Re: Random Gun Information Still Not Worthy of a New Thread

[Diomedes]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/politics/john-paul-stevens-second-amendment/index.html

Republican.  Nixon put him on Court of Appeals 7th District, Ford put him on Supreme Court.

[phattymatty]

Best sign I saw at the gun march was "I wish Obama took all of your guns"

And damn were those kids good.

[Munson]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/12/16418524/us-gun-policy-nra?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1521838710

Reminder that the NRA isn't the NRA of old.


Also, I'd ban handguns and assault-style weapons, but keep bolt action style rifles and some shotguns legal but regulated.

[Rome]

"Due to the high cost of ammo, don't expect a warning shot." 

"Blue Lives Matter"

Bumper stickers I saw on a car earlier. 

Vomit. 

[General_Failure]

I saw one of these bad boys on the back of a truck the other day, and that's really all I need to know about the guy driving it.

[Tomahawk]

How do you know it wasn't a woman?

[General_Failure]

Because he also had a monster energy drink decal.

[Tomahawk]

The NRA is a legalized non-profit organization, the KKK and MS-13 are not.

Fine, nevermind the analogy I'm drawing.  Explain yourself:  How do you square taking money from a group you consider "hateful and divisive."  How is that not an endorsement of the organization.

Reconciliation comes through taking money from them; endorsement comes through donating to them

[Diomedes]

Turns out that the shooter in the St. Mary's, MD school got the gun from his father, who bought it legally.

It's an a priori truth that the shooting could not have happened if the kid didn't have a gun.

So.

Either:

a.) the father failed in his duty to secure the weapon from falling into a child's possession

OR

b.) The Father did everything required by law and perhaps even more...but the child got the gun anyway, providing further evidence to support the claim that you can't safely keep guns; people who shouldn't have them can always get them.

If the former, then the shooter's father should be charged and imprisoned--his son's demise isn't enough punishment for the risk he subjected us all to by being so careless with a grave threat to public health.

If it's the latter, perhaps John Paul Stevens and others who argue for a radical change in the interpretation of 2A, or even its repeal, have the right of it.

We don't have to accept that kids are going to get guns and shoot each other with them in schools, where armed guards patrol and shoot back at them. We are not helpless before the onslaught; guns everywhere is not inevitable.

[ice grillin you]

his son's demise isn't enough punishment for the risk he subjected us all to

especially the girl who like died

[Diomedes]

Gun nuts would say you can't blame the father, he wasn't the shooter.

I've had enough of these people.

[Rome]

I would gladly turn in my weapons if everyone else did as well.  Not gonna happen, so...

[ice grillin you]

gotta keep those guns around for the purge

[Diomedes]

oh look, another law abiding gun owner

http://wnep.com/2018/04/02/5-year-old-killed-7-year-old-brother-after-finding-gun-while-looking-for-easter-candy-family-says/

[General_Failure]

Arm the teachers. Stoneman Douglas teacher arrested after leaving gun in public bathroom

A teacher at the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 students and teachers were shot to death was arrested for allegedly leaving a loaded gun in a public bathroom.

A homeless man is accused of picking it up and firing it.

According to a Broward County Sheriff's report, Sean Simpson removed his 9mm Glock pistol while using the bathroom at the Deerfield Beach Pier on Sunday and forgot it in the stall when he left to wash his hands.