Alate_One
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No. Didn't bother to read my other posts did you? I think we need more regulations to reduce harm from firearms.
Texas mother and Guns Rights advocate shoots and kills both daughters in the street.
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No. Didn't bother to read my other posts did you? I think we need more regulations to reduce harm from firearms.
Alate_One
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And one of the more reliable ways for children to be killed or seriously injured in the home if they're found loaded. Every state should have laws on the books holding parents responsible for accidental firearm deaths involving kids.
256 kids were shot accidentally last year, 83 of those being fatal. How many homeowners protected themselves over the same period?
Sort of like swimming pools, bath tubs, rooftops, electrical outlets, aspirin, etc.
It says that one of these things is not like the others. False analogy. If we really want to keep people safe we should lock them up with a cot and a commode and give them food and water through a slot in the door.
They already are carefully regulated. You used to be able to buy a machine gun through mail order.
Then you would vote to repeal the Second Amendment. Accept it.
Which is why I think that mouse guns should be banned and confiscated, because they are disproportionately used to commit crimes and suicides, and they are, IMO, informed by SCOTUS cases, not protected by the Second Amendment since they serve no military value and no militaries use them.
They should be reserved for LEO work (undercover, where deep concealment is required) only.
Agreed. Once the police arrive, you hopefully don't need to be holding it anymore anyway. Holster it or drop it and put your hands up and cooperate.
jeffblue101
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and exactly what are the regulations that could have been passed that would have stopped this women from owning a handgun, or are you just looking to prey on emotions in order to advocate more gun regulations that have nothing to do with news story linked in the OP.
Mouse guns are easier to lose track of, easier to conceal to commit crimes, easier to shoot oneself with, and easier for an innocent child to operate, than firearms with military value.
It seems that the further we get into this topic, the closer anti-RKBA people come to requiring something like the "Precogs" in the movie Minority Report in order to "reasonably" regulate firearms.
Precogs are fictional. We can't know that this or that person is going to commit a crime with a firearm. The answer is not, therefore, that nobody should be allowed to own or carry them. That's specifically what the Second Amendment recognizes (authoritatively, according to the SCOTUS), and what anti-RKBA people deny.
Of course. :thumb:
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
eider
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Because the only things I wanted of my father's were sentimental items ...
eider
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When is the last time that you can remember when a gun kept you safer?
What sort of gun was it?
October of 1988....Colt Python .357, blued with walnut target grips and a 4" barrel. I and my ex-girlfriend are alive, whole and unmolested because of it.
Feral Phoenician
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"God made big men, and God made small men, but Samuel Colt made them equal".
Glad you and her are OK. If it was a situation dangerous enough to warrant either the brandishing, or even use, of a firearm, it was serious.
Four men with knives....Yeah, it was bad.
lain:I'm not going to go too much into it because of the laws being what they were at the time they possibly would have thrown ME in jail....As sad as that is.
Feral Phoenician
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Geez...Four men with knives....Yeah, it was bad.
I'm not going to go too much into it because of the laws being what they were at the time they possibly would have thrown ME in jail....As sad as that is.
Oh sure, you should have called the police with your nonexistent cell phone (1988 and all), and been stabbed to death while waiting, rather than brandish your gun in public.
Those laws are ridiculous. One of my very good friends is from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and he taught me a wonderful old Southern saying; "It is better to be judged by twelve, than carried by six".
Road rage incidents
This is true...If ya gotta have one or the other, I'll take the first option.