In the data, I believe 'slaughter' is not addressed as a category but perhaps 'violent' encompasses it? What do you think?

Guilty! I can't help myself -- I am burdened with requiring facts and from them, derive a rational opinion. I recognize it prevents me from intuitively reaching for the stars, unbound by reason, logic or even facts. Here I plod in Real World. Where my opinion must adequately explain facts, not vice versa.


I haven't found comparative mass slaughter data. Maybe we can imagine what it should be and go from there.

Nobody is claiming that unregistered guns are not a danger.
This tangent is in response to Hattie claiming that the kid could have just gone to Hartford or New Haven and gotten a gun on the street corner. Also in response to Dubya when he posted about the ineffectiveness of handgun bans in DC... and BC when describing the handgun violence in NYC.
Registering weapons should create the ability to track the weapons history and expose the people who are putting them out on the streets.

All the weapons used in LEO firearm murders were registered?

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And that's happened once, precisely because it's a much more difficult procedure. The unfortunate boy/man in this story would not likely have found the skill to pull that one off.

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In progress. Be patient and I have absolutely no doubt you will have your wish come true in your life time.

By the way, I sold a pistol to a friend today. It was unregistered when I bought it at a store. My friend took the pistol home so he and his wife can shoot it. If he wants it he will pay me tomorrow.

I bought the pistol (a Ruger .22 semi-auto with a bull barrel) for about $120 new. He's paying me $200. Hell, inflation probably makes it worth $600!

I feel extremely good about the transaction.

Dude: the topic of the day is one twit rapidly bringing about the deaths of a bunch of people. I'm more OK with him punching a teacher or slashing at a couple of people with a knife. But at some point, we have to ask how much horsepower in killing capacity do we want people to possess or brandish with impunity? I suspect we'll not soon see former prison gang denizens driving about the streets with Somali style technicals.

'But, but,' howleth the Botnst, 'you're taking my rights guaranteed by contract and stuff.'

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It might help to have some actual data about the actual threat so that one could suggest actual solutions to actual problems.

Just saying.

Remember the videos of LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating? In some neighborhoods the only businesses left standing were the ones that the owners actively protected with personally owned firearms. Remember the videos of the guys with guns standing on the rooves firing to keep the looters and arsonists away? Ask those guys about your ideas.

We who have lived through collapse of services in the aftermath of a hurricane, etc feel pretty damned near the same way.

If we can have faddish platform shoes and wide lapels, or 2-toned Chevy Impalas we can have weapons fads.

I'll bet it's a fad. Explosives are easy to mix, obtain and use -- 1,000 Al Qaedstas can't all be geniuses, right? But the fad is to use firearms while explosives are so yesterday. Maybe we'll get lucky and have a blast.

If Americans got into a machete thing we'd do like Central Americans and hack at each other.

Like a car, registration, permits, licenses, etc are all about those who are willing to obey the rule of law. Personally I believe that gun owners should have a responsibility to insure themselves and others from the improper use of their possession. Of course, I can see where insurance companies might have an issue with this- getting to charge substantial rates- but I'll bet they would be happy to duke it out with the NRA. I'm sure something could be tacked onto the health care laws requiring citizens with legally owned guns to cough up a wad of dough to keep them.

As an aside-
Ct has some oddities to pistol permitting- the NRA basic pistol class is required for a pistol permit. The pistol permit means concealed carry. The basic NRA class however does not train for concealed carry or prepare the student for 'real life' situations. I've taken the basic course and no way did it qualify me for concealed carry. To carry a pistol to a range to practice though I need a pistol permit. How many permitted, untrained, unprepared persons are now lugging pistols around?

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If you like making fun of people for "conspiracy theory" you should google
"port arthur" conspiracy

There are a whole lot of people close to that incident who believe it was staged and can back their position.

Maybe while we're at it with the 'arm the teachers' movement, we should also require children to wear bullet proof vests. They can even make some "Hello Kitty" kevlar jackets for the girls, and "Mr. Superman" kevlars for the boys.

And we can all live happily ever after, as long as my right to bear is not infringed upon.

Reagan-era cuts slashed mental health care

If you google you will find numerous articles related to the Reagan era cuts to mental health funding. this is just the first article listed. The above institution happened to close before them but I believe a lot more closed afterward.

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Certainly teachers can be trusted with guns and handcuffs. But wait, what if one of them handcuffs and sodomizes a kid? Just go ahead and ban handcuffs now, just the thought of it... I guess we could always get the preachers to pray for them.

Now lets look at that by fatalities.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.