jlf1961
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Uh, folks, a bit of useful information: Mass shooting deaths from January 2009 through December 2015 in the US: 396 Mass shooting deaths from January 2009 through December 2015 in France: 540 In France, to buy a firearm, a hunting licence or a shooting sport license is necessary. All semi-automatic rifles with a capacity greater than 3 rounds, all handguns and all rifles chambered in 'military' calibers, including bolt action, require permits. These are known as B1, B2 and B4 type permits. Firearms are divided into eight categories that determine the regulations that apply to their possession and use. France also sets limits on the number of cartridges that can be kept at home (1000 rounds per gun). And lets fact facts, France has some pretty restrictive gun laws, but those laws did not prevent those deaths in mass shootings, now did they? All the shootings in France involved military style assault rifles with high capacity magazines, and most likely all of those weapons came into the country from outside. So, logic thus implies that banning or placing even more strict guidelines on who can purchase and what they can purchase is not a perfect solution, nor does it eliminate gun crime. So the argument 'less guns equals less crime" is not necessarily true. So, then the argument is "there is more gun crimes in the US because anyone can go and buy a gun." Again, not true, accurate, or even remotely accurate. However, once more, lawmakers around the world have stated that the US has one of the most comprehensive set of firearms regulations in the industrialized world. The problem is not the lack of laws, but the enforcement of the laws we have. Back ground checks are great, except that the reporting of the very things that would prevent someone from buying a gun are not mandatory. It is strictly voluntary, and not even at the state level but at the local level as well. But what really gets me is the fact that the Americans who are screaming "ban guns" are the same shit brained idiots who scream "invasion of privacy" every time some congressman introduces a law to make it mandatory to report people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness that has a high incidence of violence associated with it. Yeah, President Obama signed an order that enabled doctors to report this information, meaning he signed an executive order that states that doctors cannot be sued because they reported the information. But it still did not make it mandatory. But it IS mandatory for a person who had his driver's license suspended for repeatedly being arrested for driving while intoxicated (even if that person had never been involved in an accident of any kind) to a national data base which insures that person will not be issued a license in any other state. The anti gun people agree with that since it is a matter of 'public safety.' It sure as hell invades the privacy of that individual. Hell if your license is suspended for an unpaid traffic ticket, you cant get a license in another state for as long as ten years. So, why is drunk driving conviction related license suspension a matter of public safety but the reporting of a person with a mental illness linked to violence not one?
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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