Straw purchasers contribute to gun crime everywhere, why don't red states bother to crack down on them better? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937134/ "Twenty percent of the licensed firearm retailers in our study population agreed to assist a potential handgun buyer with a transaction that had many attributes of an illegal surrogate or “straw” purchase. Others, while saying no, offered the buyer concrete assistance in completing a purchase they appeared to understand was against the law. In multivariate analysis, pawnbrokers were more than six times as likely as gun dealers to give a positive response." https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/9/2/147 Most dealers were willing to sell a handgun regardless of the end user (self: 87.5%; gift: 70.8%; “need”: 52.5%). Multivariate analyses indicate that dealers in the Midwest, South, and West were more willing to sell than those in the Northeast (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 21.30, 18.74, and 8.93, respectively) and that willingness to sell is lower when the sale would be illegal, that is, under the “need” condition (AOR = 0.20) So sure, perhaps we need DC to file more lawsuits like this, repeatedly. We know that GOP states don't give a flying hoot about what their gun sellers do. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/nyregion/16guns.html |
This, right here. |
| What difference does it make where the guns come from? This is like worrying about which countries ship narcotics into the us. If it doesn’t come from one place, it will come from another. |
Sure why bother. Lawstt |
I grew up in a red state where there were lots of guns and there is way, way, way more gun violence here than there, despite all of our laws |
Your red state is probably supplying guns to the criminals here. Why do our criminals have to source their guns from a red state 100s of miles away? |
You.mean a res state fill of criminal gun dealers that don't give a rats *ss about knowingly selling to straw purchasers per the research cited above? Ol |
This This This This |
Deflect Deflect Deflect Deflect Your criminals. You own it. |
It's fair to ask why red states don't own their criminals when their criminals affect me personally hearing gunshots from my house. Drive by gang knifings aren't as likely to impact me personally. It's especially fair to ask when red state GOP ignores criminals in their own states to rant about criminals in blue states while their criminals supply our criminals. Once again. Why do our criminals have to source their guns from 100s of miles away? Oh, it's because gun laws work. |
Actually law enforcement focuses quite a lot on the up the chain narcotics dealers because they know that's where the real impact is made, not the run of the mill corner drug seller. So yes we should have the same approach with regard to gun trafficking. |
Yeah we’re totally going to stamp out guns just like we’ve stamped out heroin. Correct me if I’m wrong, but is there anywhere in the United States where heroin is legal? |
More gun violence here overall, because there are a lot more people here than there are in the far more sparsely populated red area you came from. But go back and look at the numbers on a per capita basis and you'll find that many red areas with lax gun laws have even more gun violence than DC does. |
Because the weakest link in the chain is where everything breaks. And your red states with the weakest laws are where the majority of criminal guns come from. |
So you are saying qe shouldn't go after heroin importers? |