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I'm off to enjoy the LOL Cat universe, where things make sense. 
But most in the Gungeon see nothing wrong with our current federal regulations and if they could would tear down regulations in state's with stricter laws. They oppose bans on the over-the-counter sale of high-capacity magazines such as the drum used in Colorado and the 33-round clips used by Jared Lee Loughner. They oppose the assault weapon ban that has been a centerpiece of Democratic gun control policy for two-decades. They oppose requiring stringent regulations for concealed permits. In short, they oppose policies that overseas still allow responsible gun ownership while dramatically reducing the number of homicides. If you take the next ten comparable nations and total their annual homicides they still do not surpass our 10,000 dead figure that has held steady for over a decade.
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Tough shit - this is a privately operated website with it's own set of rules. This isn't 4chan, this isn't Free Republic. Extreme libertarians and Republicans should go elsewhere.
1. Still beating that we can't define an "assault weapon" horse. I kind of like the Canadian system in this regard, stop playing your game and just ban specific guns.
2. Your argument about magazines is wandering and illogical. What's so hard about agreeing that no one needs 30 rounds to defend themselves, hunt or sport shoot?
3. You're way to obsessed with the gun culture to even understand something as simple as: COMPARABLE COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE 10,000 DEAD EVERY YEAR AND ANNUAL MASS SHOOTINGS!!!
Why?
Because they have sensible, effective gun control to varying degrees depending on what they think is logical. Why are we incapable of making that leap forward? I don't know for sure, but I'd bank it has a lot to do with the NRA/Republican/fascist jackasses who rob us blind and make us suffer.
- for your failed rant. Also, the most sensible regulation we don't have that we should have is mandatory psychological review for ownership. Shoot me. 
I thought they were unreliable and prone to jamming? Can't have it both ways now!
The rest of your post is just wandering rants and I have better things to do.
Christians being a proper name is always capitalized, like "D" in Democrats. 
...and I personally don't really give a crap about the wailing of NRA wing-nuts.
Yes, to an extent. Consider as an example: the proliferation of "Democrat Party."
Also, consider a trip over to Free Republic and witness the decline.
...you've given me no reason to claim such a thing. Do you support the over-the-counter sale of high-capacity magazines?
those of us who quietly own guns, are non-violent, sane, and think we should have good gun control policies feel like we're being attacked...which we are on numerous threads, just for owning a gun.
Yes, I have two guns...technically, they're my husbands. We don't use them, but we have them, and he did teach me how to safely handle them and shoot them. (a long time ago) One of them he's had since he was a kid. Quite common up here in Maine.
I'd like to see some real non attacking discussion here on DU about what we can do to make gun ownership safer, and kept out of hands that they shouldn't be in. But, until some of this calms down, I don't see it happening.
My first post on the whole topic...I've pretty much stayed out of it. Hopefully, sometime we can all have this discussion calmly.
What happened over the weekend was horrible, unbelievably sad, and the young man involved probably would have managed to get his weapons somewhere, legal or not. This is another thing that has to be worked on. Illegal guns, ammunition etc...has got to come off the streets. Mental health screenings for legal gun purchases, extensive back ground checks...there has to be true conversation on the topic, none of which I've seen here lately. Rather sad....and both sides are guilty of the mud slinging.
I'll wait it out. In the mean time, my thoughts will be with the victims and their families, and hope that Lady Justice prevails.
Suggest mental health screenings for over-the-counter purchase in the Gungeon and see what response you get.
Your opinion don't matter. 
Just kidding.
...although there may have been a post or two. I haven't made any either. Look, I'm fine if you want to hunt, target shoot, even CCW or open carry so long as you're subject to strict regulation. I'm not fine with those who oppose almost all regulation and toe the NRA line. I support liberals who own guns, but I'm against the right-wing position.
...I really don't feel sorry - I feel sorry for the victims in Colorado. But still, I think it's wrong the "gun nuts" can't just let us express our frustration with the NRA/Republican Party and the results of its dangerous policies.
from one or two posts. Very nice. You seem to be upset, here, have a cookie
= NRA construct.
Opposing the ability of a nutcase to buy an AR-15 and 100 round drum without so much as a question of his intent is not opposing "RKBA."
Despite all your pontificating about yourself, it doesn't change the fact that a nutcase was able to buy 4 guns including an assault rifle and a 100 round drum and shoot up a movie theater. If you can't give a damn about what that means to most of the posters here I'm really not sure why you're continuing to distract from the point of contention. Nice attempt at a straw-man though seriously, stop pretending the NRA crowd isn't out of it's damn mind and undermining public safety.
Goodbye.
Read the DU TOS
I just thought you had left. I've been spending less time on here lately.
Then you're not paying attention. Every time something like this happens the "pro-gun" crowd has to invade GD and pee all over the carpet; it stinks.
Enjoy your stay.
As though our NRA bought and paid for Congressional "representation" would do anything significant about this?
I keep asking what crimes everyone is going to engage in in order to make gun confiscation legal and necessary and no one answers.
TIRED of it.
I'm outta here for a couple of days.
"hur hur, you own a gun so you support murder you have blood on your hands you tiny dicked gun fetish worshipper of death hur hur" type stuff.
i'm sure there might be some gungeon folks who are a little bit too into firearms for my taste but jesus christ no one here advocated gun massacres...
...they are effectively advocating gun massacres.
Jesus Christ.
...that would inhibit the ability of individuals like Jared Lee Loughner and James Holmes to acquire such weapons. They are enablers and have blood on their hands, how many times does this have to happen before we stop kow-towing the NRA assholes? If you can't see that, I'm beginning to wonder about your judgment. I don't think I'll take anything you have to say remotely seriously anymore. Goodbye, you're ignored. Plain fucking stupid would be continuing to engage in discussion with you!
In both cases they jammed up and probably saved lives so, why ban them?
Any serious gun owner wouldn't own them, but I still oppose a ban on high cap mags. for the simple fact that for people like you, it's never enough, next it'll be, nobody needs more than 10 round mags so we need to ban them, next, nobody needs 10 round mags so we need to ban them, next it'll be nobody needs a semi auto gun because only 6 rounds are allowed in a gun so revolvers are fine so we need to ban them.
I'm all for reasonable gun control laws, just not what you consider reasonable.
"More effective mental health screening and treatment will make a much bigger difference than banning high-capacity magazines."
Do you understand how many mentally ill people we have in this country? Do you understand how difficult it is to force a grown adult into treatment? Do you understand how cost prohibitive such a measure would be considering how broke we already are? The rest of your post is entirely hypothetical and I have no desire to engage in such presumptions.
quite some time.
[div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]It's a bloody institution, supported by Government and Industry, as American as Dick Cheney, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, the Third Way, the republican party, and mom's apple pie,
Ending gun violence begins with teaching our children.
Teaching our children the truth about gun violence begins in the home.
before taking refuge in the Lounge.
Uh, OK.
