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Sep 13, 2019 18:12:31   #
woodguru
 
Lt. Rob Polans ret. wrote:
I don't know which side I'd fall on definitely not the left, but the right? I feel no allegiance there. Anyway, you're looking for the solution to mass shootings? Here are what I've seen and heard. In my Nam group after the Parkland shootings (I was soon to learn it was all staged by Soros) "We don't need gun control, kid control" was what one said. What did all of the mass shooters have in common? No support from family. Psychotropic drugs. Video games. Loners. You get the idea. Profiles would be helpful here. A 'see something say something' campaign might also be helpful. The Vegas shootings-staged. I'll bet you didn't expect this. I do have a serious side.
I don't know which side I'd fall on definitely not... (show quote)


The see something say something is huge, but it depends on the police being able to respond in a heretofore unconstitutional manner, but red f**g laws are making that acceptable.

Police have actually intervened in a number of situations where family, friends, and social media has outed guys who were threatening to k**l people, their guns are confiscated and they are placed under observation or arrest. It's a new order of things that is necessary to save lives.

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Sep 13, 2019 18:17:17   #
woodguru
 
Lt. Rob Polans ret. wrote:
I don't know which side I'd fall on definitely not the left, but the right? I feel no allegiance there. Anyway, you're looking for the solution to mass shootings? Here are what I've seen and heard. In my Nam group after the Parkland shootings (I was soon to learn it was all staged by Soros) "We don't need gun control, kid control" was what one said. What did all of the mass shooters have in common? No support from family. Psychotropic drugs. Video games. Loners. You get the idea. Profiles would be helpful here. A 'see something say something' campaign might also be helpful. The Vegas shootings-staged. I'll bet you didn't expect this. I do have a serious side.
I don't know which side I'd fall on definitely not... (show quote)


Actually what I was trying to draw out is a serious side, and perhaps to show that there is a side of me that has a level of supporting sensible gun laws but that rejects anything to the extreme. It is a dialog that those who support second amendment rights need to have. It's like I say, reject the dialog at the risk that you will not have any input into solutions, reasonable or otherwise.

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Sep 13, 2019 18:26:02   #
Gatsby
 
woodguru wrote:
The problem is that they are becoming more and more frequent, as are h**e crimes. Getting harsh about taking guns from people with anger management issues and keeping them from buying new ones happens to make it difficult for unhinged people who are the ones who are committing violent acts.

People who don't have a solid mental stability have no rights to have guns. Unless I missed a part of the constitution that would protect the rights of mentally unstable people with anger management issues to own guns and k**l people, they have no gun rights if we say they don't.
The problem is that they are becoming more and mor... (show quote)


Now you're heading up the right path:

Please explain to the nation, how do we identify all of the people with "anger management" problems?

Then: Please provide a legal definitions for "anger management" and "problem".

Next: Please define just who should have the authority to make such "legal determination"?

The problem seems to me to be that as a society, we have failed to teach "anger management"

to our children during their "formative years".

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Sep 13, 2019 18:31:00   #
JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida
 
woodguru wrote:
Actually what I was trying to draw out is a serious side, and perhaps to show that there is a side of me that has a level of supporting sensible gun laws but that rejects anything to the extreme. It is a dialog that those who support second amendment rights need to have. It's like I say, reject the dialog at the risk that you will not have any input into solutions, reasonable or otherwise.


If I can find the Professors name I will post it. Anyway, he drew a remarkable conclusion after twenty years of studying people behind mass k*****gs. Included in that study were terrorists and many ISIS fighters along with the k**lers we know about such as the Parkland k**ler, Columbine, and others. Over 90% of the k**lers had one thing one thing in common. They didn’t grow up with a father figure.

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Sep 13, 2019 18:51:51   #
Mikeyavelli
 
Abel wrote:
We don't need any more laws. We have far too many now. More unenforced laws will not begin to relieve our problems.

Mass shootings are products of demented people, not any particular tool. Any tool, gun, hammer, ball bat, tire iron, knife or wh**ever can be used to assault someone, thus an AR rifle is not the only assault weapon, and it may be used for war, hunting, or target practice.

Children are being programmed to believe fantasy is real by the games they play and progressive Deep State agitprop taught in our public schools. Clean up the public education and get back to the basics, and get rid of extreme violence in movies and games. People are obsessed with games, entertainment, and food, and apparently have way too much free time on their hands to think up all these vicious activities. Idle minds are very dangerous.

