Reply #96: goodness, I don't think you've ever asked me!

[iverglas]

I've issued this challenge several times....
...once more wont' hurt. Please, tell us your plan. Tell us how IT will work, when similar plans to stop pot, liquor, heroin, porn, gambling, you fukcing name it, have not.

"Similar plans"? How can you know what someone's plan is similar to, when you don't even know what it is? Spew straw, much?

Do a little searchy on my name, and you will find much. You want to look for things like

regulations requiring safe/secure storage of firearms
legislation requiring licensing of individuals seeking to acquire/possess firearms
legislation requiring registration of firearms ownership/transfers

Oh, and strict controls on acquisition and possession of handguns, the criminal/murderer's weapon of choice. Preferably no acquisition and possession of handguns. Not an easy thing to implement when your country is awash in the bloody things, but the longest journey starts with a single step and all that. And in the meantime, there are always

regulations requiring safe/secure storage of firearms
legislation requiring licensing of individuals seeking to acquire/possess firearms
legislation requiring registration of firearms ownership/transfers

Tell me why you get all indignant at wiretaps and such, when they might in fact help some, but you, like I are not willing to GIVE UP ESSENTIAL FREEDOMS in a vain quest to make a risk free world.

Hell, it's such a vain quest that we must immediately eliminate all speed limits, not to mention seatbelt legislation. Dastardly interference with those ESSENTIAL FREEDOMS.

Risk reduction ... nah, that's just something somebody made up so they could take away your guns ESSENTIAL FREEDOMS.

Poor old Ben. If only he were around so you could ask him what he thinks of firearms control, right here right now, and not what he thought about something completely unrelated in that funny old world he actually lived in. Poor us, we have to live in this one. Some of us prefer to make our own rules for how to do it, and even think it's our duty to do that instead of spouting things said by dead old white guys about entirely different issues in an entirely different world ... and I'd be willing to bet that Ben would agree. Not that I'd care.

You anti gun people have hamstrung the Democratic party long enough. Put up or shut the fuck up!

Well, not being a Democrat or even a resident of the country that party operates in, I guess I can't do the former, but if you think I'd be doing the latter on instructions from you if I were, you'd be sadly deluded.

There actually are Democrats, and people in general, in the US, who aren't nasty self-interested little toads constantly harping on about their own "freedoms" and not giving a shit about anyone else. I'm quite sure of it. I've enjoyed reading a few in this thread.