Gun Control

[Beef Supreme]

This isn't going to be popular on this board but I can't keep it in. The recent shootings at a mall I frequent and an elementary school in CT have brought me to a personal tipping point. I've had it, it's time for serious gun control measures in this country. It's also time to reign in this ridiculous gun culture so many have been fostering. We've tried it the NRAs way and the price for that is simply too high.

I personally own and like guns. I enjoy shooting. I think people have a fundamental right to own guns but nearly everything the NRA has fought for in the last decade is completely nuts. It would be much more effective in the long run as conservation organization and not as an advocacy organization. The pendulum is going to swing back hard and they have brought this upon themselves.

I'm not really interested in hearing the same old tropes. Guns don't kill people. Criminals will get guns anyway. We shouldn't talk about this in the wake of a tragedy. More guns would have prevented the tragedy. We should just enforce the laws we have. Fvck all that. It is time for a sane path forward. Measures won't have the immediate effect of stopping this but that is not an excuse not to do it. It is going to take at least a generation to reverse this situation.

So what would I do? I am not really sure. I don't really come to this as some kind of gun control activist. It seems the following would be a reasonable start.

Background checks for all guns
Assault weapons ban
Ban on large clips and things that facilitate mass murder
Ban on types of bullets that are primarily designed to kill people
Secure storage laws
Repeal laws that allow people to carry in bars, schools etc.
Possible registration laws

Gun ownership can remain a right but it doesn't have to be an unlimited right. There needs to be an appropriate amount of respect and responsibility to go along with ownership.

[Beef Supreme]

Oh, and Fvck Obama for being such a pvssy. Today is exactly the right day to start talking about this like adults.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2302251.html

[Pesqueeb]

Oh, and Fvck Obama for being such a pvssy. Today is exactly the right day to start talking about this like adults.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2302251.html

I thought the same thing. Maybe today isn't, but tomorrow sure as fvck is.

[$tinkle]

i'd like to argue w/ you pack of cunts, but there doesn't seem to be anything to argue about

jerks.

[SlapheadMofo]

I hear ya.

I have friends that are 'into' guns. They specially seem to like the assault style weapons. I'll admit, they are fun to shoot. And I've got zero issues with hunting or anything along those lines. But that seems to be the only tangible reason to own one legally (criminals obviously need high firepower.) For some reason though, it seems that once someone buys one, the majority of once reasonable people turn into rambling paranoiacs with delusions of stopping an invading force or defending suburbia from being overrun by the combined US Armed Forces. Most of these guys serious trouble trying to stop a Triple Whopper from invading their guts; they chance of them sliding into their XXL camo and fighting off whatever contingent they are all worked up about this week are zilch. There's just no good reason for the average citizen to have enough firepower to take out a small village, no matter how much fun it might be to play Rambo at the local range on Sunday.

[jimmydean]

I'm not a gun owner, but I enjoy shooting. All of the gun owners I know are responsible, but I stil don't like the idea of them owning most of the guns they have.

[IH8Rice]

I personally own and like guns......

Assault weapons ban
Ban on large clips and things that facilitate mass murder
Ban on types of bullets that are primarily designed to kill people
Secure storage laws
Possible registration laws

wow

[$tinkle]

wow

you think cop killer bullets are ok for civilian ownership? what's wrong w/ ball ammo / nato rounds only? i'm sure you can drop your 9pt buck w/ that just fine if you know wtf you're doing

[IH8Rice]

you think cop killer bullets are ok for civilian ownership? what's wrong w/ ball ammo / nato rounds only? i'm sure you can drop your 9pt buck w/ that just fine if you know wtf you're doing

"cop killer bullets" is a term used by the media. any bullet can be a "cop killer."

[$tinkle]

"cop killer bullets" is a term used by the media. any bullet can be a "cop killer."

ok, then: teflon coated, or any other ammo intended to thwart protective gear.

better?

[IH8Rice]

ok, then: teflon coated, or any other ammo intended to thwart protective gear.

better?

thatd be different... no civilian needs something like that but any type of bullet that is made can kill someone

[stevew]

Oh, and Fvck Obama for being such a pvssy.

busy dealing with sandy.

one round of golf at a time.

[rockofullr]

thatd be different... no civilian needs something like that but any type of bullet that is made can kill someone

Oh sh!t?

And here I thought cops were impervious to all but the "cop killer" bullet.

[Pesqueeb]

@ NBCNews : UPDATE: Weapons used in shooting were legally purchased and registered to gunman's mother, law enforcement officials tell NBC News

[kidwoo]

Oh, and Fvck Obama for being such a pvssy. Today is exactly the right day to start talking about this like adults.

He must be watching this thread.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2303017.html

Yes he di'id.


I hope to fsm he means it.

I'm kinda sick of this shlt. One of my teachers from high school died this year too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-Florida.html