RE: Another Gun Thread
May 23, 2019 at 8:14 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2019 at 8:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don;t think that anyone who fantasizes about shooting people can be trusted with a gun either, btw...instinctively it seems risky, but if we're talking real solutions to real problems we have to acknowledge the fact that those people don't actually end up using their guns for what they imagine they would (no more so than the midlife crisis mobile finds it's way to a race track, lol). They gather dust....
....but, when Cletus needs to get a fancy new gun with MORE MANSTOPPING POWAH.......he commonly sells the old one to finance a portion of the cost. This, Brian, this is how the guns who end up killing people get into the hands of people who kill people. Mostly, because the people who end up killing people can't afford a new gun, or buy one at the walmart counter....and manufacturers sure as shit aren't interested in direct selling to them.
Guns move from rural, completely legal, and very safe buyers into the grey and black market pipelines, winding up in densely populated areas when their resale value dips below a certain point (that varies state by state, as does criminal preference for specific models). Then, they get passed from one criminal hand to another until they're removed by confiscation.
....but, when Cletus needs to get a fancy new gun with MORE MANSTOPPING POWAH.......he commonly sells the old one to finance a portion of the cost. This, Brian, this is how the guns who end up killing people get into the hands of people who kill people. Mostly, because the people who end up killing people can't afford a new gun, or buy one at the walmart counter....and manufacturers sure as shit aren't interested in direct selling to them.
Guns move from rural, completely legal, and very safe buyers into the grey and black market pipelines, winding up in densely populated areas when their resale value dips below a certain point (that varies state by state, as does criminal preference for specific models). Then, they get passed from one criminal hand to another until they're removed by confiscation.
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