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In reply to the discussion: sensible gun control [View all]hack89
(39,171 posts)48. Except if one is willing to commit serious felonies like murder or drug distribution
Last edited Thu Jun 23, 2016, 04:21 PM - Edit history (1)
then being charged with owning an unregistered gun is not going to be a deterrent. Do you think Adam Lanza gave a shit about gun control laws?
There are three types of people using guns to kill:
1. Suicides.
2. Felons.
3. Crazy mass killers.
Registration is irrelevant to the first two and the third group doesn't care. How exactly is registration going to reduce gun deaths?
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The Gun Lobhy has no control over where the DOJ chooses to focus enforcement and prosecutions
Lee-Lee
Jun 2016
#20
The terrorist-loving gun lobby controls the fascist GOP, the GOP controls Congress,
baldguy
Jun 2016
#24
Your data is correct, though it is given little credence by the controllers...
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#64
And the car manufacturers lobby & car owners lobby work diligently to make cars safer.
baldguy
Jun 2016
#26
No one is asking for perfect safety. Just to make it a little less stupidly dangerous.
baldguy
Jun 2016
#31
The family of my childhood friend's parents had no idea he would hang himself either..
pipoman
Jun 2016
#83
well, let's just disappear every gun tomorrow then and we'll observe the effect on the suicide rate
maxsolomon
Jun 2016
#87
and yet RKBAs 'parrot' Kleck's BS 2.5 million DGU/year number to justify their fears
maxsolomon
Jun 2016
#57
+1. Jeeesus, George Zimmerman murdering Trayvon Martin is considered a Defensive Gun Use
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#82
The CDC did a study on defensive gun use in 2013 at the direction of President Obama
hack89
Jun 2016
#44
You know that meme about a gun in the home being more likely to harm was long ago discredited, right
Lee-Lee
Jun 2016
#41
I'd suggest skipping going to the grocery store or mall then. You'll find that you have a higher
Waldorf
Jun 2016
#85
Those words have been shown every time someone says "nobody is going to take your guns"
Lee-Lee
Jun 2016
#13
That's one I don't like either; I want 100% gun registration (or failing that at least for handguns)
Recursion
Jun 2016
#39
Felons and all others who can't legally own guns can't be required to register their guns.
hack89
Jun 2016
#45
Except if one is willing to commit serious felonies like murder or drug distribution
hack89
Jun 2016
#48
Of course DiFi was talking about "assault weapons", I bet she still says the same thing.
jmg257
Jun 2016
#36
Gun love is disgusting, like smoking. It ought to be treated as a public health hazard.
hunter
Jun 2016
#49
Hey hunter, the NRA is known for paying royalties for anti-gun cartoons for republishing.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#68
Heh, you make light of that "dark side" philosophers have discussed for milinia.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#80
"if you have the money you can buy one." How classist- and unconstitutional
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#60
Your clever plan has already been tried, and was blocked by way of printer's ink:
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#62
Calling something an "NRA talking point" is a knee-jerk retort, not a counterargument
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#67
With tens of millions of gun owners implacably opposed to it? Not very likely.
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#72
I've seen that happen when the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports showed that inconvenient truth
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#71
guess what? eventually, like the color of everybody's skin becoming cocoa-like,
Gabi Hayes
Jun 2016
#79