Tracy Chapman Bang Bang Bang Lyrics sponsored links What you go and do You go and give the boy a gun Now there ain't place to run to Ain't no place to run to When he hold it in his hand He feel mighty he feel strong Now there ain't no place to run to Ain't no place to run One day he may come back Repay us for what we've done Then where you gonna run to Where you gonna run But one fine day All our problems will be solved Bang bang bang We'll shoot him down Give him drugs and give him candy Anything to make him think he's happy And he won't ever come for us He won't ever come But if he does And if there's no one else around Bang bang bang We'll shoot him down If he preys only on his neighbors Brothers sisters and friends We'll consider it a favor We'll consider justice done But if he comes for you or me And we can place a gun in his hand Bang bang bang We'll shoot him dead What you go and do You go and give the boy a gun Now there ain't no place to run to Ain't no place to run
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Questions pour la vidéo US gun debate: Guns in numbers Image copyright Getty Images US President Barack Obama has announced a series of proposals to reduce gun violence, ranging from a proposed ban on military-style assault weapons to universal background checks. The proposals to tighten gun controls follows the shooting of 20 children and seven women by lone gunman Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution protects the right of citizens "to keep and bear arms". However, restrictions on lawful gun ownership vary by state. On Tuesday, New York passed gun control laws that supporters say are now the tightest in the nation. In Arizona, handguns can be bought with an instant background check and carried without a permit (in certain places), whereas in Illinois, special ID is required and concealed weapons are unlawful. The vast majority of states do not require rifles or shotguns to be registered and no permit is needed to buy or carry them. They ranged from a semi-automatic rifle to hand guns.
US told its gun culture is based on myth The gut belief of many Americans that gun ownership has been central to their way of life since colonial days is a 20th century invention, says a book published in the US this week. There are currently estimated to be more than 250m firearms in private hands and every year 5m new guns are being bought - overwhelmingly by white men aged between 25 and 34. More than 16,000 people are shot dead each year on average. Those who oppose the introduction of tough laws restricting firearms argue that widespread access to such weapons is part of America's gun-toting militia history before, during and after the independence revolution that began in 1775. Not so, says Michael Bellesiles of Emory university in Atlanta, Georgia, in a book which, according to a New York Times review this week, "deflates the myth of the self-reliant and self-armed virtuous yeoman of the revolutionary militias". Prof Bellesiles says this image is almost wholly false. … we have a small favour to ask.
America's deadly devotion to guns At an organising breakfast for National Rifle Association (NRA) grassroots activists, Samuel Richardson, a man with whom I have not exchanged a word, passes me a note. "Please read the book Injustice by Adams," it reads. "He was [sic] lawyer for US Justice Department who prosecuted Black Panther Case." Quite why Richardson thinks this book is for me is not clear. J Christian Adams, a former department of justice lawyer, resigned after the department decided not to prosecute members of the New Black Panther party who brandished guns and intimidated poll watchers outside a voting station in Philadelphia in 2008. Richardson goes further. It would be easy to ridicule the NRA. But America's relationship with guns is as deep and complex at home as it is perplexing abroad. "All the domestic controversies of the Americans at first appear to a stranger to be incomprehensible or puerile," suggested the 19th-century French chronicler Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America.
Jack Johnson - Cookie Jar Lyrics I would turn on the tv But it's so embarrassing To see all the other people I don't know what they mean And it was magic at first When they spoke without sound But now this world is gonna hurt You better turn that thing down Turn it around Well it wasn't me says the boy with the gun Sure i pulled the trigger but it needed to be done Because life's been killin' me ever since it begun You can't blame me cause i'm too young You can't blame me, sure the killer was my son But i didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun It's the killing on his tv screen You can't blame me, it's those images he sees Well, you can't blame me says the media man Well i wasn't the one that came up with the plan And i just point my camera at what the people wanna see Man it's a two-way mirror and you can't blame me It was you It was me It was every man We all got the blood on our hands We only receive what we demand And if we want hell then hell is what we'll have
businessinsider Culture - Sundance 2016: Under the Gun explores firearms in the US The Sundance documentary Under the Gun dives into the debate about guns in the US, and hearing that description might make you think you don’t want to see it. Mass shootings, background checks, gun shows, the National Rifle Association: those buzzwords – do they ever leave the news feed? – can, by now, be wearying. The sheer omnipresence of the debate can make it seem like you’ve heard all the arguments before, and that there’s nothing new to learn. Under the Gun, though, opens your eyes– and not just because it brings you close to the families of some of the victims from the Newtown and Aurora massacres in the US. Guns are fast food in the US, offering a cheap meal of sensory abandon Under the Gun presents two shocking facts. But here’s the real jaw-dropper from the film. Bullet points Under the Gun reveals that the system, in other words, is engineered to operate in slow motion. They’ve turned life into a Dirty Harry movie, and politics into a cult of firearms
'The NRA didn't tolerate dissent well': how the gun lobby stays on-message A few days after the murder of nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Mike Rosen joined the National Rifle Association. Rosen, an elected member of the Portland public schools board, has never so much as fired a real gun let alone owned one. But he was frustrated that, for all the talk of tighter gun control after each mass killing in the US, nothing changed because of the power of the NRA. “I was really impressed by what Obama said in his address to the nation. “I keep hearing that there are people in the NRA who want gun control and I have friends that are NRA members who own guns and want gun control. The first obstacle to Rosen’s strategy was the reaction of liberal friends. “It was like I had gone to the enemy camp. Public opinion is divided. Rosen soon discovered a much greater impediment to reform of the organisation from within. For a start, only life members and those who have been in the NRA for five years or more can vote in its elections. The illusion of choice
America's gun problem, explained On Sunday, it happened again: another mass shooting in America. This time, a gunman killed at least three people in the Jacksonville Landing area in Florida. Already, the mass shooting has given rise to new calls for gun control laws. “We don’t want your thoughts & prayers,” the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence tweeted. “We want you voted out of office for your negligence and apathy toward American gun violence.” But if this plays out like the aftermath of past mass shootings, from Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 to Las Vegas in 2017, the chances of Congress taking major action on guns is very low. This has become an American routine: After every mass shooting, the debate over guns and gun violence starts up once again. So why is it that for all the outrage and mourning with every mass shooting, nothing seems to change? 1) America’s gun problem is completely unique No other developed country in the world has anywhere near the same rate of gun violence as America.