I agree there are a lot of bad laws out there. I disagree that the NRA is the "rational" one in the debate however. That's going to be a matter of point of view no matter what.
I think a waiting period is good simply for the cooling off effect. I have no idea if it statistically makes a difference or not, but I don't think a gun should ever be an impulse buy. Having said that, I like the idea of a national licensing set up that would allow you, with sufficient background monitoring to buy guys as you liked.
I agree about trigger locks, but I also think that gun owners who store their weapons inappropriately should be held accountable when they cause harm either accidentally or purposefully.
So you think that the US is going to devolve into 1930's Germany, or some sub Saharan African country? And even if that did happen, do you think that citizens would band together to defeat that? I doubt either one of those things would happen, times are different now then they were 200 years ago.
Don't have time to look into the dumping thing today, if I think of it, I will, you may very well be right on that one. My impression of what I read of the court cases was that there was very strong leanings that looked like dumping, but no beyond a shadow of a doubt proof.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that a tech-9 style gun is the same as my Glock22. I can defnd myself just as well with the glock and I don't need a 30 round mag in that configuration. If there's some practical reason to arrange the gun like that (and there may very well be, I'm not an expert), fine. Otherwise what's the point?
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Date: 2009-04-13 08:56 pm (UTC)I think a waiting period is good simply for the cooling off effect. I have no idea if it statistically makes a difference or not, but I don't think a gun should ever be an impulse buy. Having said that, I like the idea of a national licensing set up that would allow you, with sufficient background monitoring to buy guys as you liked.
I agree about trigger locks, but I also think that gun owners who store their weapons inappropriately should be held accountable when they cause harm either accidentally or purposefully.
So you think that the US is going to devolve into 1930's Germany, or some sub Saharan African country? And even if that did happen, do you think that citizens would band together to defeat that? I doubt either one of those things would happen, times are different now then they were 200 years ago.
Don't have time to look into the dumping thing today, if I think of it, I will, you may very well be right on that one. My impression of what I read of the court cases was that there was very strong leanings that looked like dumping, but no beyond a shadow of a doubt proof.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that a tech-9 style gun is the same as my Glock22. I can defnd myself just as well with the glock and I don't need a 30 round mag in that configuration. If there's some practical reason to arrange the gun like that (and there may very well be, I'm not an expert), fine. Otherwise what's the point?