Liam Neeson : Gun control comments just lost him a large number of fans

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I would agree with you... if our population could be trusted to not repeatedly slaughter each other with guns. We've proven we can't be trusted to own them, it's time to give them up.

Re: Gun control comments just lost him a large number of fans

Hahaha. Liam Neeson must be terrified of the no-name chest-thumpers here!

Not only the US population as a whole, but a clear majority of COPS, poll as having precisely the same view; do you boycott them all too?

In fact, he's right. Many guns = many innocent deaths. The correlation is high. Take a look.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/opinion/guns-and-the-two-americas.html


Nationwide, if you want to lessen your chances of getting shot, stay out of the South. The South is the most violent region in the United States, and also the place with the highest rate of gun ownership. More guns, eas 5b4 ily obtained by the mentally ill, religious fanatics and anti-government extremists, mean more gun deaths.

Better to go to a city or state with gun restrictions, at least if you’re playing the odds. Most of the states with tighter gun laws have fewer gun deaths.

That’s one America, the slightly safer one. It includes government gun-screened zones like airports, courthouses and many high schools. But more significantly, it also covers property used by our most popular obsession, pro football — the free market at work.

The other America is an open-fire zone, backed by politicians who think it should be even more crowded with average people parading around with lethal weapons. Just after the tragedy in a Louisiana theater a week ago — a shooting by a hate-filled man who was able to legally obtain a gun despite a history of mental illness — Rick Perry called gun-free zones a bad idea.

In his view, echoing that of the fanatics who own the Republican Party by intimidation, everyone should be armed, everywhere. Once a shooting starts, the bad guy with the gun will be killed by the good guy with the gun, somehow able to get a draw on the shooter in a darkened theater, or behind a pew in church.

This scenario almost never happens. The logic is nonsense, the odds of a perfectly timed counter-killer getting the drop on the evil killer unlikely. And even when such a situation does happen, as in 2000 the Tucson shooting of 2011, the armed citizen who jumps into the melee can pose a mortal threat to others. In Tucson, an innocent person came within seconds of getting shot by an armed bystander who wasn’t sure whom to shoot.

Re: Gun control comments just lost him a large number of fans

Here's news for you: Almost everyone in Europe and other civilized parts of the world think like Neeson and are horrified by the lunatic NRA fringe in the U.S. You Neanderthals need to go back to watching reruns of Dukes of Hazard and dipping snuff and scratching yourself to see if it's still there and stop embarrassing this country any more than you already have done. Better yet, go back to school and learn some facts and judgment. I am not totally anti-gun myself, but you idiots who think you're in the colonial militia need to get over yourselves and your imaginary fears that someone is coming to get your gun. If you refuse to participate in a solution to the gun violence in this country, you are a child murderer. Perhaps we should put all your kids in special separate schools and declare open season for nut jobs. At least that would keep the kids of the rest of us safe. (I am of course not serious. All children are precious. But you need to take responsibility for the children who have been killed by gun nuts.)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

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i like guns

its not guns its the kind of people that use them

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