Gun Groups Declare Newtown Massacre Anniversary "Guns Save Lives Day"

[onehandle]

Source: Sacramento Bee



A trio of pro-gun groups has come together to declare December 14, the one-year anniversary of last year's horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, "Guns Save Lives Day." Because when you think about all the people saved by America's many, many handguns and rifles and shotguns, what springs to mind but the day when 26 innocent people—20 of them children—were slaughtered with guns?

According to a press release issued jointly by the Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and DefendGunRights.com, Guns Save Lives Day is dedicated to reminding people that "crazy people, criminals and gun control extremists prefer unarmed victims."

"The event is designed to counteract what certainly will be a day of activism and misinformation from the gun prohibition lobby," Larry Ward, founder of DefendGunRights.com, says. "We wanted to ensure that the public has the facts on gun rights and understand how many Americans stand with them in defense of Second Amendment rights."

My initial thought upon seeing the Guns Save Lives Day press release and website was that the whole thing was an elaborate hoax, a subtle scam put on by a political prank group like the Yes Men. There's no way gun advocates are clueless enough to sponsor a pro-gun day on the anniversary of the Newtown tragedy, especially not with a logo that uses a handgun to make the letter L, right? Wrong.

Read more: http://gawker.com/gun-groups-declare-newtown-massacre-anniversary-guns-s-1443909235

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Lemmings wheel-chairing to the sea...

[wilt the stilt]

1. It really says more on how our country's culture

and respect has completely broken down.

[geomon666]

2. Read this earlier

I don't know if I want to puke or put my fist through the wall. Maybe both.

[LibDemAlways]

3. This tells me that there are people out there

who are completely devoid of a single ounce of human decency -- and proud to flaunt it.

[DrDan]

27. completely!

this is simply unbelievable.

[srican69]

4. This is like AlQaeda declaring 9/11 to be 'Extremist Islam saves lives' day.

Fucking bastards...

[stevenleser]

49. I want to use that!!!! nt

[srican69]

55. be my guest!!

[samsingh]

58. agreed.

[Hoyt]

5. One reason I'm opposed to guns in public, is that the losers that love them are callous

people. Good enough reason to restrict them.

[Snake Plissken]

6. Ted Cruz will call for a moment of prayer that day so the Senate Chapin can bless the guns and ammo

[stevenleser]

50. I want to use that too!!!! nt

[BlueJazz]

7. I think we should have a "Depleted Uranium Day" It would be so joyous and just marvelous!

We could even have U-235 POPs for the Kiddies. What Fun !!

[nolabear]

8. You know, honestly, things are beginning to defy all reason.

I know we talk a lot here about the craziness out there, but there's no need whatsoever for this kind of meanness. It doesn't help any cause, it doesn't accomplish a damned thing, and it will cause a world of pain to the families of those children. Pain and rage. It's as though they want to be hated so they can feel more isolated and put upon.

You hear about the power of mass delusion, but I swear this is it in action. They have to believe something-god knows what-is worth spitting on the graves of those kids.

Unbelievable.

[Snake Plissken]

9. actually this does not defy reason at all,

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jensenko/the-brainwashing-of-my-dad-documentary

Billionaires spent an awful lot of money to program these sheep to behave his way, fortunately it's beginning to backfire on them and their freakshows have turned into a frankenstein and are dragging the entire GOP down with them.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. We have a deep national psychosis. nt

[Nay]

28. This country has lost its mind. If my kid and grandkid didn't live here, I

wouldn't give this horror of a place a backwards glance as I left.

[BainsBane]

10. The idea that guns make society safer has been proved false

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Medicine
http://www.amjmed.com/article/PIIS0002934313004440/fulltext

[Scootaloo]

14. Science doesn't ever stymiethe religious

And make no mistake, the "gun culture" of the United States is as much a religion as the cargo cults of the south seas.

[BainsBane]

17. Yes, I have said it serves as religion for some time

facts and evidence mean nothing to gun cultists.

[Snake Plissken]

26. The Earth has also been proven to be old than 6,000 years

And it has also been proven that poor people do not get rich by giving their money to rich people aka 'Reaganomics'

But that doesn't stop conservatives from believing that mythology.

[Doctor_J]

38. you're going to believe a left wing rag like the ajm????

[Scootaloo]

59. Curse you, Poe's Law! n/t

[rrneck]

40. You might find this book interesting.

Just finished the audiobook. He makes a strong case for the benefits of Enlightenment thinking and the role of women if the advancement of peace.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

[rrneck]

41. You might find this book interesting.

Pinker makes a strong case for the role of Enlightenment thinking and the role of women in the decline of violence.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

[CBHagman]

11. Here's one of the groups, which I found...

...thanks to the New York Daily News.

The Second Amendment Foundation's press release on "Guns Save Lives" Day, which of course doesn't mention that the first victim of the Newtown shootings on December 14th, 2012, was the legal owner of the guns that would be used to kill 20 first graders and six Sandy Hook Elementary School staffers.

[url]http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=456[/url]

[Lobo27]

12. The RW we love you while you're in the womb, but after that

we hope something kills you. What it might be doesn't matter as long as you suffer.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Fuck them sideways with an AR-15.

