Posted on 04/09/2002 5:58:50 AM PDT by areafiftyone
WHAT!? It's no problem for felons to have guns or felons never committed crimes with guns until...
They take a single incident that makes their case, then generalize on it, claiming all former mental patients are a threat to civilization as we know it.
And people who have had a restraining order against them. Well, that could be something like half of all divorced men if you think about it. And a fair percentage of women.
Pretty soon, expect that having bad credit will be cause for denying a person his right to own a firearm.
Actually upChuck wants to restrict gun sales so that only the police and the military will be armed, just the way the first Nazis did.
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