be regulated as can drivers because driving is a privilege. The 2A affirms the RIGHT to bear arms that can not be infringed. That is the one point that is always left out of news articles like this. I want to know why it is never asked why a machine that is not designed to kill, kills more people in general than a device that is solely designed to kill. Now we get into the responsible user issue.

 

If the resources of the gun grabbers, or even the pro 2A side, were put to use in analyzing the prosecution and courts and the sentencing of criminal offenders using firearms in their crimes that would be a good news story. The story that comes to mind for me is the little girl whos choir sang at Obamas inauguration, who was shot is a Chicago park just weeks after. Her killer was a gang member who was out on bond for another gun crime. The big question is WHY was he back out on the streets???? If the news focused on this crap instead  of car vs. gun deaths then we might see some progress in stopping  "gun violence". Lets call the system out for its revolving door releasing of violent criminals. Oh, but wait......some one has to pay for that.

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[Mark A]

I'm a bit confused by the article... Are we going to start putting seat belts on pistols?

 

Will that help us be safer?

[crossfire]

This newspaper has always been a Liberal mouthpiece. They call often offering discount subscription rates. I just tell them I wouldn't take it for free. Old editions do come in handy when I clean fish however.

This :up:

[Monkeybat]

This whole board should blow up her email. As a guy who gets 100's of emails a day nothing would be worse than having to sift through numerous emails for real work. Another tactic would be to change your subject line to something to entice her to open it. Start with a paragraph of praise then attack. This way you've wasted as much of her time as possible.

She looks like one of the young brainwashed twits our liberal colleges are initiating these days.


Sent from the Fortress of Solitude.

[frankmako]

she is a fool and a sheep.  she will be one of the first to go if her kind and the kind she supports takes over.  she is just a tool not knowing that they will throw her away when they are done with her.