BULLDOG
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The claim that thugs use illegal guns is really dumb. Sure some of the guns they use are illegal, but many are bought from individual sellers. With no record keeping of any kind, how is anybody going to know how many guns you sold this year? They aren't even required to give a receipt. There is a massive difference between responsible reasonable gun owners (me) and hair on fire gun nuts who think any common sense regulation means someone will take everybody's guns.
well how am i supposed to disagree with this? not sure what you're looking for.
thugs do in fact use illegal guns. if a "seller" is doing it on a consistent basis by using the "loophole" then this is illegal already. people will steal guns and sell them. happens all the time. fast n furious was a huge example of gun mis-management obama got away with by intimidating anyone who questioned him.
but the # of crimes committed by people who got their guns from the gun show loophole is minimal. looked it up once and several officers and people in the "business" so to speak had it around 2% if i remember correctly. may not be 2% exactly but it was damn low to make the entire issue of the gun show loophole nothing more than a sideshow for a bigger intent.
you don't stop the water from breaking out of the damn by stopping the smallest leak.
every gun owner i know is responsible. then again i don't hang out in hoods or with people who have them on their coffee tables next to the herion either. every gun owner i know wants the same thing - people to respect the guns and care for / use them properly but we have emotional people making issues where they don't exist to fix problems we don't have until they made it one to fix so they can fix nothing and tell their constituents they passed a law.
see colorado banning high capacity magazines and the senator doing it saying once you use one you throw it away so the ones >10 will go away on their own.
someone like this has zero business even talking gun laws, much less trying to pass them. but they do. katie couric - she has zero issue making shit up and passing it off as truth and anti-gun people flock to it for no other reason than it's what they want to hear.
crap like that is why we have the division in our gun laws and why we can't have "common sense" laws. the radial left won't do with any less than total control and the radical right pulls a gun and says "try to take it".
so here we are stuck in the middle of extremist bullshit just trying to claw our way to some form of sanity but in fact, no one side will ever be happy on this.
You were doing pretty good until that "the radial left won't do with any less than total control" crap. We both know that is not going to happen, but the NRA has convinced their gun nuts that it is imminent.