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GURGLETROUSERS



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What I'm unable to understand about all those who continually claim that gun proliferation and training among the general populace will reduce killings, is their apparent lack of understanding of basic human nature!

They argue that because they would have the means and ability to defend themselves, that they wouldn't successfully be confronted. Well of course not. They'd be shot from behind, or from concealment, as was that girl in Chicago, when least expected. They'd be killed without knowing anything about it!

Criminals and a heavily armed underclass don't 'play' to a code of ethics. They adapt their methods to their advantage, and will always ramp up the ante in their favour.

Perhaps some sane person could attempt to explain the logic behind the reasoning that if all are armed, murders will somehow decrease?
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isobars



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you paying attention to the Colorado bill, passed by its senate, making gun sellers and manufacturers responsible for crimes committed with those guns ... forever? It almost makes Crazyfornia seem sane by comparison.

By precedent and implication, that would make automobile makers, cell phone companies, box knife makers, machete forgers, etc. liable for any criminal deaths they cause.

But why not, now that small ... but easily lethal ... knives are again legal on passenger planes?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This bill did NOT pass the Colo Senate. It was advanced for full Senate debate tomorrow by a COMMITTEE.
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keycocker



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why does a person whose statements are entirely wrong every time continue to make a fool of himself?
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coboardhead



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the actual bill.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28EB8FECB7D3F79387257B03007B8F72?Open&file=196_01.pdf

My summary: (Not Faux News or scream radio)

1. Applicable to semi auto rifles only (handguns, shotguns, bolt actions exempted)
2. Exempted in home defense. ("Make my Day Law" intact)
3. Exempted if gun is stolen (properly stored) and reported stolen
4. Manuf, dealers and owners are only liable IF they sell the guns illegally by not following background checks as required in other legislation or do not take reasonable precautions to safe-guard the weapons.
5. Assigns liability for damages that are caused using the weapon outside of the home.

I am against the bill because of the vague language on the precautions for keeping the gun secure. The rest of the bill makes a bit more sense. It establishes liability if you do not follow the rules in transferring a firearm to another owner or lending it to someone of questionable mental capacity. However, the bill does not, adequately, describe legal methods for transferring the firearm by private individuals. The law also attempts to define that there is no legitimate use for "assualt weapons".

It is a poorly written law, in my opinion. One is liable, anyway, for damages caused by negligent use of any weapon (or auto, or bike, or windsurfer).
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mac



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CB--you continue to post sensible things, unlike the riot from Richland. One problem with requiring that guns in the home be secured is the Supreme Court Decision on the Washington DC gun law, which explicitly ruled that government could not mandate trigger locks.

I do support your steady theme that legislation needs to be well thought through, subject to hearings and debate. Like in a democracy. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

isobars wrote:
Are you paying attention to the Colorado bill, passed by its senate, making gun sellers and manufacturers responsible for crimes committed with those guns ... forever? It almost makes Crazyfornia seem sane by comparison.

By precedent and implication, that would make automobile makers, cell phone companies, box knife makers, machete forgers, etc. liable for any criminal deaths they cause.

But why not, now that small ... but easily lethal ... knives are again legal on passenger planes?


Not so. If a car maker installed James Bond gadgets at the request of the buyer knowing that the only intended use for those gadgets was to break the law, then liability of the criminal could be imputed to the car manufacturer.

We're not at this point yet with all weapons conceived, designed and tested to be used only to kill people but increasingly so. I would see little problem with imputing liability to a gun maker who had reason to know such a gun was purchased with a high likelihood of being used in a violent crime.

To be clear, cars are not designed to injure or kill and lack the nexus between intend purpose and actual use. A drunk driver who kills another therefore cannot cause liability to be imputed to the manufacturer simply because the car was used in a way expressly not intended. Some guns involved in crime, however, are being used specifically as conceived, designed and intended. I see a decent argument in that limited circumstance to hold gun manufactures liable for personal injury or death when the gun is used in a crime.

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isobars



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

coboardhead wrote:
A. (Not Faux News or scream radio)

B. Here is the actual bill.

C.
1. Applicable to semi auto rifles only (handguns, shotguns, bolt actions exempted)
2. Exempted in home defense. ("Make my Day Law" intact)
3. Exempted if gun is stolen (properly stored) and reported stolen
4. Manuf, dealers and owners are only liable IF they sell the guns illegally by not following background checks as required in other legislation or do not take reasonable precautions to safe-guard the weapons.
5. Assigns liability for damages that are caused using the weapon outside of the home.

I am against the bill because of the vague language on the precautions for keeping the gun secure. The rest of the bill makes a bit more sense. It establishes liability if you do not follow the rules in transferring a firearm to another owner or lending it to someone of questionable mental capacity. However, the bill does not, adequately, describe legal methods for transferring the firearm by private individuals. The law also attempts to define that there is no legitimate use for "assualt weapons".

It is a poorly written law, in my opinion. One is liable, anyway, for damages caused by negligent use of any weapon (or auto, or bike, or windsurfer).

A. WSJ.
Besides, the only media sources of many important news stories is often Fox and/or talk radio. The rest of the media ignore or even lie about many such stories for days to weeks, until embarrassed, scooped, or forced by Fox/TR to discuss them honestly, if only briefly. And oddly enough, that applies to stories detrimental to the GOP, such as McCaine's so-called amnesty proposition years ago.

B. This is just one of least 3, maybe 8, different current gun control bills in the CO legislature, according to the WSJ.

C. Thanks for listing this particular bill's details. Others reportedly differ, but it's still ludicrous grandstanding to:
• extend liability to an owner if his gun was stolen while not "properly stored" in his own home (what part of "in his castle" is not "properly stored", and of what use is a gun in a safe separated from its ammunition?) • or if the gun is subsequently used by a burglar.
• allow the manufacturer to be sued for anything other than gross mechanical negligence leading to a malfunction.
• Concentrate the law on so-called assault weapons, which has proved over and over to achieve nothing.
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nw30



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's official now, DiFi's brain officially is on fire.
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Sen. Feinstein Makes Wild Claim to Push Gun Control at Senate Committee Hearing
Mar. 8, 2013 3:54pm Jason Howerton

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) shot down a proposed amendment to her “assault weapons” ban that would exempt military veterans from the gun ban. She also made some questionable claims.

Pushing a ban on high-capacity magazines, Feinstein argued that it is “legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.”

Here’s her dubious rationale:

“The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons. The other very important part of this bill is to ban large capacity ammunition feeding devices, those that hold more than 10 rounds. We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. Limiting magazine capacity is critical because it is when a criminal, a drug dealer, a deranged individual has to pause to change magazines and reload that the police or brave bystanders have the opportunity to take that individual down.”


During the same hearing, she also argued that a military veteran could be mentally ill and suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), therefore should be prevented from buying the semi-automatic weapons that would be banned in her bill.

The California Democrat also made the bizarre claim that the “advent of PTSD” is a “new phenomenon” and a “product of the Iraq war.”

Here’s exactly what she said in context: “The problem with expanding this is that, you know, with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, it’s not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/08/sen-feinstein-makes-bizarre-claim-to-push-gun-control-at-hearing-its-legal-to-hunt-humans-with-high-capacity-magazines/
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She must have read that book "How to influence your Enemies, and Loose Your Friends".
I'm sure the vets just love her now.
"PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon", ROFLMAO!!!
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mac



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NW--you are pretty loose with the English language. Does that mean you are a looser?
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