Radio show on Easton and guns
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When did we start blaming in-animate objects for the horrors of man?

This pretty much sums up my thoughts on gun control:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKMgxuHBasI&t=24m40s

The whole episode is worth watching

Rich Cranium, great post!... I've never watched that video prior and DID enjoy the whole concept. It was worth the 28 minutes. Rich I also agree with you. Thank you both for your comments. The government officials have no real clue as to how to properly control gun issues. It's a shame that we have put ignorant people in charge of this issue.

Banning certain types of weapons will not stop bad guys from doing what they do best. It definitely will not keep rifles and/or handguns from out of their reach. All a ban will do is promote black market sales. Proposing a ban is a quick fix answer from legislators to silence the scream of the public instead of examining the real nature of the problem...the scum that do this dirt. In a CQC scenario, any gun can cause the same carnage that happen in CT. People need to educate themselves as opposed to just following the herd of followers. IMO

The closest parallel I can draw is my car and motorcycle. I need a license to operate both, they have to be registered, I have to prove I can operate them responsibly, I have to have them inspected each year so they pose no threat to other drivers. I'm not sure why reasonable, logical laws (like the assault weapons ban, the gun show loophole, failing to register being a felony not a misdemeanor as it is in Pa.) are opposed so vociferously. I don't think such laws are an impingement of a gun owners rights. Of course such a ban doesn't prevent further discussion on keeping them out of the hands of sick or violent predators; that can still be open to discussion.

As for blaming inanimate objects... we don't blame cars for DUI deaths but I can't imagine anyone thinking DUI laws are a bad idea. Such laws don't stop drunks from getting behind the wheel but they at least keep some from getting behind the wheel.

Just my 2 cents. I come from a family of deer hunters and would never advocate disarming the people; but certain things just make sense. The NRA blames societal breakdown and then argues that what makes sense is more guns that are easier to get. That position seems somewhat ludicrous to me.

Its not so much of what is proposed to be banned as it is being told what we as American citizens are not allowed to own. We are supposed to be the land of the free yet we have more rules and regulations than most of the rest of the world. Drugs are illegal yet how many children are killed in drug related incidents everyday. Its unfortunate that there are just bad people in this world, but what is good without bad. How would we know what good is if there wasnt bad. I am not insensitive to someone killing children, I have five of my own. If any of them were killed I would not be upset at the weapon used. Dead is dead weather assault rifle, knife, or BB gun. People are killed every day by automobiles, are they gona stop making larger vehicles because they could kill more people at a time than a small car? I have served in two branches of our military and have been to at least 15 other countries and one thing I learned early on is that the rest or the world thinks that all US citizens are heavily armed. This is why no other country will send a ground invasion to our land. We have a tough military but they fight because its their job. We all know what happens when one fights for thier family and land. Thats how we won our independance. Banning any type of weapon's will only keep them out of the hands of the law abiding citizens and posibly opening us up for war here where we live.

Drugs kill more people than guns and drugs ARE illegal.
While controlled as described by previous poster, cars are legal. Yet more traffic deaths happen than gun deaths. How many people drive without insurance, or licenses, or inspection? Does the laws the government makes stop vehicle deaths? The government can not control the laws it has without creating a police state in this country.
A gun ban would be like a new prohibition of our time. There is no way the government would be able to enforce it, it'd cost the American tax payer, and it'd lead to the overthrow our system. Law makers need to wake the Eff up.

Dogs kill people with their claws and teeth. We should defang and declaw all dogs because you just can't be too safe.

When a dog bites its owner or another person, we put it down. Maybe we should start doing that with people who use weapons in criminal activity.

The assault weapons ban has nothing to do with the Connecticut shooting. This ban would not have stopped it from happening and will only make matters worse in this country. Criminals do not care about the law. Bad people exist. You can't pass a law that will fix that and knee-jerk fear mongering to get a bad bill passed is certainly not the answer. Also, people keep calling .223 a high power round, when it's not. It's almost the smallest rifle round you can buy. It's fast, accurate, and was designed to wound so that enemy armies would have to spend resources healing wounded soldiers. This whole thing is based on what guns look "Scary". People need to wake up and read some statistics.

