Peems wrote:
Buses and guns are not similar. I like all your hypotheticals too, and I sure do love how we jumped all the way to the immigrants!!
"Gun ownership isn't some inalienable right granted by God. Remember, the Constitution was written by men coming out of a long and bloody war near the end of the 18th century. It was written for their time.
It also included the "right" to own a human being.
Things change.
Folks evolve.
I want a voluntary federal buyback program for firearms, with hunting weapons and vintage/historic weapons exempt. I want the sale of weapons to be even more tightly controlled than the sale of Xanax and other controlled substances. I want advertising for firearms to be as regulated as DTC (direct to consumer) advertising for pharmaceuticals ("May cause shortness of breath, long-lasting boners, etc.") We can do all of this. It'll likely create jobs, believe it or not: regulators, educators, enforcers.
It will not end murder. It won't end rape or robbery either. It will make it harder to commit those crimes. There will be a black market for guns as there is for any coveted item in a capitalist society. (And I'm not anti-capitalism, btw. I'm a big fan! Sorry, hippies. I do love you guys, by the way, you're very nice people with good instincts.)
Continuing education credits for gun owners should be required, just as they are with medical professionals.
When you have a greater ability to take a human life, you have a greater responsibility to prove your fitness to wield the tools that may create that end."
YOUR. WHOLE. POST. JUMPS. THE. SHARK.
It seems as though you are willing to let your fear rule the day and trade everyone else's freedom for your security (your physical safety and your hurt wittle feewings when you see something bad and demand that SOMETHING must be done...you must have the government protect you from those big, bad GUNS).
Folks evolve? Really? Than why do we have animals turning their city blocks into war zones, in our first world country? How effing evolved is that?
We have people looting, raping, and killing all over this country each and every day. Man, that is some serious evolution.
You think one of those mouth breathing clown posse idiots would think twice about stealing a gun? You think people can't get illegal guns? Arms are smuggled in to every corner of this planet...across our border that you and your President don't want to bother to guard. It is big business and it isn't going to stop.
Did Timothy McVeigh need a gun to kill 168 people? That door has been opened and it ain't closing...EVER. IEDs are coming our way. Muslin extremists are coming our way. And yet you want to make it really hard for people to own a simple hand gun...when there are already tens of millions of them out there.
Bad guys can get guns easily...your regulations won't stop that. It will, however, delay normal people from getting guns. Tell you what...why don't you go pay a visit to the relatives of Carol Browne...the woman who was killed while waiting for her background check to clear.
And you think a more regulated background check for guns will actually reduce gun murders? Haven't several cities had buy backs? How's that gone? We initiated prohibition...how effective was that? We have an all out war on drugs and poverty...with all of those gubmint regulator/educator and enforcement jobs...how is that going?
Why don't you focus on the real problem? People. How do you intend to fix people?
Are you making plans to identify whack jobs? Once identified, what do you do with them? Lock them up? Medicate them?
What are your brilliant plans to address the real problem?
