Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

[The Rube]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Slippery slope to a national registry though...

I agree with the gunshow loophole. I am fully against a registry, however. Thank you for answering in an honest manner.

[Priceless]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Slippery slope to a national registry though...

And that would be bad because?

[The Rube]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

And that would be bad because?

I like my friggin' privacy. No offense, but that's the way I feel.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

I've never asked for guns to be banned. Ever. Don't put words in my mouth that were never ****ing uttered.

Yes, we want common sense laws, like closing the gun show loophole. Why should just ANYONE be able to go to a gun show and buy a gun? Convicted felon? Go to a gun show. Clinically insane nutjob? Go to a gun show. No background check required at all in 33 states. That's a pretty big freaking loophole, no?

OK, that is fair. I'll lay off the hyperbole if you will.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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You know, the irony of this argle-bargle is that I just finished reading a book The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics. It's from the Clinton era, but still rings somewhat true. Among the lies presented are, "The Abortion Debate Matters", "Immigration Hurts America", "All Politicians are Corrupt", "The Environment - it's Mother Earth or Mother Lode", "Republicans Believe in Smaller Government"/"Democrats are Compassionate", and "Gun Control Reduces Crime".

Aren't wedge issues great?

[Priceless]

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I like my friggin' privacy. No offense, but that's the way I feel.

Right now you can be on the terrorist watch list and still legally buy a gun.

[Gurtholfin]

And that would be bad because?

Because in a compromise, your side gets something, and then the other side gets something.

And we wonder why nothing gets done. Don't overreach.

Closing the loophole makes a lot of common sense. A registry seems intrusive and not really sure how it would help.

I don't actually believe that closing the loophole is a slippery slope to a registry. It was a strawman trope. A joke...

[bigmrg74]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

"All Politicians are Corrupt"

You trying to say that there might be one honest one somewhere that the Political Machine hasn't gotten to yet??

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Right now you can be on the terrorist watch list and still legally buy a gun.

There are a lot of problems with gun sales that need to be solved. The lack of background checks at gun shows and for private sales, strikes me as #1. Even if it's purely symbolic and difficult to enforce, that doesn't mean we have to tacitly approve of the current state of things.

I am not necessarily opposed to registration, a ban on all sales that do not involve a "transfer of title" similar to buying a car, and criminal liability for gun owners in cases where a gun registered to a particular owner is used in the commission of a crime, and it is determined that the owner was negligent in storing/trigger locking/otherwise taking reasonable precautions to ensure that their weapon could not be used by someone other than themselves. I don't view it as a privacy issue. However, I also do not feel that such laws will do much to prevent crimes in which guns are involved.

[Priceless]

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I like my friggin' privacy. No offense, but that's the way I feel.

Oh, and BTW, I like my privacy too. Unfortunately, the government listens to my phone calls and reads my emails anyway.

Hi Agent Mike!

[Jimjamesak]

Oh, and BTW, I like my privacy too. Unfortunately, the government listens to my phone calls and reads my emails anyway.

Hi Agent Mike!

Not to mention all of those government registries for taxes, Social Security, drivers licenses, vehicles, property...

Edit: For my job as an airport worker I had to submit to a full background check including fingerprints and a US Customs background check with 10 years of work and residence history. That's just to move rubber dogs*t out of Hong Kong. To buy a gun I don't even have to do the background check.

[bigmrg74]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Oh, and BTW, I like my privacy too. Unfortunately, the government listens to my phone calls and reads my emails anyway.

Hi Agent Mike!

You be nice to Agent Mike, he's gotta read through all of the Hockey East threads over on the D1 side. The poor bastard isn't paid enough to do that.

[Handyman]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Yeah the ease at which people can buy guns is ridiculous. dont want a registry...fine. But intensive background searches should be done. My low rent office job required more background checks than the average gun sale does.

[LynahFan]

Re: Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

Those guns were perfectly legal.

Virginia Tech...



Sandy Hook...


Or did she buy an illegal weapon?

(Source: Wikipedia. If you really want I'll find other sources..)

So....were those weapons fully automatic or not?

[XYZ]

So....were those weapons fully automatic or not?

No.