ban military assault rifles (already are), machine guns (already are),30 round clips (no such thing) and every other dumbass thing they've brought up...let their ignorance be their undoing so we can get on to something that will make a differance, like locking up criminals. word for word.
Except that won't happen. If you ban all of those things, the next time some school shooting happens, they will just add more things to add to the ban list. People who are predisposed to think that inanimate objects cause massacres rather than people with motivations are never going to conclude anything other than the object(s) are responsible.
word for word, other Mike...ban and restrict things that are already banned or restricted. i've never seen a clip that holds more than 10 rounds.
I have 4 25rd mags for my 10/22. used to have 2 30rd mags..but they were junk. The 25 rd mags work like a slick whistle
I believe he's drawing a distinction between "magazines" and "clips" (stripper clips). Under that reasoning, let the ignorant morons ban clips. As far as I know, stripper clips don't hold more than 10 rounds. Clever
Yeah, right. Because locking up people is working so great for America so far. In my opinion the real problem in America is a combination of social problems and a culture that glorifies the loner who rises up against whatever, basically. Now, most Europeans would probably suggest you target those problems by doing things as we do them over here. I, on the other hand, like America and how it's pretty much about self-governing people. (At least it should be, IMHO.) So I'd try and target the social problems by going for more liberty, instead of more laws and restrictions. Not possible, you think? Well, in my opinion the war on drugs, the ban of prostitution, and the general "tough on crime" nonsense are actually causing a lot of the reasons, why people do things like joining gangs and other criminal groups. Those are issues where more liberty could potentially help solving many social problems.
I'd prefer a society where I did not worry about my safety inside my own home. Unfortunately, thanks to progressives and their open immigration policies... Public rapes used to be unheard of a few decades ago. Now many women in the big cities are carrying rubber bullet guns in their purses. The local police have been swamped with permit applications.
if you keep them locked up, they can't reoffend while they're locked up. that in turn makes it easier for police to chase those in the criminal element that aren't locked up at the moment because there's less of them.
if you meet one of those women, remind them to be careful when aiming. at point blank range, those rubber bullets will break a face, or destroy a knee if fired at the side and their assailant will never be able to chase a bus, much less a victim.
It's funny, but maybe legalized prostitution would have prevented at least some of the mass killings: One Goh, who killed those nursing students in Oakland. He was described as having no social skills, isolated, and couldn't get a date to save his life. And if you look at the pictures of his victims, the majority were extremely hot. It wasn't just a cross sampling of nursing students. These were really pretty ones. So I don't know, maybe if he had an outlet it might have prevented this. And of course James Holmes, who was socially outcast as well. Getting laid isn't going to solve all of the world's problems, but it's a start.
That's very short-sighted. Locking people up is expensive and it seems many (if not most) come out of prison being worse criminals afterwards. I also think physically locking up people who are not a physical danger to anyone should stop altogether.
So where are the statistics that show that it pays off? I doubt that you're doing better than before the late 80s / early 90s, when you started locking up so man people.
What good are laws if they are not enforced by the people in a community? Would a small farming hamlet in rural Germany allow a gang to come in, sell narcotics on the corner, do drive by shootings of anyone who opposes them, and then not arrest or prosecute them? Of course not. The crime problems here in America are almost exclusively in ethnic urban hell-holes. The criminals don't care about the laws for drugs, guns or violence. They almost certainly will not be held accountible by the morally debased people and leaders in their city, most of the time. Their thinking is that "It's not my fault." Why not do anything you want if you can get away with it? There are no bad guns, just bad people.
