Gun Control & RKBA

PavePusher

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45. Only a very few (and generally very well-to-do) people own "military-grade assault rifles".

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 09:25 AM

Dec 2012

You seem to be unfamiliar with the laws and the technology. Those are not the firearms under debate.

Registration will not stop theft and unauthorized access. Registration is also illegal at the Federal level, not a loophole at all.

How do you define "arsenal"? If you want it to have a specific legal meaning, you'll have to quantify it and explain how having X guns is fine, but X+1 is not.

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Off-duty deputy praised for taking down gunman at Mayan 14 theater [View all] shadowrider Dec 2012 OP

Correction... Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #1

She had a gun in a gun free zone. The gun stopped the perp. He got shot, he wasn't talked shadowrider Dec 2012 #2

A trained police officer Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #5

or NYPD gejohnston Dec 2012 #7

The real world says different. GreenStormCloud Dec 2012 #10

The training that made the difference probably wasn't shooting training. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #11

Agreed! Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #13

And yet, we do not reserve armed self-defense to the sole provence of the police. PavePusher Dec 2012 #28

Who are you defending yourself against? Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #32

Only a very few (and generally very well-to-do) people own "military-grade assault rifles". PavePusher Dec 2012 #45

I am not making technological Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #46

There are plenty of rational reasons for it, you just don't like them. PavePusher Dec 2012 #47

No, we differ in opinion on what is rational Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #48

Please cite to evidence that supports your assertion. n/t PavePusher Dec 2012 #18

How much training does it take to recognize a bad person and shoot them? Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #20

In close quarters Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #33

And so far, this has not been a problem. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #34

if it were New York gejohnston Dec 2012 #3

Does the training involve Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #4

have to ask a Texan gejohnston Dec 2012 #6

The closest thing I have seen Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #14

if it is the case I'm thinking of gejohnston Dec 2012 #17

Joseph Zimudie was in a Walgreens across the parking lot. PavePusher Dec 2012 #25

His own words... Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #35

Wrong. Clames Dec 2012 #8

Well, there was that incident in NY not long ago shadowrider Dec 2012 #9

Yes, police screw up all time Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #15

If you can find an example of such a situation, please post it. n/t PavePusher Dec 2012 #23

Average armed Joes make things worse all the time Kelvin Mace Dec 2012 #16

If you can find evidence of a Citizen in a lawful self-defense incident "making things worse"..... PavePusher Dec 2012 #27

Ask Trayvon Martin's parents that question jpak Dec 2012 #37

As I say below, her experience was probably the big factor. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #12

I'm tired of this idea that police officers are magical unicorns. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #19

Agreed. armueller2001 Dec 2012 #21

Exactly. There are no atheists in foxholes. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #22

I'm tired of "more guns are the answer" magical bullshit jpak Dec 2012 #26

Yet nearly every time one of these shootings happens, it stops because of someone with a gun. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #31

Law enforcement - not some douchebag vigilante yahoo jpak Dec 2012 #36

I do not believe that law enforcemenet officers are some kind of magical unicorn. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #38

and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that douchebag vigilantes jpak Dec 2012 #39

Like this douchebag vigilante? Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #40

Your gun hero hid behind a post - and did not "confront" the shooter jpak Dec 2012 #41

"hid behind a post".... PavePusher Dec 2012 #42

And did exactly what you just claimed they would not do. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #44

Stop with the reality stuff already. jpak Dec 2012 #24

Just stop jehop61 Dec 2012 #29

(Checks around...) Yep, still the RKBA forum. PavePusher Dec 2012 #43

She was off-duty working as security at the theater bigbrother05 Dec 2012 #30