Gun politics addresses safety issues and ideologies related to firearms through criminal and noncriminal use. Gun politics deals with rules, regulations, and restrictions on the use, ownership, and distribution of guns. The total number of firearms in Brazil is thought to be around 17 million with 9 million of those being unregistered. Some 39,000 people died in 2003 due to gun-related injuries nationwide. Although Brazil has 100 million fewer citizens than the United States, and more restrictive gun laws, there are 25 percent more gun deaths; Approximately 80 percent of the weapons manufactured in Brazil are exported, mostly to neighboring countries; many of these weapons are then smuggled back into Brazil. Some firearms in Brazil come from police and military arsenals, having either been "stolen or sold by corrupt soldiers and officers."
In 2005, a referendum was held in Brazil on the sale of firearms and ammunition to attempt to lower the number of deaths due to guns. Material focused on gun rights in opposition to the gun ban was translated from information from the National Rifle Association, much of which focused on US Constitutional discussions focused around the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although the Brazilian Government, the Catholic Church, and the United Nations, among others, fought for the gun ban, the referendum failed at the polls, with 64% of the voters voting no.
India has won an Olympic Gold medal in the 10m air gun category. It also has a few good shooters in the trap and skeet shooting areas. However, only renowned shots are allowed to import firearms, that too only after requisite permission from the authorities.
All manufacturing is done by the government ordnance factories,
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, sometimes known as the Shot heard 'round the world, in 1775, were started in part because General Gage sought to carry out an order by the British government to disarm the populace.
Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union did not abolish personal gun ownership during the initial period from 1918 to 1929, and the introduction of gun control in 1929 coincided with the beginning of the repressive Stalinist regime as part of Resolutions, 1918 Decree, July 12, 1920 Art. 59 & 182, Pen. code, 1926.
The population of Iraq was well armed while Saddam Hussein was in power, and this failed to either oust him from power, or prevent him from committing genocide. Widespread gun ownership in Iraq was a cause of concern to American military planners prior to the invasion of the country. The comparatively low level of violent crime, despite the liberal gun laws, is demonstrated by the fact that Swiss politicians rarely have the same level of police protection as their counterparts in the United States and other countries, as was noted following the fatal shooting of several government officials in the Swiss canton of Zug in September 2001. Some authors argue that Switzerland's militia tradition of "every man a soldier" contributed to the preservation of its neutrality during the Second World War, when it was not invaded by Nazi Germany because the military cost to the Nazis would have been too high. However, this claim has been disputed by historians who cite the existence of detailed invasion plans, which rated the overall Swiss defense capacity as low.
Some of the earliest gun-control legislation at the state level were the "black codes" that replaced the "slave codes" after the Civil War, attempting to prevent blacks' having access to the full rights of citizens, including the right to keep and bear arms. Laws of this type later used racially neutral language to survive legal challenge, but were expected to be enforced against blacks rather than whites.
A favorite target of gun control is so-called "junk guns," which are generally cheaper and therefore more accessible to the poor. However, some civil rights organizations favor tighter gun regulations. In 2003, the NAACP filed suit against 45 gun manufacturers for creating what it called a "public nuisance" through the "negligent marketing" of handguns, which included models commonly described as Saturday night specials. The suit alleged that handgun manufacturers and distributors were guilty of marketing guns in a way that encouraged violence in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. "The gun industry has refused to take even basic measures to keep criminals and prohibited persons from obtaining firearms," NAACP President/CEO Kweisi Mfume said. "The industry must be as responsible as any other and it must stop dumping firearms in over-saturated markets. The obvious result of dumping guns is that they will increasingly find their way into the hands of criminals."
The NAACP lawsuit was dismissed in 2003. It, and several similar suits—some brought by municipalities seeking re-imbursement for medical costs associated with criminal shootings—were portrayed by gun-rights groups as "nuisance suits," aimed at driving gun manufacturers (especially smaller firms) out of business through court costs alone, as damage awards were not expected. These suits prompted the passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in October, 2005.
Martin Luther King said, "By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim... we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."
Inversely, the Dalai Lama said "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the "Educating Heart Summit" in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate.
