Gun Control & RKBA

Hoyt

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24. Then fine, you have little need for a gun if you avoid those folks. Yet you still pack and promote

Reply to gejohnston (Reply #18)

Mon May 14, 2012, 08:39 PM

May 2012

more and more guns.

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L.A. gun buyback yields rocket launcher, assault weapons [View all] ellisonz May 2012 OP

one thing gejohnston May 2012 #1

No in this group it means you are taking away the peoples right to defend themselves from doc03 May 2012 #2

There's a "b" in gobmint. baldguy May 2012 #14

Post removed Post removed May 2012 #56

I'm totally with you on this. Starboard Tack May 2012 #3

If this effort prevents even one shooting... ellisonz May 2012 #12

What if the money spent on this program had been directed to the gang detail Simo 1939_1940 May 2012 #19

I'd imagine the gang detail supports this program. ellisonz May 2012 #23

See, that's the difference between pro-rights and pro-restriction supporters. Simo 1939_1940 May 2012 #39

The "pro-rights side" relies on narrow-mindedness and bullshit. ellisonz May 2012 #44

Seriously?! You need a source for the assertion that Simo 1939_1940 May 2012 #86

You're the one making the claim they don't have enough resources. ellisonz May 2012 #87

Who do you think is paying for it? Starboard Tack May 2012 #48

Were all of the weapons turned in illegally possessed? oneshooter May 2012 #53

What does any of that have to do with anything? Starboard Tack May 2012 #62

Why should some politician risk his career over a pair of pocket pistols? gejohnston May 2012 #63

Maybe I missed something. Starboard Tack May 2012 #66

Mayor in photo op at station or office gejohnston May 2012 #70

Sons of Liberty? gejohnston May 2012 #29

Some of the guns are not even worth the value of the gift cards... Maine23 May 2012 #4

If I can find a bunch of gejohnston May 2012 #5

Would not doubt you'd take advantage of this worthy program for your own profit. Hoyt May 2012 #10

Hey, they still get off the street gejohnston May 2012 #11

I have used one of these for my own profit before Travis_0004 May 2012 #13

I don't think the idea was for you to use it to buy a more lethal weapon, but then you guys Hoyt May 2012 #15

I was never told what I was or was not allowed to do with the money Travis_0004 May 2012 #35

Members of the gun culture are not nearly as morally pure as some here like to contend. Hoyt May 2012 #9

+1,000,000,000 baldguy May 2012 #16

let me fix that for you gejohnston May 2012 #18

Then fine, you have little need for a gun if you avoid those folks. Yet you still pack and promote Hoyt May 2012 #24

yes and no gejohnston May 2012 #27

A liberal criminologist with credentials that *far* exceed yours and mine Simo 1939_1940 May 2012 #20

More of the "b" word from you, I see. n/t PavePusher May 2012 #58

Mirror, mirror, on the wall... PavePusher May 2012 #57

So I guess you support making money off an honest attempt by city government to help control crime? Hoyt May 2012 #59

Easy way to prevent that, ya know- just stop these security theater 'buybacks'. friendly_iconoclast May 2012 #73

At bottom, it's a bet that any of those guns would have ever been used harmfully, petronius May 2012 #6

How much do you want to bet ManiacJoe May 2012 #7

You know how scary a used LAW rocket tube is! oneshooter May 2012 #8

How much you want to bet it's not? baldguy May 2012 #21

It would be a huge miscarriage of justice if someone who had a stolen real, live, military weapon... slackmaster May 2012 #22

Why isn't it a miscarriage of justice when any firearm is stolen & turned in like this? baldguy May 2012 #31

How dare you misattribute my position? I've made my opinion on buy-backs abundantly clear, baldguy. slackmaster May 2012 #36

I think my representation of your position entirely accurate. baldguy May 2012 #38

I think giving people a way to dispose of potential evidence of crimes... slackmaster May 2012 #42

So, I didn't misrepresent your position at all, in any way. baldguy May 2012 #43

Nope. Your title on reply #31 misrepresents my position. I'll explain it to you one more time. slackmaster May 2012 #55

I am in for $10 since the article specified that that there was no rocket with it. ManiacJoe May 2012 #30

"The article"? Which one of the six different articles I've posted are you referring to? baldguy May 2012 #32

The one in the OP, of course. ManiacJoe May 2012 #34

They didn't get mine era veteran May 2012 #52

I bet you a thousand dollars. AtheistCrusader May 2012 #61

Hoyt is not accepting my $10 bet. ManiacJoe May 2012 #68

You seem to have forgotten your phony 'bet'... friendly_iconoclast May 2012 #72

I'll take that bet. Angleae May 2012 #80

Hopefully they'll sell these soon. ileus May 2012 #17

I don't think that is the idea, but I'm sure you are crying over all those guns going to "waste." Hoyt May 2012 #25

wouldn't count on it. gejohnston May 2012 #28

My brother bought almost 300 from the county several years back ileus May 2012 #37

Guns aren't like pets... ellisonz May 2012 #45

Both require care and feeding. ManiacJoe May 2012 #46

Guns never wake you up in the middle of the night... ileus May 2012 #51

They don't sell them. They melt them down and make artwork. Starboard Tack May 2012 #49

A rocket launcher without a rocket is just an empty tube. N/T GreenStormCloud May 2012 #26

I see a Troll Science comic coming out of this. NewMoonTherian May 2012 #33

Estes model rockets. Remmah2 May 2012 #40

Oooooo, thank you!! PavePusher May 2012 #60

I have a couple of LAW tubes hanging in the tack shed. oneshooter May 2012 #41

A man without a rocket launcher is just a man. N/T Starboard Tack May 2012 #50

That is a trivial amount of guns. Much ado about very little. GreenStormCloud May 2012 #47

Wonder how many will wind up drop guns. nt Union Scribe May 2012 #54

hmm... DragonBorn May 2012 #64

Great thread. Major Hogwash May 2012 #65

Me too. I have some old junk guns I would love to exchange for gift cards. N/T GreenStormCloud May 2012 #67

I've never heard of old junk guns before. Major Hogwash May 2012 #69

ellisonz you and I do not hold the same.... WinniSkipper May 2012 #71

Just goes to show how overtaken with dogmatism some posters here are... ellisonz May 2012 #74

We are in good company gejohnston May 2012 #75

Actually, I do question the idea that somthing that one person calls "common sense" is automatically slackmaster May 2012 #76

You're going to compare democracy with the scientific method and measuring tools? ellisonz May 2012 #77

actually, gejohnston May 2012 #78

Yes, in a sense that may be too abstract for you to understand without some help slackmaster May 2012 #79

You are perfectly free to regard Sergeant Colon as a role model: friendly_iconoclast May 2012 #81

How many of these "guns" were locked up on a Hollywood Glassunion May 2012 #82

Ha! I had forgotten that one: "LAPD gets swindled, buys back de-milled movie replicas" friendly_iconoclast May 2012 #84

"That's 1,673 guns that won't be stolen" Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 #83

Here's a closeup of the big, bad, scary, rocket launcher. Note the word "TRAINER" on it! Johnny Rico May 2012 #85