So, MD, the .223 is a round designed for war and not hunting, sport or personal protection?

Then why the hell is it being sold to the public?

So the criminals can busy themselves with tending to their wounded? You conservatives crack me up! You are so afraid, that you don't even hear your own BS as it spews forth from your lips.

can civilians own atom bombs yet? a sane civilian can own one and not use it to harm anyone unless need be.

Actually a 223 is a varmint hunting round. A 5.56x45 is a military round.

I think its a huge mistake to allow the government to tell you what you can and can't own.

Should we ban forks and spoons because people are obese? Far more people die of obesity than gun violence.

Hammers are designed to hit nails, so when they are used for lethal things it must make them completely useless to the "civilian" non-contractor population. Get a grip you whacko libtards! Blame the user, not the tool!
Also, an AR is not the same thing as a military weapon for you who don't even know the facts. The idea that people would be against the patriot act because its unconstitutional, but would support gun control as "the only logical step" is BEYOND ludicrous! Keep giving your rights away LIB-O's! And don't wonder why you have no protection from the monster government you people are creating! Nazi Germany 2.0. You've been warned.

Oh, and next we should ban cars that go faster than 55 because they are more likely to cause tickets and fatalities...by your LIBgic.

I watch the youtube video above and agree completely, its worth the 28 minutes to watch the whole video. The bill, if passed would ban the future manufacture of assault weapons and any magazine that holds more than 10 rounds. It would ban weapons that are currently in production that have the potential of holding more than 10 rounds. That means that your home defense semiautomatic firearm, Glock, Sig Sauer, S&W M&P, XDM, etc all have the potential to hold more than 10 rounds, they would all be subject to the ban. The other stipulation in the bill would be to register every weapon that has been banned from manufacture, so the federal government would know who has what. Future legislation could be passed to completely ban these weapons ans since you are registered, you would have to give them up, thus significantly disarming the population and preventing the overthrow of a tyranic government, which the second amendment was written to prevent, it was written as the second amendment, because it was so important. Another aspect of the bill would be to prevent transfer of these weapons to anyone, including your spouse, children, etc. So upon your death, they would have to be forfitted to the government. So if an all out ban never came into existance, in about 50-70 years, all of these weapons would be in the hands of the government anyway, thus preventing the people from overthrowing a tyrannical government.

"The art of diplomacy is saying, nice doggy, until you find a bigger rock". Should we the American people allow this ban to happen? My resounding answer is NO. If we do, we are allowing for a precedent to be made. From that day forward, that action will be referred to as, past practice. Please: A mentally ill man obtained an unsecured firearm and committed a series of acts that were horrific. Had he not been able to procure that unsecured firearm, he may then, in his deranged state, chosen a pointed or edged weapon. If none of those objects were available, his sick and demented mind would have gone to basic insinct: a rock. Irregardless of the type of object used to do harm, a person who means to do harm, will. This country will not benefit by banning guns of any kind.

the government will always have more power. there's biological weapons, which public does not have and weapons of mass destruction. no number of guns would even be able to ever compete against those.

Tony...You and your liberal crowd need to be banned, Any idiot who wants to tear down our constitution needs to be banned..Your analogies are idiotic,Please go away.

When was the last time a gun show, gun store, shooting range was the scene of a mass shooting or even a robbery? you would have to be crazy, why? there is a deterrent, all these shooting have taken place "where guns are not allowed" where's the deterrent? that is why crazies take advantage of this. I enjoy shooting my rifles, i have no intentions of going on a shooting spree, but you want to take away my hobby because of some nutcases? the only one you would hurt would be law abiding citizens like myself, the criminals don't care. those who have these rifle illegally are not going to sit in their home and say, i'd better take my low capacity magazines because my high caps are against the law to go kill people, no they will take them, they do not care about the law, but i am being punished because of it. remember our country was not ours until George Washington fought for it, do you think he had tea with the British to solve it? No, he shot them. Everyone says that only police and military should have them, why? No cops or service men have mental problems? Someone breaks into my home at 3am, i call the cops, the average response time is 17+ minutes, shall I ask the would be burglar to wait? Shall I let them rape my wife? Cops only carry guns to protect themselves, not us. How are you going to protect your family? Are you just going to lie there and have some stranger decide whether you live or die. I want a say in that, even if you do not.