Quit attacking the "tools" and begin helping the people who are mentally deficient. Proper education begins in the home, but unfortunately, too many parents have already been "progressively" programmed to the point that they believe socialism is the way to go; that erroneous mindset has to be addressed before they begin any home training of their children, else the children will be a copies of the demented parents rather than normal children. In spite of what the progs want us to believe, family, consisting of a male/female relationship (mother and father) raising children and paying attention to what is being taught to their children in public schools is very important. It will be several generations before the horrible damage that has been inflicted upon the USA by the Deep State Progs can be eradicated, but the sooner we start the sooner we can be free of their misguided i***tology. It's time to wake up and get started.
We don't need any more laws. We have far too many ... (show quote)


Yep, guns are tools, protected by the Second Amendment. And if a more efficient weapon were to replace guns, those tools of defense would be protected also by the Second Amendment.

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Sep 13, 2019 19:13:58   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
JFlorio wrote:
Just make any crime committed with a gun an automatic prison sentence and fine. Both go up the more serious the crime. Serve the entire hitch. No early parole. We have enough laws. Do you really thing criminals or whack jobs wanting to murder a bunch of people won’t find a way?


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1927-bombing-remains-americas-deadliest-school-massacre-180963355/





quote=woodguru]The fight by the hard right, and I say hard right, is that anything is a slippery slope. They object to anything and everything...that is going down like a porn star fluffer. Moderate republicans, and there are a lot of them agree with the middle of the road, background checks that include police reports, mental health, histories of violence and anger issues.

So the dialog is about what is reasonable, if you are part of the pure opposition that fights against everything you will not have a voice, this will be done without you.

The ground that needs to be discussed are the things that can make differences, it isn't about anything being able to completely eliminate mass murders, it's about the things that can make a difference.

Background checks along with a wait period sufficient to check databases, that's the common sense ground that is being reported as having support out at as high as 90%. Ground for debate exists with what does background checks include... Those databases should include...
...police reporting of domestic violence reports, restraining orders, and general red f**g behavior
...felonies

Red f**g laws, which allow the police and FBI to intervene when unhinged behavior and threats are reported or detected on social media.

Magazine size limits, they actually are effective in that they make it harder to carry larger numbers of mags that have only ten shots in them. Their effectiveness is curtailed whe they are limited in some states but not others. Everyone I know that wants 20/30/and even 40 round mags has them because it's easy enough to get them in Nevada.

I am a gun owner, I recently bought an AR in a tiny caliber (.204 Ruger) for coyote and target shooting. I am against people being forced to give up an array of assault oriented rifles, I favor the approach California took when they banned assault rifles It banned new ones. It was later relaxed to a standard of safety features and magazine size limits, also better than a forced taking of all of them, that is a line too far. I oppose total bans and prefer allowing the modified ARs that are available in california, although total bans are what they are as long as they don't come with being forced to turn in existing ones, mine is a custom super accurate one that cost $2500. California did not try to take people's AR's when they banned them, they grandfathered in the ones people already owned.

The right rants on about the government wanting to take our guns, it's not all of them so that is a fear mongering rhetoric. The country has a long history of having bans on different military grade weapons, also things such as fully automatic and suppressors, which are prohibited in many states.

Rather than talking about the negative and what you are afraid is a slippery slope, talk about what is reasonable and acceptable to you. I'm curious how many people on the right will say what's acceptable, although I know that to say so is to be labeled by the hard right as a t*****r.
Just make any crime committed with a gun an automa... (show quote)
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We already have background checks, to the number of more than 100,000 stops on purchases from FFL dealers last year. About 4600 were referred for prosecution and less than 100 were prosecuted, resulting in around 30 convictions. What sort of background check did you have in mind? Why don't we start with checking the backgrounds of the Federal Law Enforcement people who are shirking their jobs?

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Sep 13, 2019 19:15:57   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
woodguru wrote:
The see something say something is huge, but it depends on the police being able to respond in a heretofore unconstitutional manner, but red f**g laws are making that acceptable.

Police have actually intervened in a number of situations where family, friends, and social media has outed guys who were threatening to k**l people, their guns are confiscated and they are placed under observation or arrest. It's a new order of things that is necessary to save lives.


Wh**ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Right to face your accuser? Unreasonable search and seizure? Screw it, let's just scrap the whole Bill of Rights and trust the asswipes in Washington to do the honest and ethical thing.

