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GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms
HughPickens.com writes: Mike McPhate reports in the NY Times that two home shopping industry veterans, Valerie Castle and Doug Bornstein, are set to premier GunTV, a new 24-Hour shopping channel for guns, that aims to take the QVC approach of peppy hosts pitching "a vast array of firearms," as well as related items like bullets, holsters and two-way radios. The new cable channel hopes to help satisfy Americans' insatiable appetite for firearms. The channel's forthcoming debut might seem remarkably ill-timed, given recent shootings at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and at a social services center in San Bernardino, California but gun sales have been rising for years, with nearly 21 million background checks performed in 2014, and they appear on track to a new record this year. The boom has lately been helped by a drumbeat of mass shootings, whose attendant anxiety has only driven more people into the gun store. The proposed schedule of programming allots an eight-minute segment each hour to safety public service announcements in between proposed segments on topics like women's concealed weapon's apparel, big-game hunting and camping. Buying a Glock on GunTV won't be quite be like ordering a pizza. When a firearm is purchased, a distributor will send it to a retailer near the buyer, where it has to be picked up in person and a federal background check performed. "We saw an opportunity in filling a need, not creating one," says Castle. "The vast majority of people who own and use guns in this country, whether it's home protection, recreation or hunting, are responsible . I don't really know that it's going to put more guns on the streets."
Sort of like how letting all the Syrian refugees come to the the US won't increase violence one iota since the demographic of Syrian refugees isn't terrorists.
"I'm amazed how many people have the delusion that they are going to defend themselves with a gun despite the clear evidence that it almost never actually happens. "
Clear evidence? Hate to say it, but even the Department of Justice under Clinton (no friend of lawful gun owners) says there are several million defensive uses of firearms per year.
Also check the studies by Kleck out of FSU.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles...
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
Clear evidence? Hate to say it, but even the Department of Justice under Clinton (no friend of lawful gun owners) says there are several million defensive uses of firearms per year.
"Several million"? Did you actually read what you linked to? It directly contradicts what you are claiming. The estimates from a variety of sources vary wildly and many are no where near the millions. Furthermore the numbers were from a PHONE SURVEY which is detailed in the document. If you think that is a reliably way to estimate this problem you don't understand the problems with phone surveys. If you need to see a badly designed survey look no further. The numbers from these surveys are easily demonstrated to be nonsense. It says point blank that the estimates you indicate are clearly nonsense.
Actually, there are laws that are aimed at confiscating a citizen's property (ie: guns). New York and California have them, so, too, does Connecticut and, I think, either Maryland or Massachusetts.
The instances where a person's guns are seized are not widely reported on, but they do occur.
" From outside, America is bat-shit fucking insane."
Of course... from outside, a person is not knowledgeable about our past, nor the reasons our Country was founded.
" I don't understand what's so crazy about needing to register firearms?" - it's called a Right. Look it up. Cars, hairstyles, etc., are not Rights.
And, since past history has shown what happens to people who register their firearms, I would think you would understand why Americans are so opposed to this violation of our Rights.
do you have to register yourself to worship a god? go to a street corner and speak your mind? Petition your government?
Do you really think people should HAVE to?
Why do you need to register a car? Why, so an agent of the state can find you if he deems you have done wrong. It's not that America's gun laws are crazy, it is that people like you are crazy.
* Not only has a mass murder happened in CA which has amongst the strictest of gun laws within the US, gun massacres have happened in France, which has restrictions far greater. * These massacres have happened in places that by and large prohibit the carry of guns.
* I read roughly 1-3 stories per week of people using guns to prevent bad things from happening, many times without even the pulling of a trigger.
* My parents' generation as students commonly carried a firearm to school without incident so they could use it recreationally afterwards while today, many children's first exposure to the concept of firearms happens via repeated role playing in violent video games and other entertainment.
* While the USA ranks #1 in _gun_ murders, the USA ranks #111 in murder. Excluding the most restrictive US locales w.r.t. gun ownership would make that number significantly higher.
* By a per-capita comparison of 2009-13, Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Israel, and Switzerland exceed the US in mass murder by guns and have much more restrictive laws.
* Gun control laws have enabled harm brought to innocent people, e.g. Carol Browne, Amanda Collins, and Shaheen Allen.
* An evil person wishing to inflict mass casualties can do so without a gun: e.g. Oklahoma City, Waco, 9/11, Boston Marathon.
* The same politicians who call for new gun restrictions vehemently oppose expanding effots to control who and what crosses US the border. (Narco terrorists have their own submarine fleet for smuggling to the US. Think about that for a few minutes.)
* Prosecution of gun law violations has dropped by 25% in the current US presidential administration.
* In comming years 3D printing will become more accessible and thereby make the fabrication of gun parts possible without the thought of legal restrictions. (Related note: the San Bernadino terrorists modified guns that complied with the laws at the time of their purchase to function in ways the laws prohibit.)
I have no illusions about the touchiness of this subject. You have the right to your opinion, and I have the right to mine. Mine is that these facts signal that more gun restrictions will not decrease violence, but rather pose risk to increase it due to responsible people having reduced access to firearms for protection. I don't own a gun because of paranoia or a desire to fulfill any fantasy of heroism. I simply would rather have it and not need rather than need it and not have it. I didn't join the NRA because another member encouraged me or because a purchase bundled a membership. I joined after listing to my local representatives talk about gun control.
Really? Let's search the web for "hunting incident". We get: http://abc30.com/news/16-year-...
Perhaps it's an aberration? Let's dig further: http://animalrights.about.com/... - 1000 people per year are shot in hunting incidents. Hmm...
Let's dig further. Do we have reliable statistics? Nope. NRA blocked them, so we must assume that the real number of gun victims is greater.
Well its obvious that you at least haven't so its likely they haven't either. Do you even know what sparked the Battles of Lexington and Concord? The British troops were sent to confiscate the American's guns.
a gun is a general purpose tool as well to anyone who understands them
If you are dedicated enough, you can make yourself believe anything.
Of course a gun can be used for target practice, or for hunting animals, or to create a great deal of mechanical energy. But there are also a lot of guns designed to kill. That is their function.
Lots of things require registration & licensing.
How many of them are rights specifically called out in the constitution?
Name those cases.
1911 - Turkey, 1935 - China, 1938 - Germany, 1964 - Guatemala, 1970 - Uganda. I'm sure these come up a lot, without any background info. This seems to have actual supporting documentation.
are also the ones who want to impose their version of
Nice job spinning the conversation on to an unrelated topic. OP didn't make any mention of religion, abortion, or homosexuality, and those have no direct relationship to gun control. Excellent example of the backhanded ad-hominem attack.
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Though perhaps not the very best source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
It happened in California recently. The state legislature changed the list of crimes, conviction for which, would strip the right to possess a firearm. They did not notify any of the affected people who had legally registered firearms, giving them time to sell or otherwise dispose of their guns. Instead they showed up on their doorsteps with SWAT teams.