RE: Murder in Michigan
July 9, 2011 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2011 at 1:47 am by Minimalist.)
(July 9, 2011 at 12:28 am)Rayaan Wrote:(July 8, 2011 at 8:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I guess that is the American equivalent to "stoning the bitch" that I chide Rayaan about. Rayaan, I'm sorry. We just use higher tech stones.
Yeah, the difference being that the stones that we use are used as a weapon against sin. I doubt if the higher tech stones will be as much effective as the original one.
You're going to make me regret giving you any credit at all....aren't you?
Quote:True, I think it would be dishonest to make the claim that shooting deaths would remain the same if gun ownership were banned.
Cinj, that's the boogeyman argument. There is an enormous difference between "banning" and "registration." We register cars and there are cars all over the fucking place. They are not illegal but we have some small idea that the people operating them had demonstrated some minor ability to do so at one time....no matter how much the fucks seem to have forgotten in the meantime.
But the right-wing psychos are against regulation/registration/background checks/childproof locks/ etc., etc. The only thing they are for are armor piercing bullets, 30 round clips and full automatic.
I'm sorry man...when their response to a school shooting is to arm the students it is too fucking much!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinio...yt&emc=rss
Quote:Finally, the gun lobby has filed two lawsuits in federal court in Lubbock, Tex., to compel the State of Texas to allow young people between the ages of 18 and 20 years old to buy handguns and carry them concealed in public places.
The first suit challenges the longstanding federal law prohibiting licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to anyone under 21 years old. The second case contests a Texas law setting 21 as the minimum age for carrying a concealed weapon.
