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Peter Parker wrote: What's that - a .22 snubnose?

Peter Parker wrote: What's that - a .22 snubnose?

You were supposed to be looking up and to the left in the photo; not bottom center.

wow, that is scary... Oh, man, they should ban all guns...

FreeEnterprise wrote: wow, that is scary... Oh, man, they should ban all guns...     Well , its a good thing they regulate other stuff, like drugs. We wouldn't want people to be able to take $5,000 down to the local corner and buy crack...   Oh, wait...   I bet the news network then took those weapons to mexico and gave them to drug dealers too...   That kind of article is why I dislike the media so much... The push for "more" laws, instead of just enforcing the laws on the books. Maybe if schools quit teaching relative morality, and focused on character and morals, we wouldn't have all these people enacting "survival of the fittest"...   And now that we have all these social miscreants, created by the lack of morals, and dismissal of moral law... Now, we want to harness that issue with more gun control... Yeah, that makes sense. Good thing they don't teach logic in schools.   Best thing we could do as a society is to arm all citizens. And train them how to use firearms to protect themselves from the nutjobs the schools are putting on the streets daily.   At the end of the day, if a criminal wants a gun, he will get a gun, just like if you want drugs, you get them.   While enacting more laws just restricts the law abiding citizens and puts them in harms way.

Peter Parker wrote: IMPULS3. wrote: How is it any different than buying a bunch of guns from private sellers out of the news paper?     Because of the results.   How long would it take to buy ten guns through newspaper classifieds?  How much of a paper trail would you leave in the process, and how many buyers would remember you when the cops called later?   By going to a gun show, this kid bought ten guns in an hour, with no paper trail and nearly complete anonymity.  That is exactly the scenario current laws are meant to stop.

If you buy the gun from a private individual at a gun show, they'd be likely to remember who they sold a gun to since if you sell more than 10 guns a year you need an FFL and to run background checks. I still fail to see how this is different than sales between individuals except for the setting.

EDIT: The article itself was an abomination, the only part that wasn't biased was that it mentioned that the gunmen bought his gun through a dealer but the state hadn't reported the mental illness aspect.


Edited by rednekk98 - 09 April 2009 at 4:43pm

FreeEnterprise wrote: Peter Parker wrote:   Ah, yes.  Non Sequiteurs 'R' Us.   Welcome.     I think you mean "non sequitur"   You might want to bust out the thesaurus when trying witty riposte...

Edited by Peter Parker - 09 April 2009 at 4:46pm

Mack wrote: Peter Parker wrote: What's that - a .22 snubnose? You were supposed to be looking up and to the left in the photo; not bottom center.

merc wrote: over paid, no laws broken. again i think all firearm transfers should be required to go through an FFL, but gunshow "loop hole" (dont like the term) is not getting around anything...

What Merc said. It isn't a loophole. In an hour you could probably phone everyone placing an ad to sell guns in an area.

So you got it in an hour. Big whoop. How is that any different than if you bought them over 4 hours? Or over a weekend? It isn't like you are going to buy a bunch of guns and start a killing spree within that hour.

You don't want to close a loop hole, you want to regulate private weapon sales.

KBK