Jill2016.com, June 20th, 2016 (via American Third Party Report):
“Today the Senate decided to continue to be an accomplice to domestic terror of all stripes – whether motivated by racism, homophobia, anti-immigrant bias, misogyny, pseudoreligous fervor, or violent psychopathology.
“Congress has given a thumbs up to mass murder for decades, with over 80 people dying each day from needless gun violence, by allowing easy access to dangerous assault weapons and refusing to require universal background checks.
“Majorities of Americans support both of these measures. The NRA’s argument against background checks – that they create a database that will be used to take away firearms from legitimate owners – has been proven false by decades of experience with the gun owner database created by the National Firearms Act.
“And the NRA’s propaganda that owning a firearm provides protection is dangerously wrong. In fact, possessing a firearm puts the owner and her family at far greater risk, with a firearm being 22 times more likely to kill or injure in domestic homicide, suicide or accident than it is to be used in self-defense.
“It’s time for the Senate, and for Congress as a whole to get on the right side of history. Unfortunately, it failed to pass the modest, minimal gun protections the American people are literally dying for.”
Jill Stein
An oldie but goodie for the ridiculous comments in this thread:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check
Gun laws aren’t even a huge deal for me, but sometimes the sheer stupidity of the arguments against common-sense gun control solutions are worth calling out.
when you can pass a law that criminals will follow “when it comes to use of guns ,armed robbery, felon in possession etc. etc.” i too will give up my guns … because that will never happen and you know it !! don’t try to blow smoke up my ass and call it a all you can eat BBQ. the only way to make the streets safe is to pass a Federal level all 50 states death penalty.. thin the repeat felons from the streets. if a felon commits more then one bad act for every time he dose get caught and goes to jail and gets released just to commit another crime our streets will never be safe . look to city’s like Chicago strict gun laws and high crime, tons of shooting , why ? because criminals don’t give a shit about laws !!! more gun laws will fix nothing ! less criminals will !!
Yes, I’ve already scratched Dr. Stein off my list, too.
Pity. I think she’s a good human (as opposed to the terrible characters of Trump and Hillary), and she’s right sometimes. But, she’s wrong way too many times for me to support her.
Dammit. I was considering voting for Stein, since there won’t be a libertarian on the ballot. But supporting victim disarmament is a red line for me. Back to the search, I guess.
Contrary to their professed desire to decentralize gun regulation tips power towards government. I wonder if Jill Stein is up to discussing the issue in person with Alan Korwin.
http://townhall.com/columnists/alankorwin/2016/06/17/they-dont-want-your-ar15-they-want-everything-n2180118