This video uses real data to debunk common myths about stockpiling ammunition for SHTF situations. It explains why using ammo for barter is a terrible idea, how much you really need for self defense and hunting, and the truth about hoarding ammo for militia activities.
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A recent poll that no gun owners in America that you or I know took, or even heard about until after the poll was concluded, conducted by the left leaning, liberal Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research makes the claim that a “majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws”.
When in actuality what is more likely is that a little over 1000 liberal gun control zealots were polled. And even 30% of them DO NOT favor stricter gun control. But lets make world headlines making it sound like America is all in with gun control. Mostly because the majority of their readers are so dense, they won’t look past the headline anyways.
Gun owners know that these same pollsters who claimed that Hillary would win in 2016 by a landslide cannot be trusted as a representative example of real Americans. Given their perceived stature in the news media industry, they like to make hair brained headlines that appear to be a majority of Americans views when in actuality it is a small number of people cherry picked from their left leaning audience.
We know they are just blowing sunshine up gun control zealots skirts and making national and world headlines with bullshit titles. Read the article in it’s entirety, then comment and share below your thoughts and whether you took this poll or not.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws, and most believe places of worship and schools have become less safe over the last two decades, according to a new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The survey was conducted both before and after this month’s mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand. It found that 67 percent of Americans support making US gun laws stricter, while 22 percent say they should be left as they are and 10 percent think they should be made less strict.
The New Zealand shooting on March 15 did not appear to have an impact on Americans’ support for new gun laws; support for tighter gun laws was the same in interview conduct before and after the shooting.
While a majority of Americans have consistently said they support stronger gun laws, proposals have stalled repeatedly in Congress in recent years, a marked contrast to New Zealand and some other countries, such as Australia, that have acted swiftly after a mass shooting. Less than a week after the mosque shootings, New Zealand moved to ban “military-style” semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines; similarly, after a mass shooting in 1996, Australia enacted sweeping gun bans within two weeks.
The new poll suggests many Americans would support similar measures, but there’s a wide gulf between Democrats and Republicans on banning specific types of guns. Overall, 6 in 10 Americans support a ban on AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons. Roughly 8 in 10 Democrats, but just about 4 in 10 Republicans, support that policy.
Republicans are also far less likely than Democrats to think that making it harder to buy a gun would prevent mass shootings, 36 percent to 81 percent. Overall, 58 percent of Americans think it would.
Still, some gun restrictions get wide support across party lines. Wide shares of both Democrats and Republicans support a universal background check requirement, along with allowing courts to prevent some people from buying guns if they are considered dangerous to themselves or others, even if they have not committed crimes.
In contrast to New Zealand, the United States has enacted few national restrictions in recent years. In part, that’s a reflection of gun rights being enshrined in the U.S. Constitution; in a poll by the Pew Research Center in spring of 2017, 74 percent of gun owners said the right to own guns is essential to their own sense of freedom.
That poll also found that gun owners were far more likely than those who don’t own guns to contact public officials about gun policy or donate to organizations that take a stance on the issue.
A divided Congress after last year’s midterm elections only serves to make any new national gun laws unlikely for the foreseeable future.
Overall support for stricter gun laws is unchanged since an AP-NORC poll conducted one year ago, a month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people killed. The post-Parkland poll marked an increase in support for stricter gun laws, from 61 percent in October 2017.
But the strength of that support appears to have ebbed. The percentage who say gun laws should be made much stricter, rather than just somewhat stricter, drifted down slightly after reaching a peak in the post-Parkland poll, from 45 percent then to 39 percent now.
The poll showed a wide share of Americans say safety in churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship has worsened over the past two decades. Sixty-one percent say religious houses have grown less safe over the last two decades. Slightly more said so after the New Zealand shooting than before, 64 percent to 57 percent.
Nearly 7 in 10 believe elementary and high schools have become less safe than they used to be. And 57 percent say the same about colleges and universities.
Charlene Bates, who works in the library at a high school in Idaho, said she believes a combination of factors has made schools less safe than in the past. Mental illness, parents who aren’t as engaged in their kids’ lives, social media and violent video games are among the reasons she cites for gun violence in schools.
“There are a lot of kids that you’re just unsure about, they’re kind of unstable,” said Bates, 46, from Pocatello, about 235 miles east of Boise. There are some students who are quiet, keep to themselves and she wonders if they’re “like a bomb waiting to go off. … I think that’s what scares me the most.”
While Idaho is one of the safest places in the United States, she sees coverage of mass shootings and violence elsewhere in the United States and around the world. Her school’s resource officer conducted some training recently and “he said it’s not if, it’s when. This is very likely to happen even in our community.”
“We aren’t isolated,” she said.
When it comes to places of entertainment, the public has mixed views. Nearly half consider concerts to be less safe than they were, and about as many say the same of bars and restaurants. Fewer — roughly a third — say sporting events have gotten less safe.
While many consider public transportation systems to be less safe, about a third of Americans say airports have gotten more safe over 20 years — likely a reflection of the stepped up security since the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Pane reported from Boise, Idaho.
