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DonP

(6,185 posts)
25. Wow! That would be great!
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 06:33 PM
Feb 2012

They couldn't ban my guns just because they might look like a NASCAR racer.

It's none of the government's business what's under the "hood".

No waiting period to pick up your car or any background checks involved

We give a drivers license to every seventeen-year-old high school student who can pass a lowest-common-denominator Drivers Ed course. A course that can be successfully passed by a lobotomized chimpanzee.

We even give drivers licenses to 16 year-old kids who state that they have a particular hardship with no limits on what they can drive or even own.

You'll give a gun license to every 17 year-old who wants one, even if he has a police record -- just like a drivers license.

Any person who possesses a drivers license can drive on any public road on any state in the Union. They can drive on school grounds, they can drive on college campuses, and they can drive to any courthouse in the Union.

You'll let anyone with a gun license carry a gun anywhere they want to, in every State in the Union -- just like a drivers license.

Drivers licenses issued by one State must be honoured by all other States. Anyone with a Texas Drivers License can drive any car he (or she) wants to, anywhere in New York City that he can fit. And the New York authorities don't have a thing to say about the matter.

You'll let any 17 year-old cowboy from Bugscuffle, West Texas carry his gun anywhere he wants to in New York and tell the New York authorities they can't do anything about it -- just like a drivers license.

If you get caught driving a car without your drivers license, you get a $90 traffic ticket that comes off your record in three years.

Tell me that if that Texas cowpoke is visiting Chicago, and gets caught carrying his gun without his license, he just gets a citation -- just like a drivers license.

No one must undergo a background check to get a drivers license, any felon can get a drivers license, no background mental health checks are required for a drivers license.

You'll let everyone -- 17 to 70, felons, no mental checks, pay your money, take your test, here's your gun license -- just like a drivers license.

If I'm on private property, I don't even need a driver license to drive any car I want to, the only limit to the number of cars I can possess is the size of my bank account.

I can buy as many cars at once as my wallet can stand, and I can buy a car off a street corner in Compton today, another from a back-yard in New York tomorrow. Pay the taxes, transfer the title and that's it.

I can import cars as many as a I want, from any country that I want, and I can sell or trade any or all of them to anyone I want -- and the Federal Government doesn't have word one to say about the matter.

I build any car I want to in my garage -- with no Federal permission; I can modify, cut-down, trick-out, customize or skeletonize any car I want to without so much as a "Yes", "No", "Boo", "Kiss my ass" or "By your leave" from the Federal Government.

Oh, I'm sorry you were probably trying to be funny and it just came out ignorant and totally thought free.

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So... Basically he is saying: "We can't fight actual crime or actual criminals" Glassunion Feb 2012 #1
I was shocked to read that more than 1/2 of guns used in Chicago crimes were from outstate areas. Lefty48197 Feb 2012 #8
Here is the problem Glassunion Feb 2012 #9
Really? You are implying direct sales. PavePusher Feb 2012 #13
I don't think that has much bearing on the behavior of the thug... SteveW Feb 2012 #20
Since there are exactly zero gun stores in Chicago, I'd guess they all came from out of the city DonP Feb 2012 #22
...but we can impose restrictions on the law-abiding -- and get a fee, too! nt SteveW Feb 2012 #19
LOL he just won't give up will he... virginia mountainman Feb 2012 #2
Well, it's not like it's his own money anyway DonP Feb 2012 #4
idiot Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #3
you took the word right out of my mouth and I don't use that word lightly and I will add Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #14
Sorry to the Obama camp but marsis Feb 2012 #5
This is getting raked over the coals at HuffPo and the Chicago Trib: friendly_iconoclast Feb 2012 #6
He's going for broke. Clames Feb 2012 #7
he he he... krispos42 Feb 2012 #10
That and if you don't pay your government Glassunion Feb 2012 #11
And thus can't own a gun! krispos42 Feb 2012 #16
statewide to cure his cities problem.....hummm.... ileus Feb 2012 #12
To the Greatest PAge jpak Feb 2012 #15
"To the Greatest Page." Simo 1939_1940 Feb 2012 #17
Good to see we agree. TheWraith Feb 2012 #18
To the greatest Pennsylvania-ge? I don't get it. nt SteveW Feb 2012 #21
start at state level then take the dog and pony show nationally... ileus Feb 2012 #23
Whoa. You mean guns will be as closely regulated as cars??? Doctor_J Feb 2012 #24
Wow! That would be great! DonP Feb 2012 #25
+ 1000000000 cleanhippie Feb 2012 #26
Nice Job!! CokeMachine Feb 2012 #31
what a gorgeous rant. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #33
I didn't write this, but wish I had shadowrider Feb 2012 #27
The horror! Don't you realize that handguns are WAY more important than cars? DanTex Feb 2012 #28
Post removed Post removed Feb 2012 #29
Actually, I was talking to Doctor_J, if that's who you mean. DanTex Feb 2012 #30
GUNS ARE TOOLS! TOOLS I TELL YOU! ellisonz Feb 2012 #32
You were correct right up until you inserted the sarcasm tag. ManiacJoe Feb 2012 #34
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