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Sep 13, 2019 19:46:01   #
JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida
 
You know I’m not for anymore background checks. We have enough.
Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
We already have background checks, to the number of more than 100,000 stops on purchases from FFL dealers last year. About 4600 were referred for prosecution and less than 100 were prosecuted, resulting in around 30 convictions. What sort of background check did you have in mind? Why don't we start with checking the backgrounds of the Federal Law Enforcement people who are shirking their jobs?

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Sep 13, 2019 19:56:34   #
whitnebrat Loc: In the wilds of Oregon
 
Mikeyavelli wrote:
Yep, guns are tools, protected by the Second Amendment. And if a more efficient weapon were to replace guns, those tools of defense would be protected also by the Second Amendment.

One of the few times I agree with Mikey...
What I would like to see is:
1) Cities and towns have the right to enforce gun laws within their jurisdictions (city/town limits - urban growth boundary).
2) Citizens within those borders may be restricted in the carrying of firearms such as:
Any firearms outside the home and in t***sit to a dealer or shooting range must be carried in
a locked case, with ammunition stored separately, both being inaccessible to any people inside
the vehicle.
3) Open carry may be prohibited within their borders, and concealed carry only with registration, background check and training.
4) Violation should be a mandatory 1 year sentence for first offenders, 5 years for a second offense. No parole or time off for good behavior.
5) Outside the boundaries, no restrictions. Out here in the boonies, guns are tools for not only self-protection, but for dealing with predators, and vermin. If we get restricted in these tools, we open ourselves to being prey for criminal trespass and home invasion due to the isolation of homesteads, but we also open ourselves to livestock losses, and an increase in crop losses due to various critters.

In populated areas, firearms outside the home are not good, because of the density of homes and houses. Out here in the countryside, they are a necessity.

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Sep 13, 2019 20:27:01   #
vernon
 
woodguru wrote:
The fight by the hard right, and I say hard right, is that anything is a slippery slope. They object to anything and everything...that is going down like a porn star fluffer. Moderate republicans, and there are a lot of them agree with the middle of the road, background checks that include police reports, mental health, histories of violence and anger issues.

So the dialog is about what is reasonable, if you are part of the pure opposition that fights against everything you will not have a voice, this will be done without you.

The ground that needs to be discussed are the things that can make differences, it isn't about anything being able to completely eliminate mass murders, it's about the things that can make a difference.

Background checks along with a wait period sufficient to check databases, that's the common sense ground that is being reported as having support out at as high as 90%. Ground for debate exists with what does background checks include... Those databases should include...
...police reporting of domestic violence reports, restraining orders, and general red f**g behavior
...felonies

Red f**g laws, which allow the police and FBI to intervene when unhinged behavior and threats are reported or detected on social media.

Magazine size limits, they actually are effective in that they make it harder to carry larger numbers of mags that have only ten shots in them. Their effectiveness is curtailed whe they are limited in some states but not others. Everyone I know that wants 20/30/and even 40 round mags has them because it's easy enough to get them in Nevada.

I am a gun owner, I recently bought an AR in a tiny caliber (.204 Ruger) for coyote and target shooting. I am against people being forced to give up an array of assault oriented rifles, I favor the approach California took when they banned assault rifles It banned new ones. It was later relaxed to a standard of safety features and magazine size limits, also better than a forced taking of all of them, that is a line too far. I oppose total bans and prefer allowing the modified ARs that are available in california, although total bans are what they are as long as they don't come with being forced to turn in existing ones, mine is a custom super accurate one that cost $2500. California did not try to take people's AR's when they banned them, they grandfathered in the ones people already owned.

The right rants on about the government wanting to take our guns, it's not all of them so that is a fear mongering rhetoric. The country has a long history of having bans on different military grade weapons, also things such as fully automatic and suppressors, which are prohibited in many states.

Rather than talking about the negative and what you are afraid is a slippery slope, talk about what is reasonable and acceptable to you. I'm curious how many people on the right will say what's acceptable, although I know that to say so is to be labeled by the hard right as a t*****r.
The fight by the hard right, and I say hard right,... (show quote)


My thoughts about this is we need to go back punishment. The use of a weapon in a unlawful act
should get a person a minimum of 20 years. To use a firearm and k**l or wound some body they should get death and within days not years.
Are you going to have this post erased like the one the other day.

