NRA

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

Had to laugh as I read the story about more gun enthusiasts displaying exactly why more regulation needs to be applied to the industry. Three different gun shows and five people injured....talk about shooting yourself in the foot.Most of these gun advocates are bozos who will give the government no choice but to step in and tell them what's good for them.

huh?...wonder why the federal government hasn't "stepped in" to Chicago then.... or yet? people are actually dying there routinely....

2 shot to death in separate attacks on South, West sides
January 19, 2013|By Peter Nickeas and Liam Ford | Tribune reporters

About 9:15 p.m., a man was shot to death inside a Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen, 5500 W. North Ave. (Peter Nickeas/Tribune)Two young men were shot to death during another night of gun violence in Chicago Friday: One inside a well-lit restaurant along a West Side thoroughfare, the other in a dark gangway on a South Side block populated by vacant brick buildings.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by scottw

huh?...wonder why the federal government hasn't "stepped in" to Chicago then.... or yet? people are actually dying there routinely....

The key, as you clarify, is the FEDERAL Government. We have been so conditioned by the transformation of government in our country that people routinely refer to THE government, and by that they seem to automatically mean the Federal Government. And I don't think most even consider federalism with its separation of sovereign entities when they say THE government. Only when local issues or state issues are presented as such do most pay attention to differences. But, for a great segment of our population, THE government, particularly, the President, is the repository of power to fix all of our problems. When an accident occurs at a gun show in state X, and it is reported in the national media, the hue and cry is not that state X should "solve" the problem, but that THE Government has to do something.

[scottw]

I don't know...I'm counting on the president to surround himself with a bunch of gang bangers on a stage and read some letters that they wrote and sign a bunch of executive orders to fix the problem if he can save even one life...it's worth trying....after all, it's his hometown....