VolinMichigan
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There is really no such thing gun control laws when anyone who wants one can get one.The firearm homicide rate hasn't changed much since 1961 it's had it's increases and decreases but has stayed pretty much within a couple percentage points even though we have enacted much more stringent gun control laws.
I get that and have no reason to dispute it. My point is we have to be careful of cherry picking statistics. For example, children are more likely to die in the neighbor's pool than by the neighbor's gun, but we're not running around screaming pools should all be filled in. As another author pointed out, there is something more visceral and emotional about a gunshot wound than lungs filled with water, but they're still just as dead.
By the way, if MoCo=Monroe County, granddaddy and several generations prior to him were from Tellico Plains. I lived there for a number of years and still have a place there.
It is a mess. Throw in overprescribed and miss-prescribed medications and the money that generates and it gets even messier.It’s a mess, and I don’t know what the answer is, but a lot of people out there need psychological help, and don’t receive it.. or they did receive it and know what to say to get released as outpatient
Individual no. It doesn't matter if you are at a gun show, pawn shop or in the store, if you purchase from a FFL dealer you have to fill out a 4473.
But you missed my point.
YesI think its time some of you thought about what it must have been like for law enforcement to go into that school and find the bodies of those dead kids. Or for their families to be told that their very reason for being is gone like, this, amidst the terror of gun shots.
And ask yourselves -- really ask yourselves -- is your slavish adherence to gun rights really worth it.
What is the question?There is a question on form 4473 that if answered truthfully would have prevented a sale to the shooter.
Have you ever sold a gun to someone you don't know?