Quote from Crispy:
I dont have the answers. There are already laws on the books covering everything concerning guns. A new law certainly isnt the answer. Wackos and crooks will procure weapons...period.
How do you screen someone for an act they may commit in the future? Impossible.
As tragic as random shootings are, and this is not to sound flip, they may be unavoidable. Just like getting creamed by some drunk driving the wrong way on the highway or buying a soda at the same moment the store the moment its getting held up or walking under a building and a damn piece of scafolding takes you out.
How do you prescreen random tragedy? I do not know. But we should focus on the good people first and not strip rights for the sake of "capitalizing on a tragedy" The crooks and nuts will be dealt with..whether it be written or natural law.
Quote from Maverick74:
Generally speaking Ricter, those who have the most to lose, are the most fearful. That is the US in a nutshell. I don't see poor blacks on the south side of Chicago building fences around their mansions to keep people out do you?
Quote from Trader666:
Not according the the Second Amendment.
Quote from Ricter:
Which brings us around to the topic of rising inequity! (I do not believe in perfection, ie. "equality".) You didn't think you were going to squeeze the commie out of me, did you? : )
Quote from omegapoint:
as far as your apptitude for judgement goes. I don't know what your'e for but I'm for protecting the lives of kids. Better screening and a limit on rounds.
And Las Vegas Sands of course is a fly by night pink sheet
issue. Mid Feb. then I'll eat crow or not.
Quote from Maverick74:
It always comes full circle doesn't it? Ricter, I've learned repeatedly on this site that you can't squeeze the commie out of any of our left wing friends on ET. They hold on to their inner commie really really tight.
Quote from Ricter:
It's quite enlightening to truly accept that you very probably cannot change the other guy's mind! But it's not new; as I've quoted before:
"It is discouraging to talk with men who will recognize no principles. How little use is made of reason in this world! You argue with a man for an hour, he agrees with you step by step, you are approaching a triumphant conclusion, you think that you have converted him; but ah, no, he has a habit, he takes a pinch of snuff, he remembers that he entertained a different opinion at the commencement of the controversy, and his reverence for the past compels him to reitereate it now."
Henry David Thoreau, from his journals.