Just curious. When is the last time a gun was indicted and sent to prison

[shadowrider]

to pay for the crime of murder instead of the PERSON who PICKED UP the gun and used it?

In my experience, it's always the person that goes to prison, not the gun. Are there examples out there that contradict my observation?

[Skittles]

1. omg

[Clames]

2. I'm sure there have been many...

...unfortunate firearms that were stolen and subsequently destroyed after a criminal used them. That's about as close as it gets but I'm sure we have a few posters here who would file charges against Heckler & Koch USP .45 Variation 1 Standard, SN 123456789 for being scary looking, making loud noises, and polluting society with its existence...

[liberal N proud]

3. Maybe everyone should have a gun.

Then we would be safer.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

18. Maybe...

...everyone who isn't mentally or criminally adjudicated as defective in some way and is recognized as an adult should be free to make the choice for themselves. That is what liberty is all about, making one's own choices and accepting burden to act responsibly based on those choices or be sanctioned appropriately.

[SteveW]

21. Not sure about that, but we are already safer...

than 15-20 years ago, especially in terms of violent crime (see FBI uniform data).

And during this time the number of firearms in civilian hands has increased by over l00,000,000. This is not necessarily a causal relationship, but it does put paid to the bumper-strip: "More guns = More crime."

Gun ownership is not social policy. It is a means of self-defense, against criminals, gangs and tyranny (and there is no guarantee of success). And it is a right.

[PavePusher]

24. Maybe we shouldn't invent things no-one has proposed.

Then we wouldn't look silly, would we.....

[rl6214]

25. Only ones that ever make that statement are the anti-gun zealots.

[Hoyt]

4. I hope you have your guns locked away at home -- whatever you are on, could be dangerous.

Besides playing along with your post, I suspect the police confiscate the gun if found -- in essence imprisoning it.

Seriously, I have known people who have done stuff with a gun that they'd never do without it. Lots of so-called law abiding citizens carry guns for intimidation. Someone pisses them off over something relatively minor and they show their gun. It happened to me because of my Obama bumper sticker right before the election. I told the SOB to shoot me, as he slinked off toward his house.

[gejohnston]

5. are you for real or

are the people where you live really that fucked up? Good thing I only have driven through Georgia.

[Hoyt]

6. I've been telling you. And most of them love their guns.

I used to keep a ladder in my car to pull down posters with Confederate flags trying to get the southern swastika back on the state flag. And who can forget a gubnor who was elected because he chased minorities out of his restaurant, usually with a gun, but sometimes with an axe handle.

With a few exceptions, I have found guns and such hatred go together.

[sylvi]

8. Actually, Lester Maddox was selected, not popularly elected.

His Republican opponent won a plurality of the popular vote, no doubt due to the Democratic vote being split by another write-in candidate. But since Georgia required a majority (it was a three-way race) it fell to the Democrat-controlled state legislature to select a winner from the top two candidates. All of the General Assembly Democrats at the time had been forced to sign a loyalty oath to only select other Democrats in such a situation.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

[rl6214]

27. "I used to keep a ladder in my car to pull down posters with Confederate flags"

Sure you did

You kept the ladder but never actually did anything with it.

[shadowrider]

11. Sure, I believe that. Yup, uh-huh

Because all your other posts are so truthful.

[rl6214]

26. OMG, another story from you about how you confronted a gun owner...

[saras]

7. My guess would be medieval Europe. They convicted animals and inanimate objects regularly.

[Remmah2]

15. Lots of draconian gun laws on the books.

Still today.

[SteveW]

22. Boy, cats caught it during The Plague. Damned counter-productive, too. nt

[ileus]

9. guns corrupt the being....time to ban guns. No one can resist

going out and shooting someone if they own a gun.....


It's gotta be true I've read it on the innerwebs.

[shadowrider]

12. -- Snort --

I've heard you should believe everything you read on the innerwebs else it wouldn't be there.

[ileus]

10. My brother bought 271 guns off his county

guns they had seized over a 1 year period. County auctioned them off and he won the bid...

Sure they had been disabled but he sold off the parts and made a small mint. He was even able to order parts and repair a few to sell as complete firearms.

Every county in America has guns imprisoned because they've been victimized by their human owners.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

13. Every Day

If your question is are guns used in the commission of crimes ever detained, the answer is yes. They become property of the state.











.

[shadowrider]

14. Let me type slowly so you can understand

Bad guy has gun. Bad guy shoots and kills someone with said gun. Bad guy is caught. Bad guy is released, gun goes on trial.
Gun found guilty and spends time in prison (a supermax).

Confiscation is not the same as prison time.

It's always the PERSON found guilty.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

16. Guns used illegally.....

....are kept by the state.

Oh good grief.....I'll leave you to type slowly if it helps you (it doen't help me as you seem to 'think').........do tell what point you think you are making......

[shadowrider]

17. What point?

It's the PERSON, not the weapon.

[ileus]

19. not true....guns kill people.

everyone knows that...

[DWC]

28. So is any other inanimate object used in the commission of a felony

including cars, houses, misc. tools, etc.

"That house forced its occupants to run a meth lab in it." And that's the truth!

Semper Fi,

[fightthegoodfightnow]

30. Seriously

I know the difference between the function and purpose of a gun and a home. Do you



.

[Logical]

20. OK, sort of silly.

[montanto]

23. Most crime guns are jailed for a time, then put to death.

[Oneka]

29. Or

In many cases , sold to the general public at auction.

[Paladin]

31. You Gun Enthusiasts Are The Ones Spinning This Lame-Ass Notion.

Even the most vehement gun control advocates know that guns are inanimate objects, which are incapable of violent action without human direction. You're not fooling anybody but yourselves, as usual.....