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In reply to the discussion: To the 2nd amendment extremists - you have the blood of children on your hands [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)40. Outlaw gunshows. Outlaw private sales.
Outlaw gun sales at pawn shops.
Mandate registration of all firearms, both long guns and hand guns, with a 1-year voluntary registration period first followed by a manufacturer-to-dealer-to-purchaser records search that carries a $1000 fine.
All gun purchasers must pass a firearms training and safety course for each type of weapon purchased. All firearms purchasers must have childproof storage for the weapon purchased prior to taking the gun home.
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To the 2nd amendment extremists - you have the blood of children on your hands [View all]
Politicub
Dec 2012
OP
This shooting is different and will tug at the heartstring of parents and those
Politicub
Dec 2012
#4
You're 100% correct: All NRA supporters are guilty and they are aligning themselves with
byeya
Dec 2012
#86
I accept those words just fine, but they are not a limiting condition on anything but the militia...
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#104
I would say contributing to the NRA, taking an absolutist position on gun rights,
Politicub
Dec 2012
#16
And yet, I was able to find at least 3 instances of it in under a minute.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#105
those same people could have quadrupled their death counts had they used guns
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#126
IMO, a "could have" argument is irrelevant in the collective culpubilty debate.
Marengo
Dec 2012
#128
it merely blows your completely false equivelency of knives = guns out of the water.
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#147
you are making a joke of the issue by suggesting "knife control" . REVOLTING
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#127
So you agree that you can't outrun a bullet but you can outrun a guy with a knife?
neverforget
Dec 2012
#133
Hmmmm lets see. A guy with a gun is shooting at you vs a guy with a knife. In order
neverforget
Dec 2012
#160
I'm listening. Come up with a law that would actually make guns hard to acquire
Recursion
Dec 2012
#15
Tactic no. 18 in the NRA playbook - act like you're asking a question and then attack the answer.
Politicub
Dec 2012
#17
I don't know. I could guess, but I'm not a legislator. All I know is I would support
Politicub
Dec 2012
#23
I would, 100%, too. Even as a staunch 2nd Amendment person I would give up a LOT of ground on it...
Recursion
Dec 2012
#24
Smart people have come up with some good proposals to consider. Anything I say or
Politicub
Dec 2012
#28
There is one for handguns, or at least a mental health system check, though it should be more...
Recursion
Dec 2012
#38
RF shielded tracking devices in all new guns. Harsh penalties if you try to break it.
Politicub
Dec 2012
#39
Just ban guns period, as they do in the UK, eventually the police will round up
xtraxritical
Dec 2012
#66
Meh...party and people are usually off limits but issues? Pretty rare, folks hold clear right wing
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#157
Spot-on post: they DO have that blood on their hands, and they don't care. They want them
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#62
My hands are shaking with emotion....grief, rage, fear, guit-wrenching sadness.
Moostache
Dec 2012
#68
You and your kind are the best god damned thing that ever happened to the NRA and the gun industry.
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#106
actually, it's the nut jobs who think of people who favor gun control as "your kind" ... the same
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#129
The OP wasn't calling for a discussion or a dialog. There is no need to do that.
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#163
Nope, no need to discuss it. One side has a sane perspective, the other doesn't.
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#165
Nothing in the meaning of 'democratic' requires one to consider insanity. If one side proposes
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#171
If you don't support sensible gun control, then you are a bottom dweller and I
Politicub
Dec 2012
#187