First - from Miami, Florida station WPLG:
Miami police hold gun buy-back in Little Haiti
The Miami Police Department and the Miami mayor hosted a gun buy-back program Saturday.
Aaaaaand:
Miami police said three shotguns, two rifles and a handgun were turned in Saturday.
Second - from The Firearms Blog:
Ammo Prices: 5/02/2014
So, I’m not sure why but The Sportsman Guide has 500rds of .380 ACP for less than half of the other vendors with availability. It *is* Wolf, but still…
Also, there are a lot more vendors selling .22LR this week. Prices are still a bit “gougy”, but there are some at $0.13/rd (or less; which I realize is still hideous).
7.62X39 is about 21¢ in 1,000 quantity. I still have some so will put off ordering for a while.
Finally, from The Washington Post comes this editorial:
Framing the danger of guns as a public health risk will change the debate over gun control
When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed his state’s so-called guns everywhere law, it marked the latest in a string of legislative defeats for gun-control activists. Since the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders, 20 states have loosened gun laws . Georgia has now upped the ante with a bill that allows people to carry concealed weapons into bars, churches, schools and airports and prohibits law enforcement from requiring someone to show their gun owner’s license .To be sure, there have been meaningful successes for gun-safety advocates. But since Sandy Hook, the majority of gun laws passed in state legislatures around the country have loosened restrictions. How did this happen? Why did the nation respond to such a heinous crime by relaxing gun laws?
For progressives, there’s an easy answer — the money and lobbying clout of the National Rifle Association. This has an obvious appeal and even a modicum of truth. But as a Democratic strategist who looks at the relationship between public opinion and political reality, I fear that this answer has become a crutch: a comforting story progressives tell ourselves to avoid facing the fact that the country trusts the NRA more than us on this issue. After Sandy Hook, advocates expected a mighty backlash against legislators standing in the way of common-sense gun laws. But the opposite has happened: Only those legislators supporting stricter gun laws are at risk.
The problem is that supporters of new gun restrictions have traditionally approached the issue of gun violence as a political problem to be answered by changing laws. Instead, we need to start looking at guns as a public health problem to be answered by changing minds and habits. Until we change how we frame the debate through our messaging and strategy, the landscape for common-sense gun laws will only become increasingly hostile.
About the author:
Danny Franklin is a partner at Benenson Strategy Group, a strategic consulting firm, and a member of its team advising the White House on public opinion and communications.
So Danny is part of a team advising the Obama White House. He is dismayed by the fact that more and more people are considering guns to be useful tools and not inherently evil and something to be closely managed. They are finding that they cannot package and sell gun grabbing from a legal standpoint. Now they are regrouping and selling it as a public health issue all the while ignoring the basic truth.
The basic truth is More Guns = Less Crime.
The numbers prove it and the 'average citizen' understands this.