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Sep 13, 2019 20:31:56   #
vernon
 
Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
Wh**ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Right to face your accuser? Unreasonable search and seizure? Screw it, let's just scrap the whole Bill of Rights and trust the asswipes in Washington to do the honest and ethical thing.



spoken like a true demoRAT.

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Sep 13, 2019 21:51:21   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
National Council for Behavioral Health: Mass Violence in America, Causes, Impacts, and Solutions

Despite the fear and public scrutiny they evoke, mass shootings are statistically rare events. Mass
shootings accounted for less than two-tenths of 1 percent of homicides in the United States between
2000 and 2016. Even school shootings, the most tragic of such events, are infrequent. People are more
likely to intentionally k**l themselves with a gun than to be k**led by a gun in a mass shooting or other
type of homicide.
url=https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content... (show quote)


By that logic lets say mass shootings are acceptable and just what goes along with the territory.

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Sep 13, 2019 21:55:16   #
Fodaoson Loc: South Texas
 
The second amendment works.

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Sep 13, 2019 21:57:52   #
JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida
 
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
By that logic lets say mass shootings are acceptable and just what goes along with the territory.


Of course they’re not acceptable Tom. There isn’t a gun law that’s gonna stop mass murder. Period.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1927-bombing-remains-americas-deadliest-school-massacre-180963355/

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Sep 13, 2019 22:07:56   #
cbpat1
 
woodguru wrote:
The fight by the hard right, and I say hard right, is that anything is a slippery slope. They object to anything and everything...that is going down like a porn star fluffer. Moderate republicans, and there are a lot of them agree with the middle of the road, background checks that include police reports, mental health, histories of violence and anger issues.

So the dialog is about what is reasonable, if you are part of the pure opposition that fights against everything you will not have a voice, this will be done without you.

The ground that needs to be discussed are the things that can make differences, it isn't about anything being able to completely eliminate mass murders, it's about the things that can make a difference.

Background checks along with a wait period sufficient to check databases, that's the common sense ground that is being reported as having support out at as high as 90%. Ground for debate exists with what does background checks include... Those databases should include...
...police reporting of domestic violence reports, restraining orders, and general red f**g behavior
...felonies

Red f**g laws, which allow the police and FBI to intervene when unhinged behavior and threats are reported or detected on social media.

Magazine size limits, they actually are effective in that they make it harder to carry larger numbers of mags that have only ten shots in them. Their effectiveness is curtailed whe they are limited in some states but not others. Everyone I know that wants 20/30/and even 40 round mags has them because it's easy enough to get them in Nevada.

I am a gun owner, I recently bought an AR in a tiny caliber (.204 Ruger) for coyote and target shooting. I am against people being forced to give up an array of assault oriented rifles, I favor the approach California took when they banned assault rifles It banned new ones. It was later relaxed to a standard of safety features and magazine size limits, also better than a forced taking of all of them, that is a line too far. I oppose total bans and prefer allowing the modified ARs that are available in california, although total bans are what they are as long as they don't come with being forced to turn in existing ones, mine is a custom super accurate one that cost $2500. California did not try to take people's AR's when they banned them, they grandfathered in the ones people already owned.

The right rants on about the government wanting to take our guns, it's not all of them so that is a fear mongering rhetoric. The country has a long history of having bans on different military grade weapons, also things such as fully automatic and suppressors, which are prohibited in many states.

Rather than talking about the negative and what you are afraid is a slippery slope, talk about what is reasonable and acceptable to you. I'm curious how many people on the right will say what's acceptable, although I know that to say so is to be labeled by the hard right as a t*****r.
The fight by the hard right, and I say hard right,... (show quote)




I have purchased a half dozen handguns and have had to go through a background check every single time. I have my carry permit which allows me to take the weapon home with me the same day if I pass my background check, otherwise, I would have to wait three days before I would be allowed to take the weapon home.

I think the background check is enough right now, anymore would be getting pretty intrusive. I think they need to close the loopholes so everyone that purchases a weapon needs to go through a background check. Even with private sales, although I don't know how that would be possible to enforce.

One thing I do know is that taking everyone's weapons away would only insure that the bad guys are the only ones that have weapons. There will always be weapons on the black market. I have been asked twice in the last ten or so years by a couple people that I know were bad dudes if I wanted to buy a handgun, I declined, because of the type of people that asked me and knew the guns were more than likely stolen. There is no way to control background checks in those type situations, further adding proof to the adage that only bad people are going to have guns if the government does a mayor buyback.

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