Gun Nuts

windoggi · Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743

I think our auto licensing and regulation laws are a good model for gun laws. Prove you're registered, insured and capable and off you go. But you still can't drive a AA fuel dragster on the street. Besides, they're a bitch to park.

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

And the exhaust noise would set off every car alarm in the lot. But think how good they would be for hunting deer.
What? Now that you are trying to take my rifle you want to take my hunting break too?

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Licensing and regulations will do nothing to prevent all the gun violence.
The perps are breaking the law! Why would they care about silly regulations when they buy their guns from a trunk of a bud's car at 1AM, in a dark parking lot?

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

mac · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject:

zirtaeb--the fact of registration as a requirement begins to develop a data base on legal guns, and perhaps on ammunition as well. Then the risks of a legal gun owner selling to a criminal start to come into play. It will slow that down, but not stop it. Right now, gun show sales to un-documented buyers is one of the major sources of guns that end up sold out of a trunk on the streets of Oakland.

Don't let the search for a perfect solution stop us from making progress.

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Yeah, I guess there's little need for a mom to own an AR-15, several pistols, and the whot.
Big Blue and Orwell's '84 come into mind.
If you take guns away from everyone, only the crooks and the cops..which could be construed as crooks, will have the guns.

boggsman1 · Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 9120 Location: at a computer

I got an idea. Why don't we subsidize a relocation to Texas for all gun owners, and let them shoot it out...the survivors can keep their guns, we confiscate the rest.

wynsurfer · Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 940

I have not heard one constructive comment from the pro gun people. Their attitude seems to be do nothing, or arm everyone which would lead to more senseless killing. Although registration won't stop this problem, it just might slow things down. The big problem which seems to be on the rise is not with criminals, but the mentally deranged being able to obtain guns. More guns makes no sense. We need to make it harder for these looneys to get their hands on a weapon.

windoggi · Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743

What are you doing over on this forum zirtaeb? I thought you only knew everything there is to know about surfing and windsurfing...