Delta May Lose Tax Break Over NRA Stance

I would like to thank Robert Hanson for his follow up on ( too many guns create a wild west future.) Your facts are wright on the mark. I honestly believe owning a gun and especially when conceal carrying it is a conscious reflex that you don't want any accidents or do anything stupid to cause a disturbance. it kind of reminds as if I am being watched by a camera at a store, It makes me behave just a little better, My point is that good people are very safe . Look at N.R.A.EVENTS . Thousands of people attend and there are never any shootings there, G I WONDER WHY. This also holds true to the malisia in Switzerland, It would be suicidal to start shooting at a group meeting. Before I leave I would like to mention the town of KENNESAW ,GEORGIA, It is mandatory to keep a gun in your house for protection and the crime rate from gun violence has been almost 0 for ( two decades). Responsible gun owners get respect .Thank you,Mark.

Mark's remark at March 4, 2018 at 11:00 pm Said it all. Totally agreed! Gun safety is agreed by all, but please do not interject political views into the discussion, as many others did.

Hi Dana, I am fortunate to live in a relatively safe state where you seldom hear of gun violence. deaths from drunk drivers are common news. I come from a lengthy background of family owned gunmakers, gunsmiths who were very professional in there skills, mostly sporting guns so I have a deep respect for guns and gun ownership. The idea of smart guns has-been around for awhile just nothing of this magnitude where it won't fire in certain zones, I thought this might be a place for the kids to focus some of there energy seeing where nothing else works and criminals don't obey gun laws, Electronics are killing our heritage and creating a younger generation like nothing I have ever seen , Maybe electronics can save lives too. You are also correct about religion being hijacked , It is just a excuse to commit murder nothing more. We just had a 10 year old girl get beat to death by her parents and no guns were used . The parents weapon of choice were straps and clubs . This is another example of a different system failing a child. So sad. We need to elect people who are smart enough to fix our failing systems and not focus on objects that people have becouse it will never stop just like alcohol and drug abuse. Find the mentally ill and take them off the street. Be safe and if you ever decide to conceal carry get some additional training after the conceal carry coarse, It can make all the difference. Thanks and I hope I have been of some help, Mark. l

@ Mark I read your response several times. It is horrific what happened to your brother and your family. And that there was purposeful interference by the state patrol adds another dimension of frustration and pain. I am very sorry. Other than Twitter, I have never, ever continued a commentary online. I don't know why I chose to reply to you, but I am glad that we have exchanged views on the NRA, gun safety, etc. Your familiarity with guns and those that carry, and the point that 95% of people would never use a gun unless it was a life or death situation, seems believable. (Although I don't know if you found that statistic somewhere or it's just your opinion. I hope it is higher than 95%) Many people I know have guns for either hunting or because of the work they do, or they are women who feel safer having a gun in the glove box. I don't fault any of them. Your commentary on religion and war is correct, but I would add that often religion is hijacked and used as an excuse for fighting and killing. If people didn't fight about religion, imagine what the Middle East would be like, along with the never-ending war in Afghanistan (the Taliban being an example of hijacking a religion.) Is your suggestion of a device that would limit the use of an assault rifle in certain areas something you have heard mentioned or your own idea? I have never heard it suggested before and it seems like it could work going forward, but it would require that all those who own such guns now would have to voluntarily modify their guns. I agree that the warning signs of the Parkland shooter were obvious, and civilians did what they could to warn the authorities, who were negligent. Perhaps instead of funding the cost of arming teachers, each community hires a task force with the sole purpose of identifying and monitoring those that hint at being a shooter, and make sure they do not have access to guns any longer. Unfortunately not all shooters show signs. Such as the Las Vegas shooter. Your comment on the first mass shootings were muslim theorists against churches and gay night clubs had me google a list of all mass shootings since 1982. There were others before, I don't know why they started with '82. But here is a link, there's no commentary, it is just a spreadsheet of information. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/ I'm not making any comments on it either, I found it interesting that so many of these I have already forgotten about. Sad. I won't be commenting on this thread anymore. It takes alot of time! I hope you never have to use your gun except for sport. Take care.

Hi Dana, sorry to hear of your tragedy. My brother died in 74 at the hands of two cars racing on a hill with two yellow lines and my brother was hit head on by the guy in the no passing lane, they were all drinking in the cars but the driver of the car had a farther who was a state trooper and was friends with the police on the seen. no sobriety test were given and the driver only got reckless homicide and had to pay my parents 10 grand, just enough to bury my bro. a couple years later they passed a new law that would have made it manslaughter so the driver got of easy. The drivers of both cars died several years later , the one that killed my bro died from heroin and the other decapitated himself behind the wheel when he hit a tree going about 100, They were both drunks and losers. Sadly my bro left no one behind, he was almost married when he was killed. Now, I don't know where your from but I live in a mostly rural area and everyone around here has tons of guns and most of them carry and you never hear of someone killing another because there having a bad day or a tiff. Don't forget the facts that the first mass shootings were by muslim theorist against churches and gay night clubs On top of that our kids are playing violent video games and getting brainwashed by fake news, Violent riots being started on purpose by socialist party lend a hand to the confusion. Also i think you would find that most of the people around you are gun owners and its not the wild west becouse 95 % of the population are not stupid enough to use a gun unless its a matter of life or death. Also , Almost every war ever commited was started over religion and who's is worthy of god and whats not and I know j.c walked the earth but to my knowledge no one has ever seen god in all its glory, so this means almost the whole world believes in what could be a fictional character and all the hatred could be for nothing? Who's crazy now, On a more serious note, With all the technology we have why hasn't some software engineered made a devise to go in a assault rifle that would keep it from firing in designated zones and have these zones controlled by gps like we do surveillance. I don't think the gun makers are that hard to convince if its for a good reason and it could be something both sides agree on. and why not put all this energy into holding the authoritys responsible for not stopping this from ever happening in the first place , They had the info, The N.R.A. Didn't let those kids down the state of FLORIDA did.