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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 08:57 PM Jan 2013

Chris Rock does it again. [View all]

Found this in today's USAToday.

Remember "bullet control?" Mr. Rock has now come up with another proposal to help prevent gun violence:

"You should have to have a mortgage to buy a gun. No one who has a mortgage has ever gone on a killing spree . . . because a mortgage is a real background check. And you know if you go to jail for 30 years, you still have to pay the (expletive) mortgage."

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Chris Rock does it again. [View all] Brigid Jan 2013 OP

YUP!!! DryRain Jan 2013 #1

Genius !!!!!! orpupilofnature57 Jan 2013 #2

Chris Rock needs to learn what Google is for... -..__... Jan 2013 #3

i think his main point is the hoops you have to go through to get that mortgage, unlike ellenfl Jan 2013 #4

Besides a criminal background check hack89 Jan 2013 #6

100% checks of every sales and transfer....is that what you mean? pkdu Jan 2013 #8

Yes. nt hack89 Jan 2013 #11

Then I think we can make Progress with folks on both sides that agree with that...validating 100% of pkdu Jan 2013 #13

That's funny... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #5

That should be the law TxDemChem Jan 2013 #7

funny ...but he may have something there. SummerSnow Jan 2013 #9

Hah! Countrywide et al was giving mortgages to anybody with a pulse for 6 years. ErikJ Jan 2013 #10

which is exactly how gun shows work.... robinlynne Jan 2013 #12

i deal with mortgages every day. ellenfl Jan 2013 #14

Chris is smarter than a lot of his "quips". For example, he doesn't know about "foreclosure"? Romulox Jan 2013 #15

IMO, make gun owners INSURE their weapons gelsdorf Jan 2013 #16