Gun Legislation

[neoplacebo]

I don't know if it's a good idea to shoot into a tire at close range or
medium range, but that seemed like a better thing to try than to
fire at the car.

One should only shoot at tires with rubber bullets.

[Mr.B]

Maybe this was in S.C. too...?

[Mr.B]

Ain't figured out what started this, but I like how it ended!

Oops!.....I'm owned!

[neoplacebo]

Yesterday in Wheeling, West Virgina a shooter with an assault rifle let loose "about 20 rounds" at the Wheeling Federal Building and a YWCA buliding nearby before being shot and killed by police. It has been reported that the shooter was a former police officer. Another "good guy" with a gun. Imagine that.......

[Mr.B]

"Yesterday in Wheeling, West Virgina a shooter with an assault rifle let loose "about 20 rounds" at the Wheeling Federal Building and a YWCA building nearby before being shot and killed by police. It has been reported that the shooter was a former police officer. Another "good guy" with a gun. Imagine that......."

These idiots must have delusions of grandeur; such as their name being in a history book or something.
They're too coward to kill themselves outright; they've got to kill others first, then wait until they're cornered to kill themselves,
or be killed by a bullet from an LEO; as in "suicide by cop". Pathetic cowards.

[O Really]

In Nevada..."The shooter took a handgun from his parents, a federal law enforcement source who was briefed on the situation told CNN's Evan Perez." You suppose the parents will face charges for failing to protect their guns? Nawwww...it was just "one of them things."

[Cannonpointer]

O Really said:

"There is not now, nor has there ever been any risk to the Second Amendment and any attempt at curtailing the easy availability of guns has been at best a minor inconvenience - not a restriction on legal ownership. But the NRA won't tolerate even minor inconvenience whether or not it might have a positive effect on citizen safety."

I disagree. They have created multiple categories that are denied ownership. Anyone falsely accused of witchcraft or, "DV" as they are now calling that catch-all, is confiscated on. Ex cons - a big and growing population segment - are not allowed guns. Anyone on probation for anything.

Anyon who LIVES with anyone in this category is likewise curtailed in their rights, lest they do legal damage to their room-mate/kid/parent/friend/fuckbuddy.

We're talking millions and millions of Americans. That's pretty significant, IMHO.

[Cannonpointer]

Well, I am against it. No one should have guns but cops, and I will tell you why. If a cop sees you or me packing, he will say, "Oh, that guy has it. Let's get a donut."

Now you have lazy cops, which leads to childhood obesity and type three diabetes.

The best thing is a rape whistle. You blow that thing real loud and the cop HAS to come running, or he'll be embarrassed. Now, you have in-shape pohleece, AND you're squeezing the most out of your pohleece dollar. Win Win. The only thing better would be a win win win, but then the criminal would be happy. No sense in letting that happen - just keep it at win win.

[O Really]

I disagree. They have created multiple categories that are denied ownership. Anyone falsely accused of witchcraft or, "DV" as they are now calling that catch-all, is confiscated on. Ex cons - a big and growing population segment - are not allowed guns. Anyone on probation for anything.

Anyon who LIVES with anyone in this category is likewise curtailed in their rights, lest they do legal damage to their room-mate/kid/parent/friend/fuckbuddy.

We're talking millions and millions of Americans. That's pretty significant, IMHO.

I take it hyperbole is one of your talents? The Second Amendment provides the right to bear arms, but that right is not unlimited. The Supreme Court has ruled several times that ownership of specific types of weapons can be limited, and that it is perfectly Constitutional to deny ownership for certain "categories" of people. For example, ownership is limited by age, by felony conviction, by incarceration in a loony bin, and possession and use is further limited by location.

I don't advocate for a bunch of new gun laws - I'd like to see laws common to most everything else applied equally to guns. It's too easy to get off on an "oops" defense most places, for example. And in the most recent (of many) school shootings, the parents (or whoever the gun was taken from) ought to be charged with criminal negligence.

[Cannonpointer]

Perhaps a few more armed citizens would have made the difference in those mass shootings? Not that I favor that - I'm firmly with the rape whistle for self defense.

As to hyperbole being one of my talents Sir, hyperbole is my LIFE BLOOD. I simply would DIE IMMEDIATELY without it.

[O Really]

Perhaps a few more armed citizens would have made the difference in those mass shootings?

You're probably right. That's why there never have been any shootings in police stations, military bases, firing ranges...oh wait.

[neoplacebo]

Yeah, probably better off with the rape whistle and hyperbole.

[neoplacebo]

Well, I am against it. No one should have guns but cops, and I will tell you why. If a cop sees you or me packing, he will say, "Oh, that guy has it. Let's get a donut."

Now you have lazy cops, which leads to childhood obesity and type three diabetes.

I know a few places where you'd be right at home; places where only the cops have guns. If you're of a civilized mind, only cops (and criminals) have guns in Britain. If you're of an intrepid bent, there are other places where only cops have guns. Of course, in all those other places, the criminals have guns, too. Hardly anybody has a rape whistle. Actually, those folks scoff at and shit on a rape whistle. And don't worry....we've always had lazy cops, childhood obesity, and type one two and three diabetes. I predict these conditions to continue unabated. And I advise you to throw away or shit on your rape whistle(s). You're welcome.

[Boatrocker]

One nutjob with guns, blasting away in a dark, crowded theater full of panicked moviegoers was horrid. I can't imagine that 2 or 3 more people blasting away with guns would have made that dark, crowded theater full of panicked moviegoers any safer, any quicker. Even if they were good guys.

[O Really]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/school-shooter ... d=20645406

Parents of Nevada shooter may be charged.
"May," "could be" "potential." Harummph. Anybody want to bet whether they'll actually charge them. (I hope my bet is wrong).

[rstrong]

Parents of Nevada shooter may be charged.
"May," "could be" "potential." Harummph. Anybody want to bet whether they'll actually charge them. (I hope my bet is wrong).

After her 11-year-old son was suspended for twice bringing a loaded handgun to school, Linnea C. Holdren, 43, said the matter was pretty much beyond her control. "I can't lock up his guns," she told police. "They belong to him, and he has a right to use them whenever he wants to use them." (The boy was expelled in January, and Holdren, who is a teacher at her son's Shickshinny, Pa., elementary school, has been charged with felony endangerment.) [San Jose Mercury News-AP, 12-18-05; WYOU-TV (Scranton), 1-18-06] via News of the Weird

[Cannonpointer]

I'm shocked that such goings on could occur in relatively urbane Shickshinny, PA - where the town motto is, "We may not have a lot of book learnin', but we have lots of COMMON sense."

Ah, Shickshinny. Did you REALLY need something besides your name, to be mocked for?

Quick, Leo, defend the honor of Shickshinnians everywhere...

[O Really]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10 ... -gun?lite=

We need more charges like this one! And fewer tragedies involving "accidentally" dead kids.

[Mr.B]

Home Invasion!

[Cannonpointer]

That was a genius commercial. That business got its money's worth.