Majority of Americans Favor Gun Control Laws, Poll Shows

[Lucrum]

Quote from bigarrow:

Don't want to rock the boat for you, but they already ban firearms and weapons, full automatic weapons, explosives, etc. If you guys are going to bitch and moan get serious and demand some real fire power. If not being able to have a 30 round clip is hurting your constitutional rights then banning fully automatic weapons is castrating your 2nd amendment rights.

Fully automatic weapons are not banned. They can be owned by private citizens willing to jump through the proper hoops. The military and many large police forces also posses full auto weapons.

If I was going to tell a roofer how to do his job, I'd make a point to study roofing first. Lest I embarrass myself running my mouth about something I know nothing about.

 

[hughb]

The Firearms Owner's Protection Act bans ownership by private citizens of fully automatic weapons that were not registered before May 19, 1986. It was signed into law by Ronald Reagan. Fully automatic weapons registered before that date are still legal.

 

[Trader666]

You're exactly right that it's the people. This bludgeoner turned sniper served 17 years for killing his grandmother with a hammer. In the note he left behind he said:

"I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."

http://news.yahoo.com/firemens-killer-left-chilling-note-deaths-3-223847945.html

But instead of working on ways to keep psychos like this locked up for good, liberals will release them and cite the shooting as another "reason" to ban "assault weapons" despite the fact that the Bushmaster he used was already illegal in NY and as a violent felon he wasn't allowed to possess weapons anyway. Which bolsters the argument that liberalism is a mental disorder itself but I digress.

Quote from maxpi:

I've taken the idea that "guns don't kill, people do" and expanded on it. I always thought it was a fairly bogus saying but nowadays I'm seeing that it leads to solution.

I studied psychopaths, and expanded it to the whole spectrum of people that fail to connect to their emotions in early childhood. I'm reading the accounts of these various shootings and seeing that if that certain immature swath of humanity were removed from the equation we wouldn't have ANY of these attacks. I can't think of a way to implement that other than some draconian measures applied to the psychos. At least if we did that measures would not need to be applied to mature citizens.

Diagnosing/databasing before they ever commit a crime and not allowing guns [or drivers licenses] to be in their possession might be one way to do it. If we got them identified before they did serious crimes it would be a big step up in quality of life for the rest of us. I don't think that most people realize what a big step that would be. I've written here before about my observations of the psychopaths and the ripple effect they have on the rest of humanity's feelings of happiness and wellbeing. It's a rather large effect that just one out of fifty has on us when they do half of all the serious crimes. They do lots of things that don't get them arrested that drag the rest of us down as well.

Read Dr. Hare's literature on the subject. He terms them "intraspecies predators" and my observations bear that out, there isn't better terminology for what they are. Allowing an intraspecies predator access to a weapon such as a handgun that is designed to kill the very species they prey on is REALLY STUPID..

 

[Trader666]

You wouldn't if you were a liberal

Quote from Lucrum:

If I was going to tell a roofer how to do his job, I'd make a point to study roofing first. Lest I embarrass myself running my mouth about something I know nothing about.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from hughb:

The Firearms Owner's Protection Act bans ownership by private citizens of fully automatic weapons that were not registered before May 19, 1986. It was signed into law by Ronald Reagan. Fully automatic weapons registered before that date are still legal.

Class 3 firearms include machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices and Any Other Weapons (AOWs).
The tax for privately manufacturing any class 3 firearms is $200. Transferring requires a $200 tax for all class 3s except AOW’s, for which the transfer tax is $5.
To legally possess a class 3 weapon you must complete a transfer of registration within the NFA registry.
There are two ways for you to legally buy a class 3 gun. The first is by transfer after approval by ATF of a registered weapon from its lawful owner residing in the same State as the transferee. The second is by obtaining prior approval from ATF to make NFA firearms.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

No . I accept the fact that this is a majority rules country though,makes life much easier then getting angry over policies I don't agree with

So if a ban is enacted will you voluntarily turn in your 30 round mags?
Or if prior ownership is grandfathered, will you maintain possession of them?

 

[bigarrow]

Quote from hughb:

The Firearms Owner's Protection Act bans ownership by private citizens of fully automatic weapons that were not registered before May 19, 1986. It was signed into law by Ronald Reagan. Fully automatic weapons registered before that date are still legal.

Quote from Lucrum:

Lest I embarrass myself running my mouth about something I know nothing about.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Lucrum:

So if a ban is enacted will you voluntarily turn in your 30 round mags?
Or if prior ownership is grandfathered, will you maintain possession of them?

1.Yes,I'm not going to risk a criminal conviction over a magazine


2. If prior ownership is grandfathered in I will keep them

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Trader7793:

Majority rule does not allow the govt to just ignore constitutional rights.

In reality it does.The Constitution has been shit on by both parties for over 150 years

 

[bigarrow]

Oh lukewarm, I'm doing adjusting work right now, so you can use a whole new line of insults about the work I do.