The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[Prospero]

It would be good if these were stories from "the bad old days" told around a fire in good company. instead of horror stories from the front line of daily life.

[trish]

A police officer assigned to a school in Highland NY (you know, we need a good guy with a gun in every school these days) accidentally discharged his weapon and shot a locker.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...hoots/1966639/

[buttslinger]

We, the People, are the Law here. The Police don't actually stop crime, they mop up the mess after the crimes are committed. Part of being a vibrant nation is blundering forward and letting the chips fall where they may. You won't see that written in the Constitution, but it's true. Tightening up the gun laws is common sense, but you can't proscecute people for being poor, or desperate, or crazy.

[robertlouis]

you can't proscecute people for being poor, or desperate, or crazy.

Sadly, that seems exactly what the coalition government in the UK seems dead set on as consistent policy these days.

[yodajazz]

On February 27, in a Walmart parking lot, a man pulled his concealed weapon and fired on a shoplifter who was running to his own car to escape security. The bullets ricocheted and damaged nearby vehicles. The shoplifter got away. The assailant was upset to find himself being arrested. He claimed he was fearful for his life. He was rather hoping he’d be held up as a magnificient example of a good guy with a gun stopping crime.

Just this week, when a Walmart manager refused to recognize a customer’s print out of a one dollar coupon as valid, the customer pulled out her Smith and Wesson .38 Special, waved it the employees and threaten them. When police caught up with her in the parking lot, she refused to surrender her weapon, saying she had a legal permit to for concealed carry and no one was going to take her gun. The nutcase was summarily tazed into submission.

We can go on forever with stories like this. Or maybe we can’t.

http://walmartshootings.blogspot.com/

This is why I don't own or carry a gun. The possibility of being robbed, is very remote. But the possibility of becoming angry is not. Am I am generally a very easy going person. Like last week a woman refused to validate my parking, because the ticket was the wrong color. It would have cost her a thing. All she had to do was to stamp it, and let me worry about the parking garage people. Now, if I was strapped... So actually I wasn't, and I gave it to someone else who took care of it. I had to wait a few minutes for it to be taken care of. And then the parking attendant was still going to charge me, because she didn't look to see that the ticket was stamped on the back. Now, if I was strapped...

[trish]

On January 8th this year, a man with a license to carry a concealed weapon sat across from his wife at a restaurant in Lenexa, Kansas and accidentally shot his wife in the knee.

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/08...-shooting.html

The only thing that can neutralize a stupid man with a gun is strict gun regulation. Some guns shouldn't be available to the general public, some people shouldn't be allowed to carry and no one (short of the police and the military) should have a license to carry secretly.

[hippifried]

Well that Lenexa woman should have had her own concealed gun. Now she's forced back to the sexually segregated bad old days, where she'll have to kill this guy in his sleep! Wake up, sheeple!!
THEY'RE
COMING
TO TAKE
YOUR
GUUUUNS!!!!!

Just walk out to the middle of the street, & start shooting in all directions. You're bound to get a few bad guys before the police politely ask you to surrender your weapons.

[yodajazz]

On January 8th this year, a man with a license to carry a concealed weapon sat across from his wife at a restaurant in Lenexa, Kansas and accidentally shot his wife in the knee.

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/08...-shooting.html

The only thing that can neutralize a stupid man with a gun is strict gun regulation. Some guns shouldn't be available to the general public, some people shouldn't be allowed to carry and no one (short of the police and the military) should have a license to carry secretly.

The question is whether or not he was under the influence of alcohol, at the time of the incident. That would make his act carry a penalty. Looking at that article made me do some research. Until this I did not know that the law had passed here in Ohio to carry concealed weapons in bars. I'm speechless.

[buttslinger]

I think everybody understands the world would be better off with NO guns at all, but they've got these guys called LAWYERS, and for a fee, they'll argue that guys died at Valley Forge for the freedom to bear arms, and guys used guns to help defeat slavery at Gettysburg, and guys shot nazis because that was the only way to stop them from taking over the world.
60 percent of gun deaths are suicides. What is WRONG with those people???!!!!!

[trish]

Depression (just the ordinary everyday variety that sometimes worries a teenager for any number of reasons, lost love, bullying, bad grades, etc. etc.), anxiety, emotional panic + easily available, easy to use, quick and sure weapon in the home = increased likelihood of suicide.