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Tragedy in our church
loosenupspas:
brew...sorry about your friend...preach on.......Tom
East_TX_Spa:
--- Quote ---He tells us about people who come in to buy a gun/rifle but don't 'pass' the state/government ownership requirements. One person told him, ' I'll just have my brother/cousin, some relative, pick it up for me'.
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This is called a "straw man purchase" and is covered by a multitude of the 20,000 existing firearms laws. It is illegal. Adding more laws will not make it more illegal.
I wish we sold guns alongside hot tubs. I think we're going to start selling tanning beds. ::) Time to break out my ol' thong and get a tan.
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96SC:
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I think we're going to start selling tanning beds. ::) Time to break out my ol' thong and get a tan.
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Time to break out the ol' blindfold :-/ :'(
Mendocino101:
--- Quote ---No amount of laws will prevent criminals from getting the tools of their trade. Just like prohibition was a collosal failure, so has been the war on drugs, and gun control.
Demands are supplied when there is enough demand. It's not the gun, it's the person. And an assault rifle isn't any more deadly or menacing than any other firearm. But most people don't have a clue as to what an assault rifle really is, they just glom on to the media hysterics. Our local media couldn't describe an assault rifle in any meaningful way, but they sure love to toss the word around.
Maybe when people have had enough of being victimized by criminals and psychopaths, and start defending against them, the behavior will change.
As for this particular instance, in my earlier posts I didn't mean to imply that this one person was necessairly a victim of the public schools, etc.... I was trying to say that there seems to be a whole generation of people coming of age that can't tolerate being told no, or who can deal with their problems without having to commit murder.
I suppose we'll find out someone was picking on him.......
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Now what a minute the media and being responsible... wait where did I hear that...I think what you touch on about an up coming generation of people....can very much be related to video games and violence in entertainment...that they are totally desensitized to death and it finality. I not suggesting that these things be outlawed but I think it is naive to think they do not have an effect on people who spend countless hours...playing these games.....which the more you kill...you more you score...
Brewman:
I wouldn't argue with your there.
You gotta wonder, though, where the line between fantasy and reality is, and why it's so blurry for some.
I watched the three stooges when I was 6 years old, but even at that young age I knew that raking a saw across someones head, or hitting them with a hammer, or pinching their nose with a pliers (you get the picture), wasn't to be done- I knew it was faked for TV and just funny. Never did occurr to me to try it on someone. There was a definite line there, and I and everyone I was around knew it.
Plus there were definite consequences for any of us who got out of line. Even teachers back then were empowered to use discipline on unruly students.
Now they're too worried about being sued or political correctness to enforce discipline. Somewhere along the line the animals began running the zoo.
Don't get me started on the whole "gangsta" lifestyle, or the numerous wannabee's that mimic it.
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