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In reply to the discussion: 14-year-old boy dies after West Homestead shooting [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)2. Where do you think the three guns came from?
Care to hazard a guess? I'm willing to bet they weren't legally owned. How did they go from probably being legally bought guns to illegally possessed? What can we do to prevent things like this form happening?
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Since what you posted was the whole article, what was it that you wanted to discuss?
ManiacJoe
Dec 2011
#1
"The police are inherently authoritarian and right wing. They should have no arbitrary power."
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#18
Yet you want to give the police the final say in my civil liberties? That's a liberal position? nt
hack89
Dec 2011
#27
Having only a superficial knowledge of the gun restriction issue (at *best*)
Simo 1939_1940
Dec 2011
#170
The police have no obligation to protect you, unless you are in their custody. n/t
oneshooter
Dec 2011
#126
I do live more or less in the "boonies"...as do millions of Americans. I hope you are not
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#147
I'm suggesting you consider others rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#153
Your knowledge of civics is abysmal. "...life, liberty and the pursuit..." is from the Declaration
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#158
I wrote reports on crimes that had already been committed. This was a semi-major urban city.
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#163
"As to where criminals get their guns, how is that germane to the discussion?"
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#168
But you *do* have an "UNprogressive agenda"- you support the Patriot Act.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#165
I am debating with *you*, and I stand with Bernie Sanders and these Dems in opposition:
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#169
Reducing the supply of illegal guns through common sense measures would go a long way.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#71
They are locked up - just angling for a bigger safe so I can grow my collection. nt
hack89
Dec 2011
#96
Storage requirements not a problem providing they don't interfere with home defense.
hack89
Dec 2011
#98
As long as the police have no discretion I have no problem with a background check
hack89
Dec 2011
#35
The police perform arrestd based on either witnessing a crime, having a warrant or
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#111
If the police don't think you need to vote? If the police don't think you need to demonstrate?
X_Digger
Dec 2011
#51
So the Scalia of his day has the final word? Burger was a conservative Republican.
hack89
Dec 2011
#132
I can understant why you wouldn't want discuss the other civil liberties protected under the BoR.
aikoaiko
Dec 2011
#61
There are plenty people who consider liberals to be "mentally ill", per se.
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#112
And most of them agree with the shared opinion of the pro-gun crowd in this forum...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#115
Do you care about the victims of gun violence enough to want to do something real about it? n/t
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#104
So basically you're for leaving a loophole Jared Lee Loughner could drive a truck through?
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#155
So why not have a real net. Clearly, people are getting through the way its currently designed.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#102
Some are, but the safety net I'm talking about is not just about gun possession.
aikoaiko
Dec 2011
#105
By the way, how would you suggest to accomplish "free Tibet" without armed force?
Fair Witness
Dec 2011
#149