PA has shite for laws. Any jackass with a gun and a hip can carry. My little bro with three tours of PTSD to work through carries one constantly. I about lost it when I saw him sleeping in my geriatric mother's apartment, gun half out his waist band. Insanity.

Hey, Iowa lets blind people carry guns.

The carry part is what kills me. Maybe literally.

Can they PLEASE, for the love of fuck, PLEASE just get some new god-damn regulations on guns already?? Not a few, either, but like...lots??

For fuck's sake, when one of the most gun-equipped members on this site is going "DUDE. REGULATIONS. SERIOUSLY." you know that it's time to finally instate some meaningful and effective [and perhaps even heavy-handed] measures against this shit.

I'm waiting for Jared Diamond's book Guns, God and Gerrymandering: An Autopsy of a Once Great Nation* to hit the shelves to help me fill in the pieces.

*I made it up, but it sounds plausible.

The sad part is that there are more regulations & tests for getting a driver's license than to be able to own a gun.

(September 27, 2013 at 8:46 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: The sad part is that there are more regulations & tests for getting a driver's license than to be able to own a gun.

Well, I'd say its only fair. Car crashes do probably result into more deaths, and most people have a license to drive it.
However most deaths occur in the case of the irresponsibility of the drivers, and some, due to very bad luck.

Same for guns, I'd say.

(January 4, 2013 at 3:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Beware of complete twats with guns.

Makes them dangerous.

So does knives, fertilizer bombs, sticks, rocks, swords, and a dysfunctional personality. Blame the guy, not the gun. Media focuses on the negative side things for a reason. It gets more attention. Would you support the amendment if he saved someone from being stabbed to death? I doubt it.

No. I'll give you the fertilizer bomb....although idiots like that probably have a closet of full of guns, too.

But a gun makes the 98-lb weakling with feelings of inadequacy a "big man" and it really takes no skill whatsoever to use one.

If you really think a rock or a stick is as dangerous as a gun I think you need to reconsider.

You really think that someone is going to be as dangerous with a rock, stick, or even a knife as they would spraying & praying with a semi-automatic firearm?

True, fertilizer bombs are illegal but how often do nutjobs use ANFO to commit mass murder compared to using a gun? I can think of exactly one instance that happened a ways south of me almost 20 years ago. However, we seem to be plagued with stories of gun violence every week.