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maxsolomon

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39. Theoretically, sure.

Mon Dec 30, 2019, 02:27 PM

Dec 2019

That's not where we are today.

A future possibility is not a reason to give up on closing the Gun Show purchasing loophole, or extending waiting times to the point where they make an impact, say to 6 months.

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Stabbings vs Shootings, Warning: about killing and death! [View all] Stuart G Dec 2019 OP

The bad guys will come to love the 3D printer. braddy Dec 2019 #1

Unfortunately this is true, the genie is out of the bottle in so many ways Amishman Dec 2019 #22

We need to find out what we have done wrong with people, when I was a kid we had knives in school, braddy Dec 2019 #23

Income inequality and an ever more stressful modern life Amishman Dec 2019 #24

That is just repeating the same old same old that created this in the first place, my very point. braddy Dec 2019 #27

Nah, Drahthaardogs Dec 2019 #38

Have you priced 3D printers? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #33

Like everything it will become cheap and common and gangs and criminals will make their own or buy braddy Dec 2019 #37

Theoretically, sure. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #39

3D printers are hardly fantasy while overthrowing the Constitution and removing 450 million current braddy Dec 2019 #40

What politician with power is proposing that fantasy as policy? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #44

Let's throw some good mental health practices into the mix too. A lot of people can be abqtommy Dec 2019 #2

I totally agree. Good mental health practices, as well as free availability to all everywhere, Stuart G Dec 2019 #3

Why not outlaw knives, too? aikoaiko Dec 2019 #4

The purpose of a knife is not to kill, the only purpose of a gun is "to kill." (that is why) Stuart G Dec 2019 #5

Guns are used for other purposes besides killing. aikoaiko Dec 2019 #7

My grandmother used her butcher knife to slice the throats of chickens Sonny Mirviss Dec 2019 #16

Countless knives and edged weapons are designed only to kill, while countless others are like guns braddy Dec 2019 #14

My Fairbairn-Sykes is the first I reach for when cutting veggies in the kitchen... Marengo Dec 2019 #19

Correct malaise Dec 2019 #21

And the other major difference: SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #6

I used to know a guy who was a good knife thrower. Archae Dec 2019 #9

I was thinking stabby stabby SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #17

Happens all the time in the movies and on the teevee, right? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #32

I wondered which gunner would carry the water against the OP's righteous point. Hoyt Dec 2019 #8

and good evening to you, too, Hoyt. aikoaiko Dec 2019 #12

So fun! maxsolomon Dec 2019 #35

Not at all. To quote you... aikoaiko Dec 2019 #41

I once fought off a guy with a knife and have a wicked scar on my arm from that. hunter Dec 2019 #28

Why not? hack89 Dec 2019 #10

If you were to ask me, I would use the model of licensing cars and driver's licenses. Midnight Writer Dec 2019 #11

Hard to conceal a car hack89 Dec 2019 #13

Millions of Americans drive drunk everyday. Should that not be regulated, folk will do it anyway? Midnight Writer Dec 2019 #15

People don't deliberately chose to break the law and drive drunk hack89 Dec 2019 #25

How does requiring a license hurt that problem? herding cats Dec 2019 #18

A license means nothing to a felon, mass shooter or someone that is suicidal hack89 Dec 2019 #26

Great! Let's make cars and guns equal. needledriver Jan 2020 #50

Guns are never going to be outlawed in this country, dware Dec 2019 #20

Slavery is never going to be outlawed in this country. hunter Dec 2019 #29

It's been 40 years since the "Cincinnati Revolution" maxsolomon Dec 2019 #31

The rejection of drunk driving was quicker than that, less than a decade. hunter Dec 2019 #43

Guns aren't Drunk Driving. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #45

As I've said, the second amendment is bullshit, just as constitutional slavery was bullshit. hunter Dec 2019 #46

You think it will happen quickly; I don't. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #47

Most U.S. Americans don't care enough about guns to bother owning one. hunter Dec 2019 #48

Ok, whatever, dware Dec 2019 #42

REGULATE firearms WELL. It's right there in the Amendment. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #30

A lot of Sheriffs n sellers keep refusing to enforce firearm regulations though dustyscamp Dec 2019 #34

Temporary problem. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #36

You are absolutely right. needledriver Jan 2020 #49