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In reply to the discussion: Media Ignores Call For Gun Violence Prevention In Loughner Sentencing Hearing [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)20. not true either
The NRA is who was responsible for the NICS being made VOLUNTARY, not mandatory; as a result some 30 states have zero, or at best incomplete submission of data to that database, and each state own the data not the data base. One of the single worst categories for compliance is in submission of data on violent convicted felons and on those adjudicated dangerously mentally ill.
Not true either. NICS mandatory, some states does their own background checks, others forward them to the FBI. Also, forwarding records to the FBI is the responsibility of the states, that is how our federal system works, unfunded mandates are not allowed under system. That is how part of the original Brady law got struck down, unfunded mandates on local LEO, violating the 10A.
Everything in the Frank Luntz poll is current law on either the federal level or most states. IOW, it supports the status quo.
The NRA is NOT against guns in the hands of dangerous people; they oppose law enforcement at every turn, including the promotion of carry laws and castle doctrine legislation like the shoot first laws that have resulted in more, not fewer firearms deaths.
Canada has castle doctrine, it dates back to English common law. Carry laws have nothing to do with violent crimes.
Newspapers are not "well documented"
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Media Ignores Call For Gun Violence Prevention In Loughner Sentencing Hearing [View all]
SecularMotion
Nov 2012
OP
Loughner is a Mental Case and a call to our Nation to implement a liberal National Healthcare Policy
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#2
Shit, my deer gun is termed by the Military as a Battle Rifle. Order of magnitude more powerful
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2012
#62
So just who the fuck are you to pass judgements on other Democrats?
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2012
#81
So why do you think those who support more gun restrictions are failing so miserably?
aikoaiko
Nov 2012
#4
NRA expenditures for an example - perhaps you should be doing more research?
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#9
Actually, you need to read for content and understand the law better
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#14
It says that the poster is clueless about the law and structure of these things
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#80
Other than the position and standing from a long list of candidates
fightthegoodfightnow
Nov 2012
#84
If by myth, to claim that any effect they have is grossly exaggerated - YES
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#16
Then to what do you attribute the almost non-existence expansion of gun control laws?
aikoaiko
Nov 2012
#18
That question will not be answered by your interlocutor. Bet on it...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2012
#32
"Grass roots groups?" That's the trouble with the gun-control outlook: It isn't grassroots...
Eleanors38
Nov 2012
#22
NRA failure successfully to affect outcome of election, despite spending money
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#11
Rove AND the NRA BOTH had extremely poor returns --- and in the cas of the NRA, it's not new
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#17
I could with equal validity claim *this* guy is "representative of gun owners"
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2012
#40
The NRA is one of the core founding groups of ALEC, gun control popularity
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#15
English Castle Doctrine includes a VERY strong duty to retreat, always has
Dog Gone at Penigma
Nov 2012
#35
On what screwed up, backward planet is self-defense equated to law enforcement?
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2012
#60
They've demonstrated yet again gun control advocacy is religious in nature.
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2012
#74
Actually the details matter, and you are are yet to get many of them correct
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#79
Frank Luntz, as in "Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear"?
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2012
#34
There is no broad bipartisan support for gun control, not much grass roots support for it either
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#91