I believe in the Castle Doctrine. Threaten me in my home and I blow your head clean off with my semi automatic Glock. . Then call the police to drag your sorry dead ass to the morgue.
How do you liberals feel about the Castle Doctrine?

"Without saying categorically how they would vote on such a measure, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15, and Sen. Pat Toomey have steered clear of endorsing a ban."

Remember, these two would lose serious $$$'s @ election time, if they voted for the ban, and we sure don't want that, do we? Better to have children massacred!?!

"............ I blow your head clean off with my semi automatic Glock. . - 'Then' - call the police........"

Says a lot about you, Joe. Any schools nearby???

Carl W.
It must suck walking around in life, totally clueless about the issues at hand. Why would you want to disarm law abiding citizens? Do you think, under and law, the criminals are going to abide by it? You foolish, foolish man. A criminal breaks into your home, how will you defend yourself? Would you let them rape your daughter? Kill your wife? Take your life? At least with a weapon, i can at least try to defend myself, What can you do, sit there and watch and wait until the police show up, providing you were able to get to a phone in time. I care about my family to WANT to protect them, not sit idly by and let strangers make life decisions for me.

I think the analogy presented regarding cars that go over 65 mph, and anything with alcohol over a certain percentage point hits home. Take out the politics and media hype, and place some reality into the conversation. Use facts, rather than emotion. The extremely vast majority of gun owners DO NOT shoot anyone...never have and most likely never will. Those same people who want to ban assault rifles will buy their 16 year old a Mustang GT 500 for their birthday. Or legalize pot, or drink with their kids and their friends. Let's avoid the hypocrisy! A tragedy occurred in Connecticut, while on the same day tens of thousands of assault weapon owners injured nobody. Actually, the only people benefitting from this rhetoric are the gunshops and Cabellas. Prices and sales are going through the roof. This rhetoric will occur until yet another nut job shoots yet another "Tiller the baby killer", then we can shift the focus to yet another political rhetorical blah blah, and decrease the cost of my ammo!

http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=215658

Carl W.....What my comments say about me is that I would protect my family from an invading intruder. You go onto to say where are the schools. Your thoughts /words indicate your idiotic Liberalism.And before you make comments about the Castle Doctrine understand the law you ignoramus.
Toomey and Dent won't vote for the ban because they are sensible men who understand that there are better solutions than tearing down the 2nd amendment. Many of their consituents are law abiding gun toting citizens whom they know will be violated by changing the law if they listen to liberal freaks like you who won't vote for them anyway.

Five people shot at three different gun shows across the nation today on "National Gun Appreciation Day." ... wow. There are no words... http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/19/1473881/two-people-accidentally-shot-at-a-gun-show-safety-checkpoint-on-gun-appreciation-day/?mobile=wp

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I have been a hunter for over 40 years. I don't go hunting with or allow people on my property that I deem are a danger to themselves or others. There are some people that should not be able to own guns ( the crazies). We should have an assault weapons ban. The only reason the NRA exists is to protect the rights of crazy people that want to own guns. I have never been and will never be a member of the NRA- reasonable sportsmen don't need them. Should we allow blind people to drive a car or go hunting and if not don't they have the same rights as people that can see?

John Fox, Once again the educated school the ignorant. These gun control people have no clue what the facts are...it's all emotion and what they hear through a biased media. It's the feel good approach! No substance...all emotion! Example...their happy leader Joe Biden the idiot!

We should allow blind people and people with down's syndrome to hunt and drive.