RE: Murder in Michigan
July 9, 2011 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm by Violet.)
(July 9, 2011 at 4:12 pm)LastPoet Wrote: The point is not to end gun deaths, it is to DECREASE them. Even if increasing the difficulty of getting guns saved only one life it would be worth it. I don't say to prohibit them completely, but make it harder to get. To have a gun here legally for instance, you need a physical and psychiatric evaluation, then take a few lessons on handling guns
Whereas to obtain a firearm illegally... all you need is to know people and have a little money.
And one life is worth squat diddly. Especially at the cost of gross inconvenience for everyone else.
It is not hard to get a gun in America. Not even a little. If what you want is *fast* and *easy* and *cheap*... what you *do not* do is the legal thing. The legal thing is what you do if you have any desire to be kosher in the eyes of your government. Where you spend more money for the security in what you purchase and you are willing for it to take a long time and expect to work hard to get it.
I'm going legal for my body's sake and all my surgeries... I would not ever go legal for my weapons.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
