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PA Bill Number: HB335

Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.

Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...

Last Action: Removed from table

Last Action Date: May 1, 2024

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Anti-Gunner's: This is the 264th mass shooting this year. Yes, 264 mass shootings in less than a year :: 10/02/2015

A few facts to arm thoughtful people when confronting gun defenders.  All the gun defenders once again have come out to spout their meaningless cliches defending the undefendable.

Here are a few facts, however, to help arm thoughtful people in arguing with the charitably uninformed masses:

  • This is the 264th mass shooting this year. Yes, 264 mass shootings in less than a year.
  • Firearms kill 33,000 people every year. 
  • Every 6 hours in America more people die from gun violence than were killed by terrorists in all of 2014. If a disease like Ebola was killing as many people as guns there would be rioting in the streets to cure it.
  • In the last 30 years there has never been a single instance of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy intent on killing a bunch of people... 30 years.
  • In the last 50 years, half of the world's mass shootings have occurred in the U.S.
  • The U.S is the most armed country in the world. 
  • We have as many guns as people and 1/3 of the populace owns at least one.
  • Nearly half of all civilian guns in the world are held by Americans.
  • Besides bombs and chemical weapons, guns are the most efficient killing machines. Bombs and chemical weapons are illegal.
  • The second amendment was written by slave-holding men who carried muskets to protect themselves from tyranny and from their slaves. A musket took over 10 seconds to reload for a single shot.

The second amendment does guarantee the right to bear arms for a "well-regulated" militia.

So far there is very little regulation and a lot of guns.

The founders allowed for laws that regulate gun ownership.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/facts-gun-violence-guns-in-america-2nd-amendment-6544647.php