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nadinbrzezinski

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63. Actually if you want good policy you should care.

Sun Dec 30, 2012, 02:55 PM

Dec 2012

I told as much to congress critter. I give a rats ass how the gun looks. I care about the internals of the firing mechanism.

If it can spit out 4-6 rounds a second instead of one...that is a huge difference. If we can reduce the rate of fire of the bushmaster to one round a second, I am good with it...incidentally that is the rate of fire of a hunting rifle that uses a manually operated bolt.

How the weapon looks will lead to BAD policy which once again will be easy to defeat by the gun manufacturers. A cosmetic change here or there and we're legal...once again...whoohoo!

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OK, you ban Semi-Autos, they start making them at home [View all] shintao Dec 2012 OP

You cant be series. It's simple to pay out cash for a killing machine. Too much work rhett o rick Dec 2012 #1

That's why we have laws DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2012 #2

I would imagine you are right shintao Dec 2012 #4

yes, you're right. But he'll get 50 years with no parole just for possessing it DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2012 #8

If you ban child porn, they start making it at home. baldguy Dec 2012 #3

Not sure where you went with that??????????? shintao Dec 2012 #7

Thank you for proving my point. baldguy Dec 2012 #19

Another paid NRA/Gungeon billh58 Dec 2012 #25

So you are still saying "all gun owners have blood on their hands" ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #22

Look at the premise of the OP. baldguy Dec 2012 #23

Mass shootings would then ironically result in Darwin Awards NoOneMan Dec 2012 #5

Who is going to do that? XRubicon Dec 2012 #6

I've been making twinkies at home for a few weeks now.... hope I don't get caught. n/t 2on2u Dec 2012 #9

OK you make a semi auto, you go to jail for say 10 years...how many jmg257 Dec 2012 #10

What risk? shintao Dec 2012 #26

Yep - build an illegal gun, go shoot up a school, then run away... jmg257 Dec 2012 #30

That's one of the things that worries me personally. AverageJoe90 Dec 2012 #38

From the looks of it, we can worry about that in a couple of decades or more. bluedigger Dec 2012 #11

When you use common sense billh58 Dec 2012 #32

All this will do is end up having 3D printers treated lie high definition color printers. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #12

Feeble reason not to make a law frazzled Dec 2012 #13

Well why don't we just write a few red light, tax, arson laws? shintao Dec 2012 #28

That's not a reason to give up on a ban. n/t backscatter712 Dec 2012 #14

You mean gun owners aren't so friggin "law-abiding" after all. Hoyt Dec 2012 #15

This is true. Taverner Dec 2012 #16

Who is They? XRubicon Dec 2012 #17

They = people who have access to welding equipment Taverner Dec 2012 #18

Ok... I guess I need to adjust my tinfoil hat to your frequency XRubicon Dec 2012 #20

oh please. People just aren't very handy, in general. Schema Thing Dec 2012 #29

you need real men molonlabe91 Dec 2012 #33

oh go away, troll. Schema Thing Dec 2012 #37

I don't know where you live, but Matt_R Dec 2012 #49

Duh! ProfessorGAC Dec 2012 #53

sounds like a threat to me....you can make dynamite a home to spanone Dec 2012 #21

Have you all been living under a bridge? Mopar151 Dec 2012 #24

Makes sense to me, Mopar. n/t AverageJoe90 Dec 2012 #39

Indeed, handcrafting of firearms is not the problem. bluedigger Dec 2012 #41

Make it a 40 year sentence if caught with one Politicalboi Dec 2012 #27

We already have one of the largest prison populations on the planet pediatricmedic Dec 2012 #44

We have one of the largest billh58 Dec 2012 #51

So we should do nothing, right? malz Dec 2012 #31

:-) molonlabe91 Dec 2012 #34

Do you have any children? XRubicon Dec 2012 #35

Awww, the nice troll billh58 Dec 2012 #36

Ok by me. bhikkhu Dec 2012 #40

When you start your argument with a strawman like "guns you hate the looks of" drm604 Dec 2012 #42

You would think that billh58 Dec 2012 #46

Except the last AWB and to an extent the currently proposed one sir pball Dec 2012 #50

More smoke and mirrors billh58 Dec 2012 #54

Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #59

And once again, no one billh58 Dec 2012 #62

Actually if you want good policy you should care. nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #63

Yes, my Queen. As you wish. billh58 Dec 2012 #70

At a policy level you should. nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #72

Oh, my. Another lecture from an "expert." billh58 Dec 2012 #73

So if you spent time in the bush nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #74

Yes, I have billh58 Dec 2012 #75

What you want is the extension of the 1934 laws nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #76

It is the mind set of those attracted to the "Bushmaster" style, military knock-off, assault rifles. RC Dec 2012 #57

Have you seen the videos of the Pakistani gun markets? pediatricmedic Dec 2012 #43

Other countries manage it somehow, drm604 Dec 2012 #45

Good choice of comparisons, billh58 Dec 2012 #48

+100 Good post. RC Dec 2012 #58

Good luck Macguiver XRubicon Dec 2012 #61

as long as it keeps them busy at home, maybe they will leave us all alone SoCalDem Dec 2012 #47

why don't we try the ban and then revisit it in 5 years samsingh Dec 2012 #52

I used to think that it was only freepers and the like...... wandy Dec 2012 #55

remember heath kit radios dembotoz Dec 2012 #56

Bullshit. ellisonz Dec 2012 #60

Lanza would not have been able to (nt) Nye Bevan Dec 2012 #64

It doesn't matter how good a weapon you have rrneck Dec 2012 #65

or you use yours first dembotoz Dec 2012 #67

True. nt rrneck Dec 2012 #68

Why stick with semi-auto? It's just as easy to make a full auto weapon. Kaleva Dec 2012 #66

Who'd thunk we would have computers made in a garage!? Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #69

Which means we should do nothing, right? NashvilleLefty Dec 2012 #71