Boy pressed legislator on gun control, got exiled from Cub Scouts

[Morphine Prince 109,654]

When a group of Cub Scouts met with a Colorado state senator this month, they asked her about some of the most controversial topics in the nation: gun control, the environment, race and the proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico.

But questions from one Cub Scout, Ames Mayfield, 11, got him kicked out of his den in Broomfield, Colo., according to his mother, Lori Mayfield. At the meeting on Oct. 9, for which the scouts were told to prepare questions for State Senator Vicki Marble, Ms. Mayfield recorded her son asking the senator why she would not support “common-sense gun laws.”

“I was shocked that you co-sponsored a bill to allow domestic violence offenders to continue to own a gun,” Ames said in a question that took more than two minutes. He continued, “Why on earth would you want somebody who beats their wife to have access to a gun?”

The event took place not long after the Las Vegas shooting. As part of her answer, Ms. Marble, a Republican from Fort Collins, defended her position on gun ownership, saying that shootings in Las Vegas and Aurora, Colo.,happened in so-called gun-free zones, and that “the more guns a society has, the less crime or murders are committed.”

On Oct. 14, five days after the event with Ms. Marble, Ms. Mayfield was asked to meet the leader of the Cub Scout pack who oversees a number of dens in Broomfield, including the one Ames belonged to.

Ms. Mayfield and the pack leader, whom she did not identify, sat down at a Chipotle restaurant that afternoon. “He let me know in so many words that the den leader was upset about the topic of gun control,” Ms. Mayfield said in an interview on Saturday. “It was too politically charged.”

“He communicated that my son was no longer welcome back to the den,” she said.

Ms. Mayfield said the den leader’s response might have been fueled by her decision to post the videos of the senator’s interaction with the scouts online, where they were picked up by the local news media.

She also said she was told the den leader had been upset by other references in Ames’s long question, such as pointing out that the senator was a Republican and that gun ownership was considered a right while health care was seen as a privilege.

[Qualle1 1,385]

"The more guns a society has, the less crime or murders are committed.”

[Morphine Prince 109,654]

4 minutes ago, Qualle1 said:

"The more guns a society has, the less crime or murders are committed.”

And yet the US murder rate is much higher than other developed countries where guns aren’t so easily accessible

 

 

[littlepotter 76,610]

9 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

And yet the US murder rate is much higher than other developed countries where guns aren’t so easily accessible

you sound like they actually listen to facts

[Supersonic 49,376]

So when are the gun freaks gonna show up to this thread and derail it again?

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Americans for decades are ingrained in their sick minds it's a RIGHT to own a gun cuz an old Brown piece of paper told them...it's not. Even with the worst mass shooting in US history, it won't change cuz it would need to be removed from the constitution. 

Even if you did that, there would be riots and gun-crazed Americans fighting to have the "right" back and illegal attainment of guns would ensue...

It's a no-win sitation...America is a violent-loving nation.

[sillynate 6,170]

On 10/23/2017 at 9:37 AM, TimisaMonster said:

Americans for decades are ingrained in their sick minds it's a RIGHT to own a gun cuz an old Brown piece of paper told them...it's not. Even with the worst mass shooting in US history, it won't change cuz it would need to be removed from the constitution. 

Even if you did that, there would be riots and gun-crazed Americans fighting to have the "right" back and illegal attainment of guns would ensue...

It's a no-win sitation...America is a violent-loving nation.

How is it not? 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

1 hour ago, sillynate said:

How is it not? 

It's not a RIGHT to own a gun...

[sillynate 6,170]

40 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

It's not a RIGHT to own a gun...

And why do you say that? 

[ALGAYDO 35,074]

On 10/23/2017 at 6:43 AM, Morphine Prince said:

She also said she was told the den leader had been upset by other references in Ames’s long question, such as pointing out that the senator was a Republican and that gun ownership was considered a right while health care was seen as a privilege.

OhMyGod imagine an 11-year-old calling you out like this, making you look like the dumbf*ck that you are, and then getting so upset about the facts that you BAN said 11-year-old 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

24 minutes ago, sillynate said:

And why do you say that? 

How does a person being born in this country give them an automatic "right" to own a gun???

[PartySick 172,477]

36 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

How does a person being born in this country give them an automatic "right" to own a gun???

200 years ago when guns took 20+ seconds to load, were wildly inaccurate, and hard-ish to come by, lawmakers decided to give civilians the right to form armed militias to defend against government tyranny, foreign attackers, etc. These days that outdated "right" has been turned into any private civilian has the "right" to own a weapon capable of mowing down an entire crowd with minimal regulation, unreliable background checks, and little to no waiting time depending on the state you live in.

'Murica

[Economy 52,843]

On 2017-10-23 at 9:50 AM, Qualle1 said:

"The more guns a society has, the less crime or murders are committed.”

I was gonna quote this same sentence 😂

[Pacify Him 9,073]

It’s quite simple: murders, terrorism, wars etc all factor in the economy of America

No ban on smoking — especially since it contains a drug

and definitely no ban on guns either