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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
You really are seriously talking about legislating people and tracking them rather than legislating and tracking guns? Gary, a gun doesn't suffer if they are locked up, it doesn't have a civil liberties to violate. If you insist that a gun is tracked and registered, it won't consider itself as being treated unfairly. Its a gun. Not a person. I am sure that you don't consider it unreasonable to be expected to have a license to drive a car, or have to take a test to drive that car. After all, sometimes we have to take a bit of hit to protect others. If those others are children, then it really is a no brainer. You inconvenience yourself just a little, and if you any sense of responsibilty you stop whining and act like an adult. As far as I can see, all the pro-gun people in this debate are acting like self entitled whiny children who are having their favourite toy taken from them and throwing any excuse they can to keep what they consider their 'right'. All I hear is "mine, mine, mine". It is not pretty, and quite honestly, pretty disgusting when you consider the reason that people want to regulate guns in the first place. Reality Internet Personality |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Well said Esme. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Its not the honest gun owner. Its the crazys and the hoods. Take Chicago. Toughest gun lasw in the nation and yet they have more killed than in Afganastan every year. Why you ask. Because the state lets the perps walk. The police can frisk you on no cause and if they find weapons , they either dont prosacute or just wack your wrist and let you walk. How about any person who is found to have an illegal weapon , or uses one in a crime, or buys one for a known felon or a crazy gets 10 years right off the bat with no parole. A big step would be for a federal penalty not a state crime. Another thing that is BS is that you cant bring up a perps past criminal history when he goes to trial again. So the jury never knows that poor little Johnny has 10 prior arrests for using a gun in armed robberies. [/quote] Old James |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Ok, completely off topic, but...are you serious with that screen name, Guy?? Perhaps he should change it to David Koresh? Reality Internet Personality |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I am sure that you don't consider it unreasonable to be expected to have a license to drive a car, or have to take a test to drive that car. After all, sometimes we have to take a bit of hit to protect others. If those others are children, then it really is a no brainer. Again, you say one thing and use an example of the other. Do you need a drivers license to buy a car? NO! It is people you want to track, even if you can't see it. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Ok, completely off topic, but...are you serious with that screen name, Guy?? Grow up and stick with one screen name. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Interesting. 2 hang ups from an area code in TX. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Interesting. 2 hang ups from an area code in TX. if they weren't from India via VOIP -- pick your caller ID message |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Interesting. 2 hang ups from an area code in TX. My Obamaphone doesn't allow that. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Ok, completely off topic, but...are you serious with that screen name, Guy?? "Ask me politely to turn in all my assault weapons and to register all my other guns. Let's see how that works out." Again. David Koresh springs to mind. If you think my observation is hostile then what should we make of your threats to start shooting people who don't let you get your own way? How did that work out for David? Reality Internet Personality |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I am sure that you don't consider it unreasonable to be expected to have a license to drive a car, or have to take a test to drive that car. After all, sometimes we have to take a bit of hit to protect others. If those others are children, then it really is a no brainer. You need a license to use it, sure..and in the UK and Canada when you buy a car records are kept on who owns the vehicle. Which is not the case with private gun sales, which is part of the problem. So you are wrong. Cars are tracked. You also need to prove you are competent to use it. As it is hard to conceal and carry a car a license is sufficient to ensure that cars aren't used by people in an irresponsible way and that you are accountable for what you do with your car. Reality Internet Personality |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
