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In reply to the discussion: Its time for Democrats to drop the gun control platform [View all]Straw Man
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Your first link takes me to a story about a vigilante shooting in a Home Depot parking lot. In any case, I'm sure the NRA has tweeted many egregious things, but they weren't the topic of discussion, were they?
Interesting "Wild West" links, but none that prove your contention that any of these attempts were successful in creating a less violent society than the one we live in today. Oh, and by the way, open carry is banned in many states today, probably affecting a larger portion of the territory and population than was covered by the individual municipal ordinances that you are referring to.
Your opinions may very well be supported, but it's incumbent on you to provide that support to the reader; that's how this discussion thing works.
You realize that this is only after the gun has fallen into police hands, generally after being used in a crime. And yet still traceable via the bound book of the dealer who sold it, unless the serial number has been defaced, as criminals sometimes do. But in many cases it will only lead back to the person it was stolen from or to "some guy on the corner," one of the many sets of hands it passed through on its way to the crime. We could pursue straw-purchase traffickers at the source, using their perjured 4473 forms after a failed buy attempt. But we don't, again calling into doubt our real dedication to combatting gun violence.
I'm sure criminals have all kinds of ways of rationalizing their behavior. They are still criminals. I don't "think" so; I know so.