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In reply to the discussion: Sausage making: what are you willing to concede in return for background checks? [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)61. You can tell those who promote more guns in more places, by what they are willing concede.
Last edited Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:45 PM - Edit history (1)
We already conceded inherited weapons, transfers between "friends," and other NRA BS. I think that is too much.
A strong message needs to be sent to the gun community, that the majority of Americans expect them to actually act "responsible" with their lethal weapons.
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Sausage making: what are you willing to concede in return for background checks? [View all]
Recursion
Apr 2013
OP
What do you want to concede? Everything, so that the legislation makes Wayne LaPierre giddy.
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#57
You can tell those who promote more guns in more places, by what they are willing concede.
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#61
Yes, true, and handguns are also more tightly controlled in the US than long guns
Recursion
Apr 2013
#31
We don't really know because we don't know how bad compliance with the late registry was
Recursion
Apr 2013
#66
I am willing to give up the entire current Congress, replace them all, if that's what it takes. nt
bemildred
Apr 2013
#4
I don't believe there's anything that can be put in that would pacify the NRA or the
el_bryanto
Apr 2013
#5
If the 10% are legislatively powerful and the 90% want legislation to pass, yes.
Recursion
Apr 2013
#11
So I fear this is the left's version of the right's decades-long crusade to overturn Roe v. Wade
Recursion
Apr 2013
#23
Well, they took a lot of money and time from us in exchange for doing nothing
Recursion
Apr 2013
#16
I love the Federal Firearm Operators License (or whatever we should call it) idea
Recursion
Apr 2013
#25
On background checks? Nothing. I would rather fight that out in the public sphere
Tom Rinaldo
Apr 2013
#34
I think limiting magazine size is a much better idea than regulating grip shape
Recursion
Apr 2013
#38