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hunter

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5. You have a nicer mom than I do.

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 04:51 PM

Jun 2016

As a kid I saw my mom take guns from strangers.

If she broke a fool's fingers, well good, maybe the fools would remember.

I hope my mom's fully retired from that sort of business now, but I'm afraid to ask.

My mom's mom had to be removed from her home as a danger to herself and others. She was cussing, throwing things, hitting, kicking, and biting the police and paramedics in a standoff that lasted hours.

My mom had taken all my grandma's guns years before and destroyed them, but we found another gun hidden in her house later.

I like to think my grandma had decided not to shoot anyone, but it's possible she simply hadn't remembered where she'd hid her last gun.

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So, my 86-year-old Mom phoned today about gun violence. [View all] TygrBright Jun 2016 OP

That seems like a reasonable regulation that wouldn't infringe on anyone's rights gratuitous Jun 2016 #1

The only problem I see is that the 9/11 terrorists took the time to learn to fly planes passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #9

No solution is going to be 100% gratuitous Jun 2016 #12

I agree that every step helps passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #14

The comparison between guns and cars is completely insane. Initech Jun 2016 #2

Yes. Cars are actually useful for something. Crunchy Frog Jun 2016 #6

Exactly! passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #15

I like your mom. alot irisblue Jun 2016 #3

Sure will. She's pretty great. Thanks! n/t TygrBright Jun 2016 #4

You have a nicer mom than I do. hunter Jun 2016 #5

The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights don't guarantee any right to keep and bear cars. AlbertCat Jun 2016 #7

2Amend. makes our Constitituion a suicide pact ErikJ Jun 2016 #8

Registration of firearms would not violate Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #10

Perhaps not TeddyR Jun 2016 #18

The same way we do everything..... Laws. Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #21

And if I don't? TeddyR Jun 2016 #22

You pay the price if you fail to obey. Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #23

Ok TeddyR Jun 2016 #24

maybe not stopping a shooting just tracking the evil into a history irisblue Jun 2016 #26

It leaves a trail. Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #27

"It's really not hard, except for the intentionally obtuse." Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #29

"Sell a weapon in an improper way and someone uses that weapon to kill then the original owner has Lonusca Jun 2016 #31

Registration would make those laws much more effective. Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #32

How would registration do that? Lonusca Jun 2016 #37

Adam Laza's guns were registered. nt hack89 Jun 2016 #34

Keeping and bearing is not necessarily owning bigmonkey Jun 2016 #11

Keep means owning and storing with your other belongings. NT. NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #30

So if I bring a book home from the library I own it? Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #33

Only if you choose to illegally keep it. ManiacJoe Jun 2016 #35

non sequitur NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #38

So if you are part of a well regulated militia Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #39

No. NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #40

So keep does not mean owning then. Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #41

Again, non sequitur. nt NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #42

So if the terrorists had to buy insurance TeddyR Jun 2016 #13

guns that kill people are not all in the hands of terrorists passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #16

In other words TeddyR Jun 2016 #17

As I've already mentioned. passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #20

Fine TeddyR Jun 2016 #25

If the insurance is very expensive, and it should be, then yes! (ntxt) scscholar Jun 2016 #28

The insurance is very cheap. ManiacJoe Jun 2016 #36

LOL. aikoaiko Jun 2016 #19