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In reply to the discussion: Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals; 20-100k at least [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)128. Umm, the DU cite was from 2010, long before Nugent ever mentioned her
And arguably long before he'd ever even heard of her...
Nice try at the associational fallacy, but you're really going to have to step up
your game.
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Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals; 20-100k at least [View all]
The Straight Story
Feb 2014
OP
They didn't outlaw guns for now. That doesn't mean they will not in the future. (n/t)
spin
Feb 2014
#204
No - there is no political will or public sentiment in America to confiscate guns
hack89
Feb 2014
#52
I think the difference here is that they think the registration of a gun is to track the person
Packerowner740
Feb 2014
#58
How many people would have been killed by the AR-15 equipped mass murderers .............
rdharma
Feb 2014
#84
So explain how registration would have prevented those crimes. Come on, you can do it.
hack89
Feb 2014
#86
Knew you couldn't. Sandy Hook is particularly difficult to explain, isn't it? nt
hack89
Feb 2014
#99
Yes! Do you think the person who sold him this AR-15 would have done it........
rdharma
Feb 2014
#110
Put the sporting stock on it and it's not scary nor dangerous anymore. problem solved.
NM_Birder
Feb 2014
#87
"registration doesn't prevent criminal use of guns...make the guns used in crime easier to track"
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2014
#158
Tell me, how do they track the FFL records. Is there a central/easily retrievable repository?
rdharma
Feb 2014
#194
Obama will never confiscate firearms even though he has a pen and a telephone. ...
spin
Feb 2014
#206
Whatever it was...... it sure didn't save that "responsible" gun owner...........
rdharma
Feb 2014
#142
change the stock to a sporting model... POOF.. it's no longer an "assault" weapon
NM_Birder
Feb 2014
#85
Do you actually have a point you can articulate, or just silly innuendo?
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#81
Guns kill 30,000 people a year, and your mocking those who try to tackle that?
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#147
If an attempt to tackle gun crime is poorly thought out, it SHOULD be mocked
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#185
Yes, but it should be mocked for being inadequate, not excessive. N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#193
Fighting gun crime by making what was legal and harmed none a crime...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#196
You *are* aware that guns harm no one without human intervention, no?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#199
I said *rifles*, which are indeed rarely used in crime- so sayeth the Feds
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#215
You know what's really ridiculous - to the point of being beyond parody?
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#113
More incremental criminalization, 'tho they're reluctant to actually admit it...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#120
You're excused, then. I was referring more to our homegrown prohibitionists
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#150
And how does that compare to the US in the same period? Your attempt at a point fails.
stevenleser
Feb 2014
#211
From the OP, anywhere from 50, 000 to 350,000 weapons -- in this 1 state -- remain unregistered
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2014
#159
Of course! What Rosa Parks did is exactly like some RW gun-hugger breaking the law!
rdharma
Feb 2014
#67
Just another gun fancier feeling "discriminated" against, and willing to use real civil rights
Hoyt
Feb 2014
#73
Huh??? The only bigots are the gun-owners themselves. They were and still are
madinmaryland
Feb 2014
#104
-1 for trying to rewrite history. Rosa Parks owned guns and made no bones about it:
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#121
No. The fact she had guns doesn't mean comparing Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement
kcr
Feb 2014
#123
Ms. Parks fought for the Fourteenth Amendment rights of all, and sometimes exercised...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#124
Just because you claim something infringing on a constitutional right doesn't make it so.
kcr
Feb 2014
#127
Umm, the DU cite was from 2010, long before Nugent ever mentioned her
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#128
You say "No associational fallacy about it." and continue talking about Nugent...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#138
No, I pretty much said to feel free to believe the crappy right wing nutty talking point
kcr
Feb 2014
#139
Nugent is an ignoramous who didn't know Parks was pretty hard Left...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#152
What's MY excuse? I think you're confused. I'm not the one who buys the idiot talking point.
kcr
Feb 2014
#162
Sorry, but that's how gun control works. And don't most of us want gun control?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2014
#42
Ha. So gun owners aren't as "law-abiding" as they try to tell us. Are you really surprised?
Hoyt
Feb 2014
#53
Women don't use the "I'm law-abiding" ruse. But nice try. Fact is, gun fanciers are
Hoyt
Feb 2014
#56
I did not deflect. His question had nothing to do with issue. Abortions and gunz are hardly similar
Hoyt
Feb 2014
#69
I'm not sure any of those incidents required a gun, but gun fanciers do think it's the only way to
Hoyt
Feb 2014
#169
"...gun fanciers do think it's the only way...". More telepsychology, Hoyt?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#197
That would have been a snappy reply if that was what he had actually said
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#125
Gun ownership should not be a right, any more than driving a car is.
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#155
Hardly hyperbole- there's quite a few that would like to go all Harry J. Anslinger on guns
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#130
Nail bombs are 'destructive devices', even the NRA supports regulation of those
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#184
They are the same- an attempt to criminalize what was previously legal...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#195
Many would like that, but most are too mealymouthed to admit it...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#132
Every single gun used in a crime began as a legal gun; every criminal's gun was once owned
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2014
#140
Um no... the people who didn't register are creating the "newly minted criminals"
cui bono
Feb 2014
#151
Or busting people for cannabis possession in states where it's still illegal?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2014
#190
I don't like laws that criminalize people with a stroke of a pen. Think of where it could lead.
Populist_Prole
Feb 2014
#210
"Yeah, I'm a pro-gun progressive." - That's all you needed to say, honestly.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#212