The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[broncofan]

You could just take a hiatus without saying anything.

I wasn't actually recommending you take a hiatus! Where have you gone? I did buy my truck from John Elway. See, I can be agreeable.

[trish]

BTW (for the three or four people who will ever read this) the answer to the question "Do I want to see the FBI sweep the homes of psychiatric patients checking them for arsenals?" in post #1436 was supposed to be "NO." The numbered statements afterward are the reasons why "No" is the answer.

[fred41]

BTW (for the three or four people who will ever read this) the answer to the question "Do I want to see the FBI sweep the homes of psychiatric patients checking them for arsenals?" in post #1436 was supposed to be "NO." The numbered statements afterward are the reasons why "No" is the answer.

I'm sorry it's too late. Based on the original answer - phone calls have been made causing a chain reaction of events that are impossible to stop. I'm afraid you ogled your last tufted titmouse toots...you're coming with us.

[buttslinger]

I was actually banned this whole month for making racist comments up in the porn section.
That's why I was lying low down here.
Let me put it this way: if you judge all people as self serving scum, you're probably half right.

[buttslinger]

Let me put an end to this throbbing boner of a discussion, you guys have worn me down (and out)...
My point....AGAIN....
Yes yes yes, send in the lawyers to tweak the gun code, and some nutcases in basements won't be able to sell their 50 round pistol clips on the internet and at gun shows. That is easy, and would do some good.
Just like the NRA, the American Car Making Empire resisted seat belts, because it would cost them money per each car. It has saved countless lives, and set a tone for car safety. Simply by enacting a simple law. And even if some people still break the law and don't click up, and even if the police don't really enforce it, it is a good thing.
My point, AGAIN, is that locking up a few guys for making banana clips in their garage is a drop in the bucket.
If you want to lay awake all night anguishing about something, try the tax code. That's how they got Capone.
We already have all the laws you need, but being in debt trillions of dollars means we can't enforce them.
The Government is broken because the Government is broke.
First things first, you guys are giving me a headache. I guess what goes around comes around. If you give the people freedom, build lots of jails.

[broncofan]

The example of seatbelts is a very useful one. Gun control and reforming the tax code are not mutually exclusive! We have significant debt but also very good credit. I disagree that we lack funding to enforce our laws....

[buttslinger]

I saw an interview with Clint Eastwood wincing about his time as the Mayor of Malibu,.....he said when he was the Director of a big budget Motion Picture, he would tell people to jump, and they would say "how high?"
But when he was Mayor and told people what to do, his phone lines and office was packed with people who wanted to explain to him how wrong he was, better options, dangers, possible legal actions, and concerns.
So when I say "what we oughta do" here, I pretend that I am here on a special mission from the Starship Enterprise, going back in time to save the world, with a stern warning not to disrupt the space time continuum.
I have to consider that outlawing banana clips because some psycho shoots up a movie theatre probably means incarcerating a lot of trailer trash teen yahoos who have their banana clip toys hidden in their closet, next to their porn mags.
Whatever you decide, you're fucked either way, so you have to decide which course fucks the entire population the least. Whatever you do, when it comes to gun control, half the people are going to be disenchanted. You are going to be the arbiter of a Civil War, and you better make sure you don't have a personal agenda, be prepared to be nailed to the cross.
Even though we are at a stalemate with gun control and abortion, that may be better than one side winning. You can basically do anything you wanna do in the States, be a surfer bum or a CEO. That kind od chaos is good.
Economically, it's good to be a growing reckless teenager rather than an old wise fogie. Maybe being in debt trillions of dollars is a smart move, financially. I'm not really sure if it's better to be a transsexual escort who gets paid a grand to go to dinner, or the guy who can afford to pay a transsexual escort a grand to go to dinner. My World is Gen Tso's carryout.
I'm going to presume that the status quo is fucked, as usual, and take comfort in the fact that everything I'm writing here means nothing. That's a good thing.
I hope when I'm on Death Row it's for killing a tranny whore, not for blowing away a 7-11 clerk. I've heard a lot of those death row guys are voracious readers, and finally have the time to read some really epic books. You'd have to put a gun to my head to do that now.

[trish]

Every American claims to love freedom above all else. Yet, taking away someone's freedom is the only punishment American's can ever seem to come up with for dealing with even the most petty criminal activity. Should we pass a law against banana clips, how 'bout we give those banana clip owning trailer boys some community service? It's not like there isn't a town in the U.S. that couldn't use some pothole fillin' and some garbage cleanup. As for those dealers who make a living selling illegal arms illegally, fine their asses. They were makin' money, now take it. Of course, if they can be linked to more serious crime (like they sold arms to a psycho who went out and killed someone), then you can talk jail. But mostly save the jail time for the asshats who shoot, maim and kill.

I hope when I'm on Death Row it's for killing a tranny whore, not for blowing away a 7-11 clerk.

Because whoring is against the law, or 7-11's are just awesome stores?

What DOES that 't' stand for?

[buttslinger]

That thievin' whore stole my wallet, Your Honor, it was a crime of passion.
My friend's friend did a stretch for owning a machine gun, you might as well say he did a stretch for being an idiot, the only person he would ever kill is himself by accident, or his girlfriend Sue, and that would be no great loss to society, trust me.
Guns really are safer than cars in the hands of somebody with their shit together, take your car out on the streets and you put your life in the hands of some drunk.
My main man Obama said EVERYBODY should get out there on the weekend and clean those rivers and pick up beercans off the median. I think that's what the T stands for.

[trish]

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