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,063 adults was conducted Mar. 14-18 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
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AP-NORC Center: http://www.apnorc.org/
Verbicide and “gun violence” ~ Guest Column in The Missoulian By Gary Marbut on 3/25/19
When Jonathan Swift’s character Gulliver traveled to the land of the eminently rational horses, he tried to explain the to-them-unknown concept of a lie. They countered that the core purpose of language is to convey ideas or information, and that if wrong information is deliberately communicated then the core purpose of language is entirely defeated. To deliberately convey wrong information, they opined, is counterproductive, worse than had there been no communication whatsoever.
Such is the case with the term “gun violence.” When a person commits suicide by hanging with a rope, it is not spoken of as “rope violence.” Ditto with drugs. When a person dies in a car accident, it is not reported as “car violence.”
Verbicide is the deliberate misuse of language, too often done to achieve a political advantage not obtainable on a rational playing field.
“Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide—that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life—are alike forbidden.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Those who don’t understand and don’t like firearms commonly commit verbicide when they describe suicide with firearms, accidents, and self defense all as “gun violence” in order to sway those too lazy to question or think for themselves.
Those willing to trash the value of language with verbicide do not deserve your attention or respect, and should be challenged on their language crime every time.
Yes, Virginia, there is a bit of genuine gun violence in Montana, but not nearly as much as in urban areas of the U.S. What little real gun violence there is here is a small fraction of what the anti-gunners want you to believe with their verbicide by portraying suicide, accidents, and legitimate self defense as “gun violence.”
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Gary Marbut is president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association and accepted in state and federal courts as an expert concerning firearms safety and use.
They know it, you know it and I know it. Gun control does not work! Responsibly armed citizens help stop mass shootings and other violent crime! The world definitely needs more responsibly armed citizens!
Don’t let the media, who profits from and helps promote more violence, that buries realistic data under mountains of gun control advocacy group links, who further twist and turn statistical facts about violence prevented by gun owners in America to meet their agenda fool you. Responsibly armed citizens help stop crime! Watch the “I Carry A Gun” – Ultimate 2nd Amendment Gun Control Video”, review the facts, share then comment below.
Psypost.org – Study suggests mass shootings can inadvertently promote the idea of using guns to empower oneself
“People who feel dis-empowered tend to feel more willing to shoot someone when mass shootings loom large in their mind, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The findings provide some initial evidence that mass shootings can produce contagion-like effects.
“I am interested in the psychology of seemingly random or senseless acts of aggression and violence. I do not think such actions are as random or senseless as they appear,” said study author Pontus Leander, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Groningen and director of the Center for Psychological Gun Research.
“This particular study, on mass shootings, pertains to the spreading of violent ideas. We tested whether specific individuals – namely, those who are searching for their own means of personal empowerment, were the most likely to express more violent ideas in response to mass shootings.”
In four separate studies of 2,442 U.S. gun owners, the researchers found evidence that a sense of disempowerment was positively associated with willingness to shoot a home intruder and engage in vigilantism.
Disempowered participants agreed with statements such as “Not a lot is done for people like me in America” and “If I compare myself against other Americans, my group is worse off.” In one study, the researchers experimentally manipulated a sense of disempowerment by giving some participants a cognitive test that was impossible to solve correctly.
The research was conducted between June 2016 and November 2017, in the wake of the 2016 Orlando nightclub mass shooting, the 2017 Las Vegas strip mass shooting, and the 2017 Texas church mass shooting.
The link between disempowerment and assertive gun use was particularly strong among participants who felt mass shootings were an imminent threat. The findings suggest that mass shootings can inadvertently promote the idea of using guns to empower oneself.
In this case, assertive gun use was aimed at protecting oneself or others. But a similar psychological phenomenon could be at play among those with less lawful tendencies.
“Merely thinking about a threatening figure may suffice for us to be influenced by them. Although this sounds disturbing in the context of mass shootings, it is normal for human beings to internalize and imitate what we see in the world. If a troubling psychological phenomenon is rooted in an otherwise-normal mental process, it gives us a starting point for figuring out how to prevent it,” Leander told PsyPost.
The study — like all research — includes some limitations.
“As we note in the paper, these results should not be overstated. We only took the first step of testing for increases in violent ideas, but many additional factors will be involved for violent ideas to translate into behavior,” Leander explained.
“Our findings should be considered preliminary. I would like to establish clearer causality going forward – but that will require more resources than we have available.”
Why someone decides to commit a mass shooting is influenced by a host of factors, and researchers have only begun to scratch the surface.
“If we want to end the spread of violence, we must develop theories that can explain the psychological appeal of such behavior. With regards to the influence of mass shootings, we are in unknown territory and we have more questions than we can answer with our current resources. More research is needed. A lot more,” Leander said.
The study, “Mass Shootings and the Salience of Guns as Means of Compensation for Thwarted Goals“, was authored by N. Pontus Leander, Wolfgang Stroebe, Jannis Kreienkamp, Maximilian Agostini, Ernestine Gordijn, and Arie W. Kruglanski.”
This open letter (video) was delivered by Dr. Chuck Baldwin prior to the message on Sunday, March 17, 2019, during the service at Liberty Fellowship. The letter addresses the “red flag” gun confiscation law (Senate Bill 7) currently being proposed by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). President Donald Trump is also pushing this gun confiscation bill. This open letter addresses the egregious unconstitutionality of “red flag” laws and the dangerous ramifications that will result should this bill become law. Watch the video, share, read and make comments below.
