Maine needs to tighten gun laws to prevent illegal sales

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Without mandatory checks on private sales from ads and at gun shows, the problem will only get worse.

CUMBERLAND — In light of the recent “open carry rally” in Portland (where firearms were openly displayed), it might be of interest to review the gun situation in Maine.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandra Scully of Cumberland Foreside is vice president of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence ([email protected]).


Maine has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the country and a higher rate of death from firearms than Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and six other states.

About 13 children and 100 adults die in Maine each year from firearms. The most recent data from the Maine Center for Disease Control show that the suicide rate for people ages 20 to 24 is 30 percent above the national average, and firearms account for more than 50 percent of these deaths.

It is legal for a 16-year-old (with parental permission) to buy a rifle and an 18-year-old, a handgun. Drinking is legal at 21 and a driver’s license at 16.

Maine is the No. 1 supplier of guns used in crimes in Massachusetts.

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It's not fair to lump in suicide data with handgun violence, it seems like people who want to kill themselves will find an alternate method, as they do in other countries like Japan which have no handguns available.
 
It's not fair to lump in suicide data with handgun violence, it seems like people who want to kill themselves will find an alternate method, as they do in other countries like Japan which have no handguns available.

Figures are out dated, but I have no reason to suspect that even if they were more recent that they would change very much...

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12 year old pole to prove a point. How about deaths from: knives, cars, chainsaws, alcohol, doctors, etc.. It doesn't matter these libretards make up numbers and statistics to appeal to their group of mental midgets and suck in the uninformed voters and would be donors who probably couldn't pass a background check anyway. It would be an interesting pole to learn about the make up of these 88% who are in favor of stricter gun laws, I'm breaking out the crayolas
 
Maybe she should be more concerned about why people in her state are killing themselves and less concerned about pushing her friggin agenda fo gun control.

The group I work with – Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence – is very respectful of hunters and target shooters. These people, for the most part, are responsible citizens who do not abuse their right to have firearms.

So apparently all the other gun owners are irresponsible citizens who abuse their right to have firearms??
 
63% of motor vehicle fatalities in 2008 were perpetrated by sober drivers. We need to increase the number of drunk drivers on the road.

Source.

Statistics, as reported by just about any special interest group, are complete bunk.
 
It's not fair to lump in suicide data with handgun violence, it seems like people who want to kill themselves will find an alternate method, as they do in other countries like Japan which have no handguns available.

They will do it until people start calling them on it.
 
MaineCWP said...
Why were my comments removed contradicting the editorial with factual sources that the NRA, Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, Sportsmen’s Alliance of Maine and the Department of Justice? Paul J. Mattson NRA Certified Instructor / RSO #63731855 Maine CWP Training 101 Main St. Harrison, ME 04040 (207) 583-4723 CELL 232-7063 www.MaineCWPtraining.com

They just don't like the facts~
 
Without mandatory checks on private sales from ads and at gun shows, the problem will only get worse.

CUMBERLAND — In light of the recent “open carry rally” in Portland (where firearms were openly displayed), it might be of interest to review the gun situation in Maine.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandra Scully of Cumberland Foreside is vice president of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence ([email protected]).


Maine has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the country and a higher rate of death from firearms than Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and six other states.

So this means Maine ranks #40 out of the 50 states for gun deaths.
Bottom 20% in this catagory is pretty damn good.
Would those six other unmentioned states happen to be among those with much more restrictive gun laws such as Illinois and California?

About 13 children and 100 adults die in Maine each year from firearms. The most recent data from the Maine Center for Disease Control show that the suicide rate for people ages 20 to 24 is 30 percent above the national average, and firearms account for more than 50 percent of these deaths.

If someone really wants to commit suicide, the lack of a gun never stops them. It just makes it quicker and easier. Maine still has rope, poison and bridges, are these next to be banned?


It is legal for a 16-year-old (with parental permission) to buy a rifle and an 18-year-old, a handgun. Drinking is legal at 21 and a driver’s license at 16.

I believe that federal law still requires a person to be 21 to buy a handgun.
You can gift a handgun to someone under 21, but they still can't buy one from an FFL.

The comments to this are pretty good, but I don't know if this guy is joking or not:

d2U%3D said...

What we need is to confiscate all guns and put police on every street corner. With police everywhere to protect us there would be no need for individual gun ownership. Hunters could go to their local police department and rent long guns for hunting, but with commercial meat production there really is no need for the barbaric act of hunting. We as a society have progressed past the need for firearms in the hand of anyone except properly trained government agents. A police state is a free state.

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They just don't like the facts~

If you put all that personal info for you and your business- that is probably why they removed it.
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Edit: Looks like the personal info stayed.

They just HAD to remove any factual info that would make the writers of the article look like kooks.
 
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I believe you can also buy a handgun from a personal sale at 18, but then comes the part where you have to know the person well enough to confirm they are not a felon or restricted.
 
Maine's suicide issue is probably more economic than anything else. By all means though, keep using that gun red herring and advancing the socialist agenda, see where that gets you, damn moonbats.
 
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