Relaxing Gun Control
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Relaxing Gun Control
I find it quite bizarre with all the attention on safety and terrorism when States are relaxing gun controls. I have a feeling this won't reduce deaths.
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Re: Relaxing Gun Control
I think that, having decided to ban death panels, folks in the US realise that suicide has to be as easy & painless as possible. (Not necessarily easy for the cleanup crew, of course..)
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Re: Relaxing Gun Control
I have a CC permit, not that difficult to get, not quite sure what the issue here is?
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Re: Relaxing Gun Control
Relaxing gun control doesn't prevent deaths, tightening it doesn't prevent deaths. It's a cultural problem, not an enforcement problem.
Anyway, I think there are far more pressing issues than guns (climate change, FFS) and others that can be addressed (poverty, housing, unemployment, healthcare) that might reduce some of the criminality that leads to the deaths.
Anyway, I think there are far more pressing issues than guns (climate change, FFS) and others that can be addressed (poverty, housing, unemployment, healthcare) that might reduce some of the criminality that leads to the deaths.
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Re: Relaxing Gun Control
Pregnant woman among 7 killed in Chicago's deadliest day this year - Chicago Tribune
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Re: Relaxing Gun Control
I find it quite bizarre with all the attention on safety and terrorism when States are relaxing gun controls. I have a feeling this won't reduce deaths.
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Amused that if guns are all so great, why politicians are so scared of doing town hall meets because of safety...
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The biggest irony is that people that have concealed carry rights, whether by permit or blanket right, are very rarely the problem. The vast majority of shootings are either in private and therefore concealed carry is irrelevant, or are by criminals who are either previously convicted felons who are therefore automatically prohibited from carrying a gun, or will be when they have been caught and convicted (typically of drug trafficking or gang activities).
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A lot of the people that are shot by their kids(toddlers) are CC holders.
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The amount of training to get a CC permit in a lot of States is minimal at the best. You take that away and people become even more careless with their guns.
You should not leave a gun in a place where a toddler can get hold of it, or anyone else for that matter. Guns require respect.
You should not leave a gun in a place where a toddler can get hold of it, or anyone else for that matter. Guns require respect.
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There is no gun control in the US full stop.
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The amount of training to get a CC permit in a lot of States is minimal at the best. You take that away and people become even more careless with their guns.
You should not leave a gun in a place where a toddler can get hold of it, or anyone else for that matter. Guns require respect.
You should not leave a gun in a place where a toddler can get hold of it, or anyone else for that matter. Guns require respect.
You have just proved what Boiler and I said above - concealed carry is irrelevant in the scenarios you describe. Anyone can buy a gun and keep it at home, no training is required, and if they have a concealed carry permit it is coincidental because it certainly isn't necessary.
That isn't true, and I think you know it!
There isn't as much gun control in the US as you would like, nor in fact as much as I would like, but that doesn't mean there is "no gun control".
Last edited by Pulaski; Feb 24th 2017 at 9:31 pm.