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  1. Us Assault Weapon Ban **read First**

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    I understood your point Chuck. I would expect there is much more going on in the background with the TSA for what we're spending on it. That doesn't mean that boarding line security is anything more than theater. My point was, why bother with airplanes when you can just set down a bunch of bomb suitcases in a very busy security line. Or take out an entire train. Or get creative and blow the hell out of a nuclear cooling station. Or simply shut down the electric grid.

    Oh, great, the morons are multiplying around this issue. First Feinstein, now Obama taps Biden? Not sure how it could get any worse. Maybe he'll invite Palin to represent gun owners. :rolleyes:

    first, people dont just decide to do something like this randomly after leading a normal life for 20 years. They usually spend a significant amount of time around people who have similar thoughts, and usually make themselves known ahead of time.

    I agree on all counts. I have been promoting well thought out improvements all along, and I still do, despite the resistance I am met with here. Half measures won't do it, obviously. It has to be meaningful.

    I do hope for sane and measured thinking by those who make your laws, even if some of you don't think its even possible. I'm not counting on it either, but ya gotta hope, or you have nothing.

    then lets not waste the money on this gun talk, and spend it on mental health. At least that will have a broader benefit than just trying to preventing these violent gun incidents.

  4. Us Assault Weapon Ban **read First**

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    So that 14 year old had a pistol legally? I doubt that. So if you increase gun control, how do you do it in a manner that prevents a 14 year old from once again illegally obtaining the pistol? Unless you plan to eliminate all guns? And if that same story happened in the UK, it would have been stabbing. The kid's still crazy.

    I don't think anyone is saying we don't need cool off periods. Anyone? Speak up. I'm especially interested in them following domestic situations.

    since i didnt actually read it... but seems that it applies...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Violence_Offender_Gun_Ban

  6. Us Assault Weapon Ban **read First**

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    A lot of you talk like there is no hope for positive change. Lots of negative talk, and plenty of negative attitude. I don't blame you, the issues seem insurmountable. But you have to try right? You have to try to make things better. That's isn't being naive. That is called moving forward in a positive direction.

    Its not my job to come up with how to do it. I am not a legislator. There are people who are paid to do that. What I am saying here is this; there is a huge problem, and it needs fixing, clearly. I don't expect the gun-lovers to like this news. No one expects the gun lovers to like what they are hearing these days. But you cannot deny the elephant in the room. The world is watching. I hope your leaders come up with something that works.

    sorta how it didnt work in canada. Still isnt working in Canada. lol

    It is. .223 is commonly used to hunt small game. Don't you watch the news?

    I believe some places dont even allow you to even use something that small for deer.

  7. Us Assault Weapon Ban **read First**

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    i don't know the terms:

    the grip thingy on top, the handle?

    semi auto and able to convert to FUll fire selector?

    ability for HUGE round clips.--- a hunter should only need one round. i'm ok with 6-8 for misses and animal charges. so we just put a pin in the mag, doesnt really do much.

    a spin off or origins of all the military weapons. b/c the military uses accurate weapons, we need to use the opposite? not to mention pretty much everything you use is from military (cell phones, computers, internet, and most likely the rubber in a fleshlight came in some way from military applications)

    a weapon thats convertible into other configurations between grips, stalks, barrels, firing rate a gun doesnt come out of mold in one peice

    listen i argue this multi times a week already with people. you know at your heart i'm right, and i'm not against all guns either.

    so no more black guns, only vintage looking wood.

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  9. Us Assault Weapon Ban **read First**

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    I'm going to vote No: Other, based on my opinion that I don't see how restricting you from owning the "best" guns really matters, but you can have one that's 70% as good. And you could still buy pre-ban weapons. Pretty sure the recent CT shooting was strictly pistols, the VT tech was pistols. Wackos with guns still kill people, and they seem to have been able to do it with saddening efficiency no matter the weapon. So there's my unscientific opinion :lol:

    Your poll asks "based on it did/didn't save lives". Do you expect people will have hard evidence of this? Or just defend their opinion?

    I was pissing on Mikes cheerios about this. CT School event was with a .223 which never has been a military round. Its almost about the smallest center fire round you can buy both in size and power.

    it appears this guy used what was available to him. It could have been a shotgun, had that been what was at home. The death toll was so high b/c it was small children and it was shooting fish in a barrel. On the topic of banning only the good guns, in canada they ban item based on looks, not necessarily performance.

    http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/05/feds-ban-ak-47-look-alike

    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/10/government-to-gun-owners-we-made-a-mistake-fix-it-for-us-or-go-to-prison/

    edited part: turns out he also had a shotgun in the car

  13. Gun Registry, Canada

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    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/11/gary-mauser-why-the-long-gun-registry-doesnt-work-and-never-did/

    "In March, Stephen Harper’s government reversed decades of increasing restrictions on civilian firearms, scrapping the controversial long-gun registry on grounds that it was wasteful and ineffective. Gun laws, the prime minister correctly said, should focus on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens such as farmers and hunters.

    Some claim that this Conservative policy flies in the face of a mountain of evidence, and even represents an assault against reason. Canadian voters seem divided on this issue, as well as some basic related questions: Are firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens a serious threat to public safety? Is registration an effective approach to controlling misuse? How useful was the long-gun registry to police? This article will answer some of those questions."

  14. Gun Registry, Canada

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    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/06/i-didnt-know-there-was-gun-control-in-canada-u-s-student-spends-four-months-in-canadian-custody-after-carrying-pistol-across-the-border/

    "On July 16, Kraig Jacobson, a Utah college student, was 10 days into a cross-country motorcycle trip when he neglected to tell a Canadian border guard he was carrying a 38-calibre handgun during a quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, Ont. Four months and $10,000 later — and with friends back home launching a “Free Kraig” campaign of T-shirts and petitions calling for his release — the 26-year-old was freed from Canadian custody in early November. The National Post’s Tristin Hopper called Mr. Jacobson in his Alpine, Utah, hometown to get the details of his unwitting brush with Canadian law."

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