Guns for nuts

[Timmyb]

This is the one area where who is elected president is very important.

You don't need to change an amendment if enough of the 9 monkeys on the supreme court will interpret the current amendment in the way you want.

Thats why the Repubs are holding off their "advise and consent" with a current replacement monkey.

Their hope is that we elect their guy as president, who will then select a monkey of their liking.

Legislating through the courts was never how the Founding Fathers intended this to work. The courts are supposed to enforce the laws, not rewrite or reinterpret them. Unfortunately, that's what seems to happen today.

[billf]

All I know for a fact is this: you want to take my weapons then you better have more fire power and better accuracy.

Whiile I wouldn't want to force my ideas on anybody I personally wouldn't have a problem with a national database containing ballistics for all firearms. If I don't commit a crime then it can only be used to clear me. If I do commit a crime it will be a spree and I won't make it out alive anyway.

Many believe PTSD to be a mental illness. Yet it isn't enough to take our weapons because incompetency can not be established which is required to prevent registering a firearm.

Learn from history. Alcohol was illegal yet it was still readily available. The only people gun control laws will protect are criminals as they won't have to worry as much about a well armed and ready advesary protecting their family and/or home. That's why gun free zones have been targeted so heavily the past ten years.

[fordman1]

Would you object to every gun being registered?
How about every gun having a ballistic test on file so the cops could know which gun killed someone?

[Timmyb]

Would you object to every gun being registered?
How about every gun having a ballistic test on file so the cops could know which gun killed someone?

When the government started NICS in 1993, it was supposed to be used only for background checks only, and then that record was supposed to be illiminated. Every gun bought was registered at that time. I don't believe for a minute that those records were actually gotten rid of. As far as registering guns bought before then, good luck. Are you saying that people who's parents gave them shotguns and rifles when they were children should go and register those guns? And then have them ballistics tested? Who pays for that? Surely you're not suggesting that I should have to pay for that, right?

[fordman1]

Of course not shot guns. Rifles and hand guns. Just bring them in record the ser. number and fire a couple of shots into a water tank and take your gun home.

[Timmyb]

Of course not shot guns. Rifles and hand guns. Just bring them in record the ser. number and fire a couple of shots into a water tank and take your gun home.

Naive at best. Orwellian at worst.

[Jessiewoodard57]

I hear all this discussion on registering every gun and it takes me to a scene in the (first) Red Dawn where the first thing the invader did was head straight for the gun ownership records. Fiction has a way of becoming fact. I wonder what will be next, knives, hammers and rocks. Our liberties have been slowing eroding away. Seems lately they have switched from undermining the constitution with spoons to steam shovels. Just my opinion.

[billf]

Would you object to every gun being registered?
How about every gun having a ballistic test on file so the cops could know which gun killed someone?

I don't plan on murdering anybody so I wouldn't have an issue with it. I also understand people's mistrust of the government and why they would be against it.

[fordman1]

This all started with the question in a survey that asked should mentally unstable people should be allowed to purchase fire arms. 21% thought it was OK. Justifying that % was all I was looking for. I am not comfortable with unstable people buying guns. Does the constitution say that?

[JasonNJ]

I hear all this discussion on registering every gun and it takes me to a scene in the (first) Red Dawn where the first thing the invader did was head straight for the gun ownership records. Fiction has a way of becoming fact. I wonder what will be next, knives, hammers and rocks. Our liberties have been slowing eroding away. Seems lately they have switched from undermining the constitution with spoons to steam shovels. Just my opinion.

Actually Red Dawn probably got it from Hitler. One of the first things he did was enact gun control, and do weapon's registration. He then removed all the weapon's from people who were not sympathetic to his cause.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...hen-p-halbrook