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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:48 AM Original message |
High-profile shootings fail to spur gun control |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Excellent news |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It's got to be galling to the controllers/restrictionistas. n/t |
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virginia mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. One day Bloomberg will get the message.. |
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Katya Mullethov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. It wont matter if nobody's buying , as long as someone is paying |
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Lurks Often (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. It's nice to see that, increasingly, people are starting to recognize |
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rbixby (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
5. There wouldn't be these shootings |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. 2995? Fewer than the same period last year, or the year before... |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Ok, I kinda had to Laugh at this a little; |
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Remmah2 (971 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. High Profile |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Profit or not, shooting a congresswoman in broad daylight is a pretty |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Can some non-gun fan explain what "stricter gun laws" would help? Serious Question. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. If "stricter gun laws" impede proliferation of guns, I'm all for them -- especially in public. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. You didn't fully answer. How would such laws actually HELP? |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Well let's see -- if it is tougher for you guys to carry, you are less likely to buy as many toters. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Do you favor banning all firearms? (n/t) |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Truthfully, I'd be satisfied impeding proliferation in public. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Why, there's been no significant problem caused by concealed carry ... |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. People have not seen significant problems in a lot of things. Doesn't mean "things" weren't wrong. |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. So, you (or was it your relative...?) saw one person do that... |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. If I walk into a restaurant with a machete or big spear gun, do you think that is confrontational? |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Depends on your presentation and apparent intentions. |
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rl6214 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. Always over-exagerating |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:50 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Wrong about guns, just like you are wrong about H Post. Ain't me, but I agree with them. |
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rl6214 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 12:36 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Not you, I had seen a post here saying you |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 04:42 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Shoot, you'll read posts here from gun carriers saying all kinds of chit. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. Do you have any idea what a pain a shoulder holster is, let alone two? |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. All the more reason to consider the guy an arse. Goes through all that to sport his guns. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. That doesn't actually answer the question |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Crime rates are at "low" rate for many reasons. If we keep a gun from being manufactured, that's |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Not that particular gun, no, but the likelihood my posterity will deal with |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Do you know how to multiply by millions of guns not purchased, by say 15 years. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. That's not really step by step. Let's take this one at a time. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:42 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. "Sexy gun" identification - Put electrodes on potential purchasers and if the needle moves . . . |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. You're the one wanting to outlaw guns. The least you could do is be |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. First you establish the goal. Then, you begin impeding current production. Then . . . . . . |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 12:35 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. You keep jumping ahead. "Impeding current production." How does that work? |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 04:35 AM Response to Reply #42 |
47. Easy -- make it difficult to purchase and use (like carry). Impede demand, they won't manufacture. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #47 |
50. OK, so you don't go after the manufacturer. I see. What steps will you take |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #47 |
52. Hello? How? What happens to my gun? n/t |
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rl6214 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 12:39 AM Response to Reply #40 |
44. Where do you come up with "supposed law abiding gun carriers" |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 03:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
46. Ah, I see the problem: your answer is contingent upon certain unstated premises |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 04:40 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Most opinions are based upon little "evidence" - yours included. Do you carry for self- realization. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 09:56 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. What's that fishy smell? |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. So honest citizens should not be allowed to carry guns or have them at home? n-t |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. According to certain members of this forum, you're not sane if you do. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Straw man, Straw man. Like I said -- "especially in public." |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Don't hurt yourself. |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. I agree some people collect guns and I don't understand it..... |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:34 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. That's reasonable in my opinion. I wish all guns were muzzle loaders or old collectibles. |
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Blown330 (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Antique guns... |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:56 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. See how pervasive the problem is. |
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rl6214 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 12:43 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. making stuff up again |
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oneshooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #45 |
51. He can't, too lazy to look it up. And afraid it won't be there. n/t |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
53. I bet it sticks to northern cities... |
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