Like Chris Rock, I wouldn't try gun control at all, however I would charge $5,000 a bullet

[MrScorpio]

"He must have really wanted that guy dead, he just shot $50,000 worth of bullets in his ass."

Bullet control, baby!

[Political Heretic]

1. I'm gonna get me a second job, and then your ass history!

:rofl:

[ddeclue]

2. Bullets ought to have tracer ID particles added to them so that the bullets can be traced

instead of requiring the gun to identify the shooter.

[NeedleCast]

3. Kinda already have that

Thanks to rifling marks on a bullet as it passes down the barrel of a gun.

I'm not really sure what tracable particles on a bullet would do...?

[walldude]

10. Yeah but you still need the gun to identify the rifling marks

I think declue was talking about being aboe to identify without the gun.

[Raskolnik]

6. You know that would just create an enormous, untaxed, unregulated black market, right?

I'm sure you know that the ability to produce fairly large amounts of ammunition from the raw materials is not exactly rocket science. How do you propose eliminating that criminal black market?

[sui generis]

11. First, we wait for the criminal black market to form . . .

See, why would all these law loving authority types who can't run twenty feet without having a coronary but need to have a gun strapped to their ass to feel safe need to break the law to get ammunition?

Oh I would add on top of 5,000 dollars a bullet, if you're caught with contraband we execute your whole family three generations in each direction.

I'll bet there would be a drastic drop in gun crime. . . .

[Raskolnik]

12. You have a good handle on who owns firearms, and who uses

firearms to commit crimes.

[Taitertots]

18. Well if you have given up on the constitution

Why don't we just execute every poor person? Income is one of the strongest factors in violence. It seems you think only the wealthy are worthy of rights anyway.

Then we can kill everyone in jail for any crime because they have another strong indicator of future crime.

[sui generis]

21. you do know I said nothing even remotely along those lines?

let me clarify my stance:

most rabid obsessed gun owners need their guns the way child molesters need children, and for exactly the same reason.

Just please don't ascribe words about poverty and other horseshit to me.

There are rational gun owners. They don't post here.

[Democracyinkind]

13. That's how they framed Judge Dredd! Don't trust them!

[sakabatou]

4. Yep. Bullet control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cce2xX594_M

[Warpy]

5. I've always wanted gun licenses just like car licenses.

You can own as many cars as you want but you have to be licensed to drive them after passing a safety test.

You can own as many guns as you want, but you need to take a safety course, be tested and be licensed to buy that ammo.

No, it won't stop people who have the gumption to make their own, but it'll stop the 95% who don't have that kind of gumption. It won't stop the black market, either, but it will slow it down.

Sometimes slowing it down is the best you can do. At least it improves your odds.

[gorfle]

24. Gun licenses ARE like car licenses

Today, if you want to operate a car on public property, you have to have a license. If you want to carry a gun in public, you have to have a license.

Today, if you want to operate a car on private property, you need no license, registration, or insurance. Same way with a gun.

[Better Believe It]

7. And only the rich would be able to buy the bullets. Not so sure I like that! :)

[Democracyinkind]

14. They would hire goons who would turn on them as soon as the table turns...

[SteveM]

26. The trouble with Jim Crow gun laws: it hit poor whites as well as blacks (nt)

[Raskolnik]

8. Funny, but not exactly knowledgeable. n/t

[Better Believe It]

9. It was suppose to be funny. And I support the right of people to own guns.

I don't like the idea of only the government having weapons that can be used against the people.

[Democracyinkind]

15. Just not bullets, I get that. I get jokes.

[Old and In the Way]

16. Well, the Constitution doesn't say anything about bullets....

everyone's happy! Gun lovers can have all the guns they want because guns don't kill people, bullets do. And we'll see a lot less carnage caused by the things that do kill people...bullets.

[jeepnstein]

22. It doesn't say "guns" either.

It says "arms", and more specifically "well-regulated" arms. In other words, a weapon acceptable for military use and the proper bits to make it work. Ammo is covered under the 2nd Amendment.

[old mark]

17. Fortunately we still live in a free country where ideas such as this

won't fly.

mark

[pegdraggin]

19. What a great idea!

This way, you can effectively undermine the constitutional rights of all Americans without actually having to ammend the constitution by legal means.
Good for you!

I remember a lawyer a while ago that made the news after he repeatedly sued a couple he had gotten into an altercation with. Long story short, he wanted to fuck them over, so he just started suing them... for everything imaginable. He knew the lawsuits were without merit, and would be eventually dismissed or ruled against, but that wasn't the point. By the time he was done, he had managed to bankrupt them, as each and every time he filed suit, they were forced to hire an attorney they couldn't afford.

Legally, he was in the right. But his actions were morally reprehensible. So it is with your suggestion.

If you can't get the American public to agree on gun control - then controlling guns in whatever manner you suggest is against the will of the people. When you start looking to exploit loopholes to undermine the will of the people, you become a tyrant.

[MrScorpio]

20. You forgot the "Sarcasm" smilie

Thanks!

:hug:

[jmg257]

23. Chris Rock could afford them. Poorer people? Not so much.

[slackmaster]

25. That's about the most regressive idea I've seen in a long time

You want only wealthy people to be able to afford ammunition?

That's fucked up.

[SteveM]

27. Gun controllers come up with a good joke now & then. But this one's old. (nt)