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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No “blood” is “on the hands” of anyone but the person who commits unlawful violence.

Further, I’m sure you have no intention of banning handguns from police or military. What about security personnel?  What about business owners subject to robbery and assault?  What about people facing threats to their lives?  What about professionals at high risk of assault because they, for example, have access to narcotics?  What about elderly, weak or small statured people, especially women?  What about judges?  Political office holders?

Magical solutions sound great until one examines the fact that firearms have specific utility for plenty of decent people.

And from a practical standpoint the more “illegal” guns are the more incentive there is for illicit manufacture, smuggling, theft from government stockpiles and so forth. Criminals import actual tons of unlawful drugs every year. Do you really believe anti-firearm legislation will stop them?  Felons are already prohibited from possessing firearms. It is already unlawful to carry a firearm without a license. Armed robbery, assault and murder are already unlawful.

The “magic magnet” doesn’t exist and wouldn’t work if it did. Focus on the criminals, not inanimate objects. [/quote]

Blood is on the hands of every single person who fought to make it easier for criminals to get guns, starting with the NRA and gun lobby.  We need, at a minimum, complete accountability and traceability of all guns.  Maybe that should start with mandatory registration and documentation for every gun transfer and periodic verification that the guns are still in their owners possession.  Also, there should be limits on how many guns people can buy, to reduce the pipeline feeding criminals.  You DO NOT need to buy 20 glocks a year.[/quote]

No one, ever, least of all the NRA (which you critique but obviously know nothing about) has ever “fought to make it easier for criminals to get guns.”  Well, except maybe a certain administration with its “Fast and Furious” program.

Mandatory registration. Why?  What does that get you?  Other than a confiscation list?  Surely you don’t think criminals will register anything.

Documentation for every transfer. Because criminals will do that?

Periodic verification?  Gosh, no Fourth or Fifth Amendment problem there.

Fantasy solutions. Juvenile list-making without reference to reality.

Lock up the criminals. [/quote]

Yep.  This is what I just don't understand.

These gun grabbers are more than eager to go after the law abiding citizens who own guns, but when it comes to locking up criminals who commit felonies with handguns, they are all about "criminal justice reform."

Crazy.  [/quote]

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