She could have saved her own life if only she had "carried"...

[LoveLife&Laughter]

The murder of Kasandra Perkins by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who committed suicide a short time later, has reinvigorated the ongoing debate over gun control in America.   

On Thursday, the same day as a memorial service was held for Perkins in Texas, the CEO of the National Rifle Association felt that something had gone unsaid in mainstream discussions:

"The one thing missing in that equation is that woman owning a gun so she could have saved her life from that murderer" 

Is there a myopia test for CEO's?

[ProblemAgain]

she and her boyfriend used to go shooting together....they had guns in the house... so she is supposed to be strapped even when in the shower maybe? another duh moment brought to you by the nra...

[The Dyslexic Dodger]

 I saw a photo of her yep took a big man to shoot a 120 # woman. I gess the NRA wanted her to overpower him go arm herself and shoot him ?

 In many of domestic violence seneros with murder/ suisides I just want to say- Why to hell do yuo Have to take someone with yuo?

[Lifesighs]

With all the culture of rape in the country, perhaps women in some relationships should have stun guns attached to their wrists at all times, Or women from the age of 15 to 65.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

...maybe 7 to 77.  In my single days I dated women who carried pepper spray, mace, stun gun, whistles, and even one with a gun, but she was a cop.

[Lifesighs]

Were you suspicious looking?

[exedir]

If were only as simple as...well, that is the problem isn't it.  Everyone has an opinion and as far as the law is concerned Americans have the right to bear arms.  Question does a right trump use, use by those that shouldn't and can't use firearms in a safe and secure way, and yet, have a right to defend themselves against those armed and unarmed that mean to do harm.  

We are a well armed society, we are also a society of violence, danger and personal harm.  So, is it more important to defend than to disarm?  Most victims of violence are not those that perpetrate but those that are intended or in the way of those that wish and can do harm.  Would victims be better off armed and able to defend themselves?  Maybe. 

What we do have is an insecure society, in some places and instances a dangerous society and have been a society that has lived in violence since the founding.  To change how we live is more than an issue of whether we are armed or not, it is how we wish to live, live free or to live with limits, limits to personal freedom in exchange for security, how much and by whom.  In many cases the state is always suspect as to who it picks and chooses as those that do harm and those that need and are protected.

[ProblemAgain]

you can't disarm the whole nation by any means. japan is proof that you can't simply outlaw guns and solve the problems. guns are virtually illegal in japan and yet in spite of being an island nation, you can still buy llegal weapons there. the price is just a lot higher. there are too many guns and too many ways around the idea of banning weapons and truth be told, the idea of outlawing firearms isn't an answer but you can make it way more difficult to be a legal gun owner. i don't see a problem with that. just like you have to be licensed to drive a 5,000 pound chunk of steel that can kill others, perhaps we need some standards as to who should NOT be allowed to have firearms. would that it was so simple as to have a 15 minute test that would determine if you were a suitable gun owner but it isn't. and it is common to read reports of children and others being killed because of gaining access to weapons...point is that neither extreme is the answer. the unfettered proliferation of guns is every bit as dangerous as the outlawing of them...and the gun advocates do have a point that the bad guys will ALWAYS have access to guns...cause that is who they are...the bad guys...the gun controls tho might keep the weapons out of the hands of the loons..the  ones who kill en masse to get public acknowledgement of being 'somebody'..don't know how you keep guns out of the hands of those temporarily deranged...

[P.A.]

I think D. L. Hughly had it right. He says let everybody who wants a gun have as many as they want. Then charge $1000 each for bullets.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

That'd work...

[Lifesighs]

That's what they do with printers these days, the printer is dirt cheap however the ink costs real money. Or razorblades, same thing.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

Tax the hell out of guns & bullets like they do cigarettes -- because they kill?

[exedir]

Tax yes, smuggle probably and create an industry to do both, and as the twenties pointed out, violently.   

Proscribing what a society wants to do is more an imposition of the idea than the reality particularly when it come to personal habits, wants and needs.  If people want guns they will get them and ammunition too.  This season for giving has been highlighted by an all time high in the purchase of guns, on the premise that the next Obama administration will limit and make illegal the purchase, ownership and possession of weapons and ammunition.