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Maybe I should have been specific(again)  and named "handguns". you will allways have an odd ###### bent on suicide willing to use anything to kill including a hunting rifle like the Mayerthorpe case.
Once again, handguns should not be a right, they didn't even exist when the 2nd amendment was written (unless you call a f'n musket a handgun) All your hyperbole doesn't change the fact that the US of f'n A is out of control with gun crimes and now it's starting to bleed into our country with about 10,000 handguns being smuggled across our border each year. |
From Wikipedia page on the Mayterthorpe shooting...
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Also found were a .308 calibre Heckler & Koch 91 semi-automatic rifle(a Prohibited Firearm), and a .300 Magnum scoped rifle which had been reported missing by Shawn Hennessey's grandfather, and a 9 mm Beretta. The .308 and the 9 mm were not registered.
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Two prohibited firearms, including a 9mm handgun, both of which require a special license and background check to buy.
Perhaps we should spend another few billion on a better gun registry. That will SURELY stop incidents like the one in Mayerthorpe from happening.
Oh right, people like Roszko don't usually register their guns. So much for the couple billion we spent.
Yes, I am being overly sarcastic. But only because you seem to completely miss the point each and everytime we have this discussion.
The shooter in Arizona was obviously mentally disturbed. People like that shouldn't be allowed to buy guns. Which indicates a problem with background checks.
Enacting laws that deal with the mentally ill, or with those with criminal records, even if they don't show up on the background check.....and making sure they can't legally obtain firearms might be a much better idea than your stupid idea that banning guns will somehow solve the problem of gun crime.