Each "average" gun owner equipped for mass murder

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Each "average" gun owner equipped for mass murder

Post by Tero » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:18 am

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Post by JimC » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:44 am

In my 20s, I only had 4!

All long rifles and a shot gun of course, no hand guns...
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Post by laklak » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:49 am

i obviously need more guns.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by JimC » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:00 am

Equip your boat with a broadside of smoothbore cannons!
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Post by Hermit » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:21 am

Although I never actually owned a firearm I borrowed a Sportco .22 for a year when I lived for a year at Lake Eucumbene in the mid or late 70s and shot dozens of rabbits with it, usually on my way back home from the nearest pub (in Berridale), which was 25 kilometres away. The rifle looked something like this:

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A few weeks into the hunting it occurred to me for a reason too long to relate that I ought to get a shooter's license. Off I went to the local cop shop, also in Berridale, and filled in a form. No background check was made. Between walking in to the station and leaving it with a valid license fewer than ten minutes passed. The fee was two dollars and good for two years.
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Post by laklak » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:33 am

JimC wrote:Equip your boat with a broadside of smoothbore cannons!
Stern and bow chasers, too.
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Re: Each "average" gun owner equipped for mass murder

Post by Tero » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:54 pm

Gun control? Nothing will happen.
This is how bad things are: Tuesday morning, hours before the San Bernardino shooting, Congress received a petition from a group of doctors begging that august body to reverse a ban preventing funds that would allow the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the gun violence epidemic.

This is how bad things are: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency charged with ensuring that gun dealers and manufacturers comply with federal firearms laws, is prevented by Congress from keeping electronic records. That, gun advocates say, would be a registry, which is, some fear, a prelude to confiscation — never mind that gun confiscation is both politically and practically impossible.

This is how bad things are: In 2010, the Washington Post wrote that the ATF "still has about the same number of agents it had nearly four decades ago: 2,500. The firearms bureau inspects only a fraction of the nation's 60,000 retail gun dealers, taking as much as eight years between visits to stores. By law, the ATF cannot require dealers to conduct a physical inventory to determine whether any guns have been lost or stolen."

A criminal justice professor told USA Today in 2013 that one of the most perplexing provisions of a 2011 law limiting the ATF's power was "that false record-keeping for dealers was reduced to a misdemeanor, meaning if an ATF agent audited a gun dealer missing 1,200 guns, the dealer could not be charged with a federal offense." U.S. attorneys, he said, don't bring a lot of misdemeanor cases to federal court.

And in Michigan, legislators can't even agree to pass a law that would bar firearms from school campuses, something most principals and superintendents seemingly support.

That is how bad things are.

We have a problem. And there are some relatively simple steps we could take to begin to address it: Pass legislation that would allow the ATF to effectively track gun sales. There are no illegal gun factories; every gun obtained illegally was made by a legitimate corporation. Fund the CDC's efforts to research this problem, which kills thousands of Americans each year. Initiate a voluntary buyback program. Stop blocking sensible restrictions about what kinds of guns should be easily obtainable by regular folks, or about where it's OK to brandish a weapon (clue: not at schools).

There is no chance that any of these things will happen.
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Re: Each "average" gun owner equipped for mass murder

Post by Tero » Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:05 pm

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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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