While many shootings occur in the course of a mutual argument of passion, others occur where a partner or family member of a "romantic" or familial relationship, who is an ongoing victim of domestic physical abuse or sexual abuse, uses the force of a firearm in self-defense action against a perpetrator who also happens to be known to or related to the victim. As a corollary, in such policy advertising campaigns, the comparison of "domestic" gun casualties is usually not accompanied by murder and assault prosecution numbers stemming from the shootings occurring in that context. In many of the latter cases, the victim firing in self-defense is frequently a woman or youth victim of a more physically powerful abuser. In those situations gun rights advocates argue that the firearm arguably becomes an equalizer against the lethal and disabling force frequently exercised by the abusers.
Many gun control opponents point to statistics in advertising campaigns purporting that "approximately 9 or so children are killed by people discharging firearms every day across the US," and argue that this statistic is seldom accompanied by a differentiation of those children killed by individuals from unintentional discharges and stray bullets, and of those "children," under the age of majority—which is 18-21 in the U.S.—who are killed while acting as aggressors in street gang related mutual combat or while committing crimes, many of which are seen as arising from the War on Drugs. There is further controversy regarding courts, trials, and the resulting sentences of these mostly "young men" as adults despite them not having reached the age of consent. A significant number of gun related deaths occur through suicide.
In an argument against gun control, the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit conservative think tank, reported the following statistics:
In addition: As of 2006, approximately 35% of American households have a gun in them. About 22% of Americans actually own a gun.
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| Name | John Stossel |
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| Caption | John Stossel outside Fox Studios after a taping of Stossel, June 9, 2010. |
| Birthname | John F. Stossel |
| Birth date | March 06, 1947 |
| Birth place | Chicago Heights, Illinois |
| Education | B.A. in Psychology, Princeton University (1969) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, columnist, reporter, TV presenter |
| Status | Married |
| Spouse | Ellen Abrams |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Religion | agnostic Stossel |
| Url | http://www.johnstossel.com |
Stossel began his journalism career as a researcher for KGW-TV and later became a consumer reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, before joining ABC News as a consumer editor and reporter on Good Morning America. Stossel went on to be an ABC News correspondent, joining the weekly news magazine program 20/20, going on to become co-anchor for the ABC News show 20/20. He also opposes legal prohibitions against pornography, marijuana, gambling, ticket scalping, prostitution, homosexual activity, vaccinations and assisted suicide,
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| Name | Jackie Mason |
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| Caption | Mason in October 2006 |
| Birth name | Yacov Moshe Maza |
| Birth date | June 09, 1936 |
| Birth place | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-upTelevisionFilmBooksRadio |
| Nationality | American |
| Active | 1961–present |
| Genre | Satire/Political satireObservational comedyImprovisational comedy |
| Subject | American politicsInternational relationsCurrent eventsrace relationsAntisemitismJewish cultureAmerican culture |
| Spouse | Jyll Rosenfeld (August 14, 1991–present) |
| Children | Sheba Mason |
| Notable work | The World According to Me!Hyman Krustofski in "Like Father, Like Clown", "Today I Am a Clown" and "Once Upon A Time In Springfield" |
| Website | jackiemason.com |
Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At age 25, he was ordained a rabbi (as his three brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been) in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Mason referred to Barack Obama as a "schwarzer" during a performance in New York City on March 12, 2009, later saying "I'm an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where 'schwarzer' (Yid. Negro) was used," he said. "It's not a demeaning word and I'm not going to defend myself." Schwarz means "black" in Yiddish and German. They added:
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| Name | Chris Rock |
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| Imagesize | 200px |
| Caption | Rock at the Israeli premiere of , on November 22, 2008. |
| Birth name | Christopher Julius Rock III |
| Birth date | February 07, 1965 |
| Birth place | Andrews, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Origin | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York |
| Medium | Stand-up comedy, television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Active | 1984–present |
| Genre | Black humor, musical comedy, observational comedy, political satire, satire |
| Subject | African-American culture, American politics, , human sexuality, marriage, pop culture, race relations, racism |
| Influences | Bill Cosby, Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Pigmeat Markham, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, Rodney Dangerfield, Christian Finnegan, (born February 7, 1965) He decided to drop out of high school altogether and later received a GED. Rock worked menial jobs at various fast-food restaurants. |
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| Name | Rock, Chris |
| Date of birth | February 7, 1965 |
| Place of birth | Andrews, South Carolina, U.S. |
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