Huh? Baltimore has gang related shootings and fallout every day. Does mass shorting mean the criminal shot more than 2 people or 4 now? |
Please explain. Use small words and succinct sentences. Pretend you’re explaining it to a child. What is a straw man about that post? |
+1. Same. |
Why do you own a gun at all? Aren’t you worried you’ll snap and murder someone with it? |
No. But I am afraid that people like you will. |
I didn't see any requirement for a robust psychological screening, either. Many legal gun buyers turn out to be either a danger to themselves (suicide) and/or to others (homicide). I think they should be treated like cars. Require titling and registration, and every gun owner must periodically present their guns for inspection to make sure they are still safe to operate, haven't been illegally modified, and above all, are still in their possessions - if not, they need to be fully accounted for. Also, gun owners should be required to carry insurance. I am a gun owner myself, by the way - and I would be fine with all of this. |
No moving of goalposts, these are laws that have been on the books for more than 100 years. With respect to MD's in-depth background check, there is nothing there that could have prevented the recent mass shooters. But a good and reasonable clause would have. |
Is that right? Fascinating. Why do you feel that way? On what do you base that, given we don’t know each other at all? I bet you’d seek a red flag order on me just because you don’t like me, wouldn’t you? |
Yes. Now it’s time to get rid of all personally owned firearms and ammunition, as well as the second amendment. Heller was a travesty. Too many people are dying. |
Ugh...they say everyone else has an agenda, yet they're the only group with an agenda. I mean the "gay agenda" is to live with the person they love. Not exactly as diabolical. |
So few of these murderers were known police types. It's like picking a needle in a haystack. That's why reasonable Dems want to ban assault rifles and severely restrict others. |
Yes all of the above. If a total ban isn't going to happen, treating guns like cars makes complete sense from a societal perspective. Cars, guns they both are lethal weapons in the right/wrong circumstances. |
My question when I read right wing blogs and such (and I do, it’s important info although loathsome) is what’s going to happen to women when they won’t “voluntarily” have sex with men anymore? How will they attempt to compel women? Adrian Vermuele is a leader in this movement. Harvard. Patrick Deneen, Norte Dame. They aren’t advocating for more choice but less. How much will they get away with it before the pendulum swings back? |
So how do you think such a thing will be achieved? Even if you repealed the second amendment - which is incredibly doubtful anyway - how do you propose to remove the 400,000,000 guns from the 90 million people who own them? Existing criminals can’t even be disarmed right now. What expectations do you have for disarming 1/3 of this country’s population who were formerly law-abiding who you transformed *into being criminals* when you made their guns illegal? It’s just not going happen. |
And pro choice folks remind us that banning abortion doesn’t mean there won’t be abortions being performed anyway. But then the same people think that banning guns means no one will be able to get a gun. Cognitive dissonance, anyone? |