You need a license to use it, sure..and in the UK and Canada when you buy a car records are kept on who owns the vehicle. Which is not the case with private gun sales, which is part of the problem. So you are wrong. Cars are tracked. Perhaps in the UK and Canada cars are only tracked. In the USA cars are taxed, an ad valorem tax. That is the reason for tracking, who do we send the tax bill to. I'm sure if some congress person were to slap an ad valorem tax on guns and thus require them to be tracked for tax purposes it would pass constitutional muster. As to the likelihood of passage, somewhere between zero and nil. However a federal law that just tracks guns will not pass constitutional muster. Now a state that does so as a part of a state militia law may very well pass muster. States however don't want militia's. You also need to prove you are competent to use it. As it is hard to conceal and carry a car a license is sufficient to ensure that cars aren't used by people in an irresponsible way and that you are accountable for what you do with your car. Are you telling me that car keys aren't concealable? Are you telling me that boozers don't drive? Are you telling me it is impossible to buy a car from a private party and never bother to have a license or register the car? Are you telling me it is impossible to steal a car? I don't think you are. If you are simply saying the car draws more visibility than the keys, then an bushmaster AR-15 with a 30 round magazine draws a lot more visibility than a lorcin l25, but which are you trying to ban? I don't think the NRA has an issue with gun safety classes. I think they offer them. Frankly I don't know of any NRA member who would want someone who is incompetent standing next to them at the firing line of the range. I don't think the NRA has an issue with limiting access to convicted felons. I don't think they have an issue with limiting access to "crazy" people. (Clear and present danger to themselves or others.) They have an issue with waiting periods. (Fund the check method for instant pass/fail.) Once you admit the real issue is a people control issue you will find there is a lot of common ground to build something sensible that can work to reduce access of weapons to persons who should not have them. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I am sure that you don't consider it unreasonable to be expected to have a license to drive a car, or have to take a test to drive that car. After all, sometimes we have to take a bit of hit to protect others. If those others are children, then it really is a no brainer. You have got to be kidding right? Cars are never used irresponsibly? Every time you read the news you read about some unlicensed, uninsured, unregistered ,uninspected or any combination you can think of. Has caused an accident and killed or maimed some innocent. I see how well regulations for cars and drivers works. [/quote] Old James |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I am sure that you don't consider it unreasonable to be expected to have a license to drive a car, or have to take a test to drive that car. After all, sometimes we have to take a bit of hit to protect others. If those others are children, then it really is a no brainer. Considering how many cars are on the road these regulations have worked extremely well. Gun deaths in America projected to soon top car fatalities "The fall in traffic deaths resulted from safer vehicles, restricted privileges for young drivers and seat-belt and other laws, he said. By contrast, "we've made policy decisions that have had the impact of making the widest array of firearms available to the widest array of people under the widest array of conditions." While fewer households have guns, people who own guns are buying more of them, he said." Practically every household in the US has a car, not every house hold has a gun, yet we are looking at gun deaths topping car deaths. Reality Internet Personality |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
If you do these things there is a chance that you will get caught and held accountable. There is no such accountability for guns. A bartender who allows a patron to leave his bar drunk and knowingly lets that person get into a car and drive will be in a hell of a lot of trouble. There are no laws against gun stores selling guns to drunk people. Are you telling me it is impossible to steal a car? I don't think you are. If you are simply saying the car draws more visibility than the keys, then an bushmaster AR-15 with a 30 round magazine draws a lot more visibility than a lorcin l25, but which are you trying to ban? Gary, people need cars to get from A to B. Almost everyone is America has a car. They are everywhere. If there weren't so many cars there would a huge, massive reduction in car thefts. For example, if we made cars illegal, there would be a massive drop in the amount of cars on the road. There would still be some of course because a small amount of the population will break the law, but the huge drop in the amount of cars availble will cause a massive drop in car deaths. There would also be a massive drop in illegal cars because there won't be so many cars around for people to steal. No cars => less car theft => less illegal cars in circulation => less deaths using legally owned cars and less deaths using illegally owned cars. It's simple math and applies even more directly to guns. Less guns. Less death by gun. I don't think the NRA has an issue with gun safety classes. I think they offer them. Frankly I don't know of any NRA member who would want someone who is incompetent standing next to them at the firing line of the range. The NRA are a bunch of nutcases who are in business of promoting gun ownership or profit. You go on about locking up crazies, but don't seem to be able to recognise them when you come across them. Reality Internet Personality |
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