| Papa_Complex |
01-10-2011 08:13 PM |
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Originally Posted by goof2
(Post 441189)
That is the most effective, and really the only, tactic the anti-gun lobby has. They are dependent on emotional arguments swaying people. There are plenty of people who will support the anti-gun position, but when the argument is a logical one they can't get a majority. Hell, they are still trying to use the Virginia Tech massacre as a battering ram to close the so called "gun show loophole", even though that murdering bastard didn't buy any guns at a gun show.
Hopefully once cooler heads prevail people will realize that this murderer (and the VT murderer) are in the middle of two ideas that counter each other. Obviously guns shouldn't be sold to mentally unstable people, but medical privacy laws also mean that a legitimate gun retailer following all the rules isn't going to know about a diagnosis of mental instability even if such a diagnosis has been made.
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The former mayor of Toronto, who just recently retired, was trying to push through a city-wide ban on firearms because of "all the gun related deaths in the city." Of course this left out some very important issues:
- gun control is not within the city's purview; it's Federal
- the vast majority of gun crimes were perpetrated with illegal firearms
- the vast majority of gun crimes were perpetrated by street gang members
- the vast majority of gun crimes were perpetrated ON street gang members
- the 'huge number' of murders, in Toronto, is a mere fraction of what can be found in a comparable US city |
