All Hail the Second Amendment

[Captain Colostomy]

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.

[Minimalist]

Hey, Iowa lets blind people carry guns.

[Captain Colostomy]

The carry part is what kills me. Maybe literally.

[Creed of Heresy]

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.

[Captain Colostomy]

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.

[Doubting Thomas]

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

[kılıç_mehmet]

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.

[justin]

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.

[Minimalist]

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.

[Doubting Thomas]

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.