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In reply to the discussion: "Regulate" does NOT mean "take them away" [View all]Taverner
(55,476 posts)81. That is what IS
Not what I want
Yes, Patrick Bateman could kill us all - but there would be LESS guns
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Psychiatrists won't risk the liability if they pass somebody who commits a crime...
sanatanadharma
Dec 2012
#57
Some wish to do just that but would like to hear what regulate means to you.
former-republican
Dec 2012
#2
Registration..huge penalties for failure to register to start. There are 300,000,000 cars in the US
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#19
We have around 2000 special agent investigators in the ATF that specifically deal with firearms
former-republican
Dec 2012
#58
Forget psych eval and school renovations..We are not going to be victims of the NRA and gun industry
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#85
OK...I've said on other threads...if we can't approximate the laws on motor vehicles as a start,
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#99
How about another approach...as we're all learning here...a gun owner/parent of an
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#45
A person shall be put to death quickly if convicted of a crime while in possession of a firearm.
MrYikes
Dec 2012
#39
Honest question here: Did everything in the Federalist Papers make it into the Constitution?
patrice
Dec 2012
#54
Agreed. & Concealed carry is not "well regulated" because what is concealed could be anything, could
patrice
Dec 2012
#53
The fact that a gun-nut's son went on a killing spree proves it is not regulated enough
Taverner
Dec 2012
#69
My point is that because it IS concealed, ordinary people in the social environments of their OWN
patrice
Dec 2012
#72
I have found them inspiring as someone who has not ever had to Get In Their Faces for decades.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#87
I'm saying your attitude strikes me as *very* much like Ward Churchill's:
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#92
No, they need to come up with an appropriate alternative...seriously lacking in the run of the mill
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#89
There could be required liability and yearly license for every gun which is rapid fire.
Thinkingabout
Dec 2012
#105