Motherfucking child-hating gun fools.

[liberalhistorian]

62. Except that they'd probably

actually enjoy that, unfortunately! Motherfuckers should go off and start their own damn country, the United States of Gun Nuts.

[gopiscrap]

15. these fuckers need to crawl back into the sewer from where they came

[mbperrin]

16. Just when you think there had to be a limit to stupidity and meanness.

I stand corrected.

I wish these miscreants ill.

[alp227]

18. Eww. Typical gun humpers.

I can't forget about this 2007 Pat Bagley toon:

[seattle15]

53. I don't think the causing suicide thing is mentioned often enough

"A gun in the home increases the likelihood of suicide fivefold."

[awoke_in_2003]

19. Reccing so more people see this insanity. nt

[cosmicone]

21. How about kamakazis save the lives day instead of pearl harbor day?

or "nukes save lives" day on the anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki?

Gundamentalists live in a bizarro world.

[Iggo]

45. Hang around here on Aug 6th.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. Maybe they could hold a joint celebration with Fred Phelps.

[SunSeeker]

23. Unfuckingbelievable. nt

[MarchemintotheSea]

24. Coming up next they will recreate the slaughter at the school as part of the days festivities!

Sick fuckers!

[OldRedneck]

25. And how do they propose to celebrate on 12/14??

How do they propose to celebrate . . . kill 20 6-yr olds?

[intaglio]

29. Some of the Gawker comments are priceless

One time, I was texting and driving and the gun told me to put down my phone, right before some nuns started to cross the street.
gunssavelives

One time, a big burly black man walked past me on the same side of the sidewalk and I had a heart attack from fear, and my gun happened to have a defibrillator nearby.

#gunssavelives

This one time, I couldn't allow the bus to go below 50 mph or it would explode and the gun rested on the gas pedal just enough to keep it there.
gunssavelives

Once, when I was a kid, I got really sick. My Mom didn't bother taking me to a doctor, even though I had a fever of 106. She bought me a hunting rifle, and I got well.
gunssavelives

I was in a horrible car accident once, and was trapped in my burning vehicle bleeding profusely. A Gun Samaritan came out of nowhere, pulled me from the wreckage, dragged me to safety, controlled my bleeding, and covered me with spent shell casings and abbreviated copies of the Second Amendment to keep me warm until the paramedics arrived.

I heard later the Gun Samaritan went over and shot the person who caused the accident to death, thereby preventing this person from ever causing another accident like this again. Sadly, this Gun Samaritan left the scene without giving anyone its name. So if you're reading this, please reply and so I can repay your selfless act of kindness and violence. Until then, I'll keep a tattered, bloody piece of paper bearing the words "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" taped to my bathroom mirror as a daily reminder of my debt to you.
gunssavelives

[Hoyt]

35. Those are great. LMAO.

[toby jo]

30. America's very own Holy War.

[AngryOldDem]

31. Are they going to have a parade through Newtown, too?

Nothing surprises me anymore with these people.

They totally disgust me -- turning a tragedy around for their own selfish purposes.

[Blandocyte]

32. Guns don't kill people but guns save lives?

WTFnF?

[Iggo]

44. Egg-zack-lee.

[lunasun]

33. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[stillcool]

34. ouch...

That's lots of salt in a very big wound. I guess that's why they do it.

[denvine]

36. Sick bastards!

[heaven05]

37. typical RW Amerikkkan response

to a shameful evil act of murder. Will they ever see the light? I'll answer that. NO! geez

[Doctor_J]

39. using the same pr firm as Raphael Cruz

[Comrade Grumpy]

42. Well, that PR stunt is stunning in its audacity, and cluelessness.

[Iggo]

43. Celebrating the massacre of children.

Sounds about right.

Keep it up, gun-fuckers.

[Fumesucker]

46. I wouldn't be much surprised if we were to get a copycat Newtown style killing spree on that day

These people have gone nuts and there's really no predicting what crazy people will do.

[Sunlei]

47. what are these 3 groups more freeloader (tax free groups?) shills for the NRA?

Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and DefendGunRights.... = jerks

[sakabatou]

48. WTF?!

[neverforget]

51. Guns save lives on a day when 26 people were killed by 1 guy with a gun.

Fucking lunatics.

[VanillaRhapsody]

52. I just threw up in my mouth a little....serious

that's the penultimate of poor taste.

[valerief]

54. Disgusting! nt

[DissidentVoice]

56. The Wild, Wild West

This shows that way too many in this country still think that John Wayne's version of The Wild, Wild West still exists.

[samsingh]

57. these people are disgusting and completely stupid.

[truthisfreedom]

60. And our reaction is... December 13 is now known as "Guns End Lives Day". Just one day before they

celebrate violent death as a way of life.

[tabasco]

63. Sick fucks

'nuff said.

[wordpix]

64. insane and dangerous, too

[struggle4progress]

65. This will help us all remember the anniversary of the Newtown Massacre

[Blue_Tires]

66. Well let's be honest; they've been doing this in one form or another since Columbine

no big shock here...