Rational Nation USA

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Just another day in America... ... and your NRA working hard for unlimited gun rights... ... and we have politicians and gun advocates arguing for less restritions... ... and more open carry and armed teaches... America, an exceptional firearm hungry society. Find full story BELOW THE FOLD . Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth America, a "civilized" modern industrial nation highly values the right of it's civilian population to own and keep firearms. The founding fathers and citizens  of a  fledgling nation, some 228 years ago, insured that the right of the people to keep and bear arms   would not be infringed.  Our right to firearm ownership is guaranteed  by the 2'nd Amendment to our constitution.  United States of America has the highest rate of firearm violence among industrialized nations . It also has the highest rate of firearm ownership in the world/. The data is chilling and anyone with a modicum of common sense and thinking rationally knows we have a problem and that our present patchwork system of managing firearm purchase and ownership is failing us. Follow are just the highlights as outlined in VOX . America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and 15 times as many ...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth An increasingly all too familiar occurrence. Yet life goes on and the NRA continues to fight against reasonable uniform firearm regulations apparently believes we have too few weapons on the streets and far too many regs already. COLUMBIA, SC — Authorities are investigating a murder-suicide Thursday inside a University of South Carolina research building on Assembly Street in the first multiple shooting death at USC in more than three decades. The State Law Enforcement Division would not identify the shooter, the victim nor say whether they were part of the university’s on-campus community. SLED spokesman Thom Berry would only say at 2:30 p.m., “There was no active shooter other than the two deceased.” The university at 1:16 p.m. sent a schoolwide text alert that stated: “SHORS (sic) FIRED AT NEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. Seek safe shelter.” The urban college went into lockdown, though some students were walking casually as close as ...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth When will it stop? Is the government of a civil society responsible for putting in place regulations that help prevent this kind of violence? Is the government of a civil society responsible for helping to provide protection against such violence and for insuring the safety of its children and adult citizenry? Or are we to leave it in the hands of the NRA who some view as an American terrorist organization ? Whatever your views this sh*t simply must stop . INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 9-year-old was injured in a shooting early Tuesday evening on the northwest side of Indianapolis, officials with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said. The incident happened in a neighborhood near North Michigan and Westlane roads. Neighbors say they saw two suspects — one wearing a hooded sweatshirt and the second with dreadlocks — pull up to the side of the Retreat Cooperative apartment complex in a green or blue Expedition. Neighbors describ...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth In the spirit of Patriotism no doubt 'Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher in one breath offered condolences to the slain victims of the UCSB shooting and in the next declared that "your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights . Technically I suppose he's right. Depending of course on how one interprets the 2'nd Amendment. Support for the 2'd Amendment and the right for the populace to bear arms for hunting and sport is something I believe the majority of of Americans are fine with. But this right must be regulated and uniformly applied across the nation. Our patchwork of gun regulations and laws have done little to control the firearm violence that has spread in recent years. Firearm manufactures with their money and lobbyists, along with the NRA have effectively stymied any reasonable, responsible, and needed national policy to improve the public's safety with respect to firearms and the...