Gun Control

[Stoked]

Changing what is available will gradually change what is available to criminals, as well, whether they care about the laws or not. So, your blanket proclamation of an inability to reduce the number of bullets is false.

Changing the severity of a law means little to most mass shooters, from what I can tell. The death penalty carries no threat to the suicidal. So, I see no prospect for saying that "using a firearm increases severity of your crime" to have any deterrent effect, nor any ameliorative effect. Thus, I don't see where it addresses what I am asking about. I don't pretend to speak for Bradley on that.

I never said reduce the number of bullets so nice try there.

As for the suicidal remark. Do you mean to imply that every criminal that commits a crime with a gun is suicidal? Of course jot but the laws that govern what you can and cannot do with a gun seem to have no effect.

It is already against the law to use a firearm for an illegal activity. Such as robbery or rape. Does not seem to stop them though.

Also I do not accept that my rights to gun ownership, within reason (I don't need a bazooka), should be limited because others are not capable of personal responsibility. Banning a rifle because it has a pistol grip makes it no more deadly than a hunting rifle.

An AR-15 uses the same caliber as a normal hunting rifle (.223). It does not fire faster or have more power. It is simply scarrier looking. That's it. Banning them in no way shape or form controls or limits gun violence.

 

[Stoked]

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[moevillini]

...As for the suicidal remark. Do you mean to imply that every criminal that commits a crime with a gun is suicidal? Of course jot but the laws that govern what you can and cannot do with a gun seem to have no effect....

just jumping in to give a quick and simple answer: It means that for those who intend to take their own life after doing whatever it is that they are trying to do, making the penalty more severe isn't going to make a difference to that type of perpetrator.

 

[moevillini]

we need to legalize drugs ASAP, that'd be the first step I'd suggest in reducing gun violence

 

[Stoked]

we need to legalize drugs ASAP, that'd be the first step I'd suggest in reducing gun violence

It would probably work.

 

[franklin]

They don't do anything for the parent whose kid just shot themself. They don't do anything for the spouse being shot by an abuser. The don't do anything for the homeowner whose gun is found by a thief and turned on the homeowner. Yet, at the very least, the first two are much more common than the scenario you devise.

Of course it's more prevalent than a very narrowly defined circumstance. How do the numbers come out when you add everything to the other side of the ledger equally as you have with your gun owner killings side? I'm guessing rape alone is at least more than 10 times and home invasions at least quadruple.

I don't have a problem as an individual (on this topic); our country has a problem.

Can you be more specific?

 

[Gameface]

we need to legalize drugs ASAP, that'd be the first step I'd suggest in reducing gun violence

I think this is completely true. There is a huge industry in our nation that operates outside the law. They can't go to court to settle disputes so they resort to armed thugs or gangs to protect their business interests.

Drug gangs often acquire guns illegally as it is and I imagine they'll have the easiest time maintaining access to weapons no matter what our gun laws are.

 

[UGLI baby]

Safety ON/OFF when y'all shoot?

 

[franklin]

Safety ON/OFF when y'all shoot?

OFF! Never post in a babe bro

 

[HipHopAnonymous]

Just listening to the Sheriff who went back the White House to meet with Biden on gun control. They were talking about how many people actually lied on their background checks(a felony) and were not prosecuted. Biden's response was that they didn't have the man power to prosecute.... Oh ok good let's set more laws that we aren't able to enforce.

 

[Stoked]

Just listening to the Sheriff who went back the White House to meet with Biden on gun control. They were talking about how many people actually lied on their background checks(a felony) and were not prosecuted. Biden's response was that they didn't have the man power to prosecute.... Oh ok good let's set more laws that we aren't able to enforce.

Or better yet a mass purging of idiotic laws that pull man power. Then refocus on the laws that really do matter.

 

[babe]

OFF! Never post in a babe bro

Franklin, you're being a bad boy. This comment is just ugli on every level. Since my kids are reading over my shoulder here, let me just say I've never seen such an ugli post.