Comments on: Reasonable or Sensible Firearms Policies? – Firearms Discussion (Part V)

By: Robert Myles

Robert Myles — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:38:54 +0000

The size of the magazine is an arbitrary number and truly meaningless. Blamiing the Gun or the Magazine size that it takes is like blaming a certain type color and number of cylinders i the engine of a specific car for more accident’s, for more drunk driving arrest’s or more kidnapping’s. The need here is in Education and mental health isues. Guns do not load aim and fire themselves, if they did then I would have been massacred year’s ago by mine. There is a major health risis in this country and it is in the feild of mental health. Way too many drugs are prescribed to people to make them feel ‘good’ or be ‘more happy’, more attentive in class, more behaved etc etc. If you were to go into a classroom today you would truly wonder what the heck the teacher’s are actually teaching. What was 4th grade level is now about 7th or 8th. Why? because the calibre of teacher’s is not what it used to be. the kids get fidgety with boring classes and many who teach just plain are not quilified for the job. Sure they have the paper on the wall that says “I R A Teacher” but that doesn’t mean they can teach. In the name of “no child left behind we have dumbed down eduction to the point that most who try to attend college find they are ill prepared for it. Our places of “higher learning are dominated with the liberal think leftist’s who admire Saul Alinsky,Karl Marx and other socialistic leaders. When we have people in the whitehouse that openly say they admire Mao then we do indeed have a problem. the Second Amendment was not to protect deer hunting it was and is to protect the people from a tyrannical government. Our Founder’s fought such to bring freedom and a new form of government into the world. A Constitutional Republic of,by and for the people. That ideal has been bastardized in washington and all our state capital’s. The people are supposed to be served by our legislator’s that is not the way it is today. We need to return our government to the people and make our public servants just that as intended in the Constitution.

By: SBeecher

SBeecher — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:11:59 +0000

The argument that sets up multiple predators attacking or multiple criminals seems like reaching for a sort of zombie attack scenario.
I wish those who want to argue against gun control would ever acknowledge that there is a need to do something. Loughner or Holmes or Lanza are more likely to be the sort of people who start shooting and they are not likely to be experts, but peoria who are suicidal or psychotic or both.
The problem is that practical solutions can never come from denial that there is a problem and negativity towards any ideas anyone might put forward. It is kind of like not voting. When your vote is missing from the count, it is really a vote for the other side.

By: DaveGinOly

DaveGinOly — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:30:08 +0000

As one online wag put it, “Do the first ten rounds not hurt?”

One of the shooters at Columbine carried a pistol-caliber “assault rifle,” less powerful than a typical AR, and was equipped with 10 round magazines, within the magazine limit recently proposed. However, the shooter carried 13 such magazines, demonstrating that both weapon type and magazine capacity are irrelevant; Columbine proves that a mass shooting can be conducted in the face of regulations such as those now under consideration.