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One year after Parkland...1100 children killed

Threegoofs said:
It won’t divert resources at all.

Unless you mean the people busy doing crimes now would be diverting their time into filling out registration forms, and police would be diverting their time to taking unregistered guns off the streets.
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How could you think it wouldn't divert resources? You would have to create an agency to deal with the registrations. That would be a huge undertaking by itself. On top of that you would only have law abiding people who would fill the registrations out. So it would do almost nothing in terms of removing guns from criminals. Your comment ignores basic reality.

When you think about how happy you would be taking away others rights, just imagine if the government decided after guns they need to start dealing with that pesky right to free speech.
 
Threegoofs said:
It won’t divert resources at all.

Unless you mean the people busy doing crimes now would be diverting their time into filling out registration forms, and police would be diverting their time to taking unregistered guns off the streets.
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Why didn't that work in Canada for long guns when they already had the registry infrastructure in place?
 
Threegoofs said:
It won’t divert resources at all.

Unless you mean the people busy doing crimes now would be diverting their time into filling out registration forms, and police would be diverting their time to taking unregistered guns off the streets.
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Really... hmmm so you don;t think its going to take resources to keep and maintain a national database, have law enforcement regulate and enforce said registration, make sure their is compliance etc when millions of law abiding gun owners.. now show up to register their firearms, and have to register their firearm every time they sell a firearm, buy a firearm, transfer a firearm.. etc. The amount of time and effort is going to be astronomical when you consider all the legal gun sales, transfers etc that happen in the country. Then what do you do when there are only temporary transfers.. like when I let my buddy borrow my sons .22 for a few months so that he can teach his child gun safety. Now we have to switch registration because he is going to have the firearm for 6 months?

Why do you not think its going to take any resources to do all that.. .. please explain.



And please explain this comment:

Unless you mean the people busy doing crimes now would be diverting their time into filling out registration forms,
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Hmmm.. thats an interesting comment. Do you really think that people busy doing crimes would be diverting their times filling out registration forms?

police would be diverting their time to taking unregistered guns off the streets.
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Yes.. that concerns me that they would be diverting their time doing such. Wow..instead of actually policing violent crime.. they would be worried about "unregistered firearms"...

Crap that scares me. I have in interracial marriage. One of the main reasons for gun control..particularly concealed carry laws..was because of racism against minorities carrying weapons. The need to "get guns off the streets"..is what started much of the "stop and frisk".. that occurred and still occurs today in minority communities at such frequency.
I have a concealed weapons permit.. which gets picked up anytime anyone runs my registration on my vehicles.. I would be very concerned that some overzealous police officer is now stopping and searching my son because they are "looking for unregistered firearms".. We already have problems with concealed weapons carriers who are minorities getting killed by excitable police officers.
 
VanceMack said:
When you make ridiculous, stupid comments you invalidate yourself before you even have the chance to make a proper introduction.

I suppose that may have been your intent.
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Only the people my comments hit feel like it's a ridiculous statement. My intent is exactly what I said, we could have mass slaughters every month and it would matter not to gun supporters. I don't think that's an ambiguous statement.
 
Rucker61 said:
Should the government be able to ignore Constitutional protections of rights to protect the lives and well-being of children?
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No it should not, the constitution should maybe be amended to protect all of us from the folks who feel it is necessary to have firearms.
 
bongsaway said:
Only the people my comments hit feel like it's a ridiculous statement. My intent is exactly what I said, we could have mass slaughters every month and it would matter not to gun supporters. I don't think that's an ambiguous statement.
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No...Only the people that read your comments see them as stupid. I dont think we need to worry about that anymore.
 
bongsaway said:
No it should not, the constitution should maybe be amended to protect all of us from the folks who feel it is necessary to have firearms.
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Find a recent red/blue map of the states. Start counting red states. Stop when you get to 13.

Do you really think you need protection from all of the 100 million people who own firearms?
 
Threegoofs said:
Not bad! Only three a day!

Lois Beckett on Twitter: "1,100 American kids have been killed with guns since Parkland. There were more than:

40 college-bound seniors: [url]https://t.co/OACdcwbSfV

80 infants/toddlers: https://sinceparkland.com/categories/infants-and-toddlers/

30 artists: https://sinceparkland.com/categories/artists/

40 community volunteers: https://t.co/BqSQJxaJqB… https://t.co/951MqEKwEy"[/url]

I look forward to hearing how they all really deserved it because they are criminals, or they don’t count because they’re suicides/have stupid parents/blah blah blah.
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Well, do you think none of these "Children" were criminals engaging in risky behavior?
 
Rucker61 said:
Find a recent red/blue map of the states. Start counting red states. Stop when you get to 13.

Do you really think you need protection from all of the 100 million people who own firearms?
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Nope, just the one I'm unlucky enough to run across at the wrong time.
 
bongsaway said:
No it should not, the constitution should maybe be amended to protect all of us from the folks who feel it is necessary to have firearms.
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Well you can start with hundreds of different civilian government groups that arm their employees. Then you can whine about all those rich anti gun scum suckers in office who have armed bodyguards.

I love seeing this sort of irrational fear in the left.
 
bongsaway said:
Nope, just the one I'm unlucky enough to run across at the wrong time.
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Do you plan on doing something that would cause someone to want to shoot you? If you don't hang out with drug dealers or illegal narcotics users or in areas filled with such people, your risk of getting shot is rather slim.
 
TurtleDude said:
Well you can start with hundreds of different civilian government groups that arm their employees. Then you can whine about all those rich anti gun scum suckers in office who have armed bodyguards.

I love seeing this sort of irrational fear in the left.
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Irrational fear, thanks for the chuckle. I don't own a gun, feel no need to own a gun, and don't see myself every owning a gun unless it's to target shoot. Does that sound fearful to you? If I were the fearful type my house would be full of firearms. There's a guy that lives around me who offers concealed weapon classes. He advertises with the saying, 'stop the threat'. Be afraid, buy a gun.
 
bongsaway said:
Irrational fear, thanks for the chuckle. I don't own a gun, feel no need to own a gun, and don't see myself every owning a gun unless it's to target shoot. Does that sound fearful to you? If I were the fearful type my house would be full of firearms. There's a guy that lives around me who offers concealed weapon classes. He advertises with the saying, 'stop the threat'. Be afraid, buy a gun.
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You used the words "protect all of us from the folks who feel it is necessary to have firearms" so the confusion from Turtle was a byproduct of that particular line. when you say you need protection from something it sounds like a fear of it.

His comment that it was irrational is because you are more likely to be killed by a car than by a gun. cars kill more people every month than guns do in a year. (might be a slight exaggeration).

While you may not think you fear guns, if you want to get rid of them because you might get shot or you think a friend or family member might get shot, then maybe it is the right word?
 
bongsaway said:
Irrational fear, thanks for the chuckle. I don't own a gun, feel no need to own a gun, and don't see myself every owning a gun unless it's to target shoot. Does that sound fearful to you? If I were the fearful type my house would be full of firearms. There's a guy that lives around me who offers concealed weapon classes. He advertises with the saying, 'stop the threat'. Be afraid, buy a gun.
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I have a 45 year track record as a successful competitive shooter.
 
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