Another Gun Thread

[onlinebiker]

Yea, but even with me, even with my depression and anxiety, just like drunks, our laws DO NOT prevent my dad, or me, when there is no record, from legally purchasing a firearm when we have no record.

Well, technically, they would prevent your dad from buying a gun, today....but why should they prevent you?  Are you a felon?  Domestic abuser?  You gonna shoot somebody?  Are you a danger to yourself and others?  

This fucking bullshit of "rights" is just that. It isn't illegal to fly a passenger jet. But you damned sure don't want to hire an alcoholic, domestic abuser, religious terrorist, ect ect ect flying that jet.

I'm not sure what bullshit of rights you're referring to....but broadly speaking, rights are not bullshit, and I have all the rights listed, and many others not listed.  OFC we don;t want those people flying jets.  We don't really want them possessing guns either....and there are laws on the books to prevent them from doing so, which the gun industry unanimously supports.  Aint nobody trying to sell Seamus or Achmed a gun.  

Our problem is OBVIOUS. The industry does not give a fuck about where their products end up. If logic worked the way the industry sold it, then my dad could have become a American Airline's pilot just by walking into human resources and saying "I want to fly a passenger jet" and American Airlines responding, "Ok, we won't test you, we'll simply give you the licence because you asked for it."

-there you go again.  No matter how many times I explain to you that the facts do not bear out the corporate handwringing, you will insist that the problem is simple, and obvious.

It may be, but if so, it's simply and obviously not the problem you think it is.....and what are the odds that you'e going to effect that problem by taking action against something that doesn't correlate to the problem?  Are you under the mistaken impression that gun sales are a direct to consumer model...the analogy seems to suggest that you are.

Gun sales ARE direct to consumer - but only for new model releases. ( the latest and greatest).

IME - in a gun shop environment - new guns account less than 1/2 of sales. 

I can count the guns I've bought new on my fingers.

Used? I have no idea.....