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In reply to the discussion: A law abiding gun owner was responsible for Newtown. [View all]Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)12. agreed to a point
If change means banning hand guards on a rifle, or banning rifles or pistols for looks, I think that is wrong.
If you are into banning weapons at least ban by the function of the weapon and not what looks scary.
If change means looking at what the problem is, mainly handguns, and trying to enforce sensible restrictions, I am all for it.
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I agree. We live in a gun culture, and all of its enablers are complicit in these senseless deaths.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#6
We've had all of those things you just listed in our society for a very long time.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#11
It's hard to get people to accept anything but the most obvious & direct connections between
patrice
Jan 2013
#8
I want to respect gun owners' rights as much as possible. For that to happen, they need to
patrice
Jan 2013
#33
Agreed. Ban it. Get yourself a big stick and tie a butter knife to the end of it.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#43
Amendments have been repealed before. That pesky one doesn't make a lot of sense today.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#20
My car is registered and insured and I have to renew my driver's license on a regular basis.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#46
You do not need a registration and insurance for a car if it does not go on public roads.
hack89
Jan 2013
#56
Yep, she certainly was, as was the lack of real control, which allows unfettered access to such
jmg257
Jan 2013
#61
Doesn't REALLY matter what HIS motive was now does it? As it pertains to this conversation?
jmg257
Jan 2013
#67
Waaaaa. We weren't talking about root cause. We were talking about how his Mom's guns
jmg257
Jan 2013
#72
Not as it relates to this thread, which deals with responsibility in how he got the guns.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#71
Hmm...but he didn't steal someone else's guns did he? So who's guns did he steal?
jmg257
Jan 2013
#68
Yep - so just maybe NOT owning them would have turned out MUCH better for her, him
jmg257
Jan 2013
#83
Agreed...except that traffic accident fataties don't surpass gun related deaths by much
jmg257
Jan 2013
#101
Its actually talked about quite a bit. And only a very small percentage are accidents.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#105