Too bad, 'Murrica.  Looks like you missed out on some more bang-bang fun.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/police-f...l-student/

Quote:Police find two machine guns after arrest of body armor-clad Missouri high school student

I'm sure he had a good reason.

(February 23, 2016 at 4:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know, when they investigate these incidents, they mostly find that the perps were most definitely not nuts.  Just assholes. Crazy people aren't shooting up daycares or their house, believe it or not. Calculating people with full command of their faculties are. Murderers, not co-victims of lunacy.

I guess that depends on your definition of crazy.

Uber driver murders 6 last week and yesterday another public shooter in Kansas. GAWED BWESS our flooded gun market.

(February 25, 2016 at 10:04 pm)KUSA Wrote:

(February 23, 2016 at 4:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know, when they investigate these incidents, they mostly find that the perps were most definitely not nuts.  Just assholes.  Crazy people aren't shooting up daycares or their house, believe it or not.  Calculating people with full command of their faculties are.  Murderers, not co-victims of lunacy.

I guess that depends on your definition of crazy.

Crazy is thinking it's about rights when it is about volume and lack of pragmatism.

We need a consolidated mass shootings thread, I think.

(February 26, 2016 at 9:42 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(February 25, 2016 at 10:04 pm)KUSA Wrote: I guess that depends on your definition of crazy.

Crazy is thinking it's about rights when it is about volume and lack of pragmatism.

We don't have a right to murder people.

(February 10, 2016 at 10:05 am)drfuzzy Wrote:

(February 10, 2016 at 9:55 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: ~300,000,000 Americans. ~600,000,000 guns.  Most Americans don't own one gun. Some of my cousins have "the Big Fifty Club", being the fifty people with the most guns. The average for that group is ~170 guns.  This may help show that the problem isn't as ubiquitous as it sounds.

Holy cow!  Who needs that many guns?  Wow.  You can only shoot two at a time!  And if you need to hit what you're shooting at, you would be better to use only one . . .

It's not a question of need.  Why does someone need more than one car?  Or 50 pairs of shoes? Or ...

There are collectors of all sorts of things, including guns.

It's rare that someone dies from getting hit by a shoe.

(February 10, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(February 10, 2016 at 10:03 am)drfuzzy Wrote: I bought one about a year ago - I just walked into the store, and handed over the credit card.  They didn't even ask to see my drivers' license.  

Did you report them? Any licensed dealer -- and all retail sellers are federally licensed -- must see your ID, have you complete a 4473, and he must also initiate a NICS check:  http://smartgunlaws.org/federal-law-on-b...nd-checks/

Your purchase was clearly handled in an illegal manner. Did you report it? Will you be doing so?

I was corrected on this recently, Thump.  It so happens that the possession of a firearms permit in some states (permit to purchase) obviates the point-of-sale NICS check.

A NICS check is performed for issuance and renewal of the license.

(February 26, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's rare that someone dies from getting hit by a shoe.

Not germane to my point.

My statement was about want vs. need.