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... and harder to buy cough medicine than a gun:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-...than-guns-2015-10-02?mod=MW_story_top_stories
In America, where it's easier to ban Muslims than to ban guns.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-...than-guns-2015-10-02?mod=MW_story_top_storiesHaving the common cold is enough to get one treated like a common criminal. To purchase seemingly innocuous cold medications such as Sudafed, consumers must now show ID and have the purchase logged in a database. It’s all because the active ingredient, pseudoephedrine, is the same substance used by chemists to cook up the illegal drug methamphetamine — or crystal meth. Zyrtec-D and Mucinex-D also contain pseudoephedrine.
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban enacted in 1994 expired in 2004. Attempts to renew this ban have failed, as have attempts to pass a new ban, such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013).
It will eventually become a bit ho hum just another one. It is for me now. The law makers are stoopid.
Worth a revisit, if only for the video :
http://fusion.net/story/313347/gun-control-orlando-john-oliver/
Republicans and their allies in the NRA gun lobby said the Democratic bills were too restrictive and trampled on the constitutional right to bear arms. Democrats attacked the Republicans' two proposals as too weak and accused them of being in the thrall of the NRA.
"What am I going to tell the community of Orlando?" asked Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida after the votes. "Sadly, what I’m going to tell them is the NRA won again."
And for more stats (in French)And in the name of balance, white and latino kids are also being shot down with no/slight reasons as well.
Police in the US seems to have a serious problem.Training and self control;
Seems ridiculous to shoot at someone already on the floor, and if the shot is gone by accident, get some bloody training and know to use a safety.
For us ozzies, a couple of weeks ago, a mental patient armed with a knife was shot in a shopping center by police and 3 elderly bystanders wounded as colateral damages. Seems that we can not have much trust here either.Hopefully will not get as bad as in the states.
Not an excuse, but no wonder the cops are trigger happy when everyone else is packing a pistol.
Who would want to be a cop in the US?
The police force should be championing gun control.
A lot of police are coming out for gun control, but if even the POTUS can't do anything about it, what can the police do ?
Anyway, shooting a guy when he's on the ground is inexcusable, but the cops have a right to be nervous and no relief is in sight for them.
Not an excuse, but no wonder the cops are trigger happy when everyone else is packing a pistol.
Who would want to be a cop in the US?
The police force should be championing gun control.
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