The NRA Speaks
July 22, 2012 4 Comments
From the Borowitz Report:
N.R.A. PROPOSES SWEEPING BAN ON MOVIES
Posted by Andy Borowitz
FAIRFAX, Va. (The Borowitz Report)—Saying it was “high time to take action against the number one cause of violence in America,” the National Rifle Association issued a statement today urging a sweeping ban on movies.
Tracy Klugian, an official spokesperson for the gun-lobbying organization, said that the N.R.A. had taken this extraordinary step because it “could not stand idly by and watch movies tear apart the fabric of our civil society.”
To that end, Mr. Klugian said, the N.R.A. would use money from its PAC, the N.R.A. Political Victory Fund, to support politicians who favored a ban on filmed entertainment.
In the hours after the N.R.A.’s announcement, politicians on both sides of the aisle were quick to applaud the group for identifying what it called “a long overdue need for movie control.”
About Steve Greene
And yes it makes about as much sense as your push for gun control. Like I said in a previous post perhaps we should also ban lighters because much more destruction is done by arsonists including killing people.
The legal information resource ItsMyLife.com offers some interesting mortality statistics for the United States. Of the 2,400,000-plus Americans who die each year, over 45,000 are killed in transport accidents. The number of homicides, poisonings, and drunk driving fatalities are roughly the same, at around 17,000 each. Perhaps more surprisingly, a stunning 178,000 Americans die from medical or hospital error every year.
So here are some stats for you. So let us also ban cars, poison, booze and hospitals. Hospitals kill way more people through errors than do guns roughly ten times as many people are killed by hospital error than with guns
Those 17,000 homicides are not all gun related, that includes strangulations, beatings, knfiings etc but I just included it for comparison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6325967/Arson-a-burning-desire.html
Here is a link to people killed by arson every year in England alone