[holyscroller]

The end result of this should not be further gun control. It should be (as Bill O'Reilly said night before last) that ALIENS should not be allowed to have guns. Any alien of any stripe (legal or illegal) caught with a gun, should automatically get a 10-year prison sentence and then permanently deported!

I can't think of a single reason for an alien to have a gun. Can you?

[arthurus]

And just how would not permitting aliens to have guns prevent any crimes??? Is it not an adage that criminals will get guns illegally? How is a prohibition against aliens possessing guns going to affect anything? Why not pass a law that makes it illegal for someone who is going to commit a crime to possess a gun? That will fix it! Then we could pass laws making it illegal for aliens to fly big airplanes into buildings, too.

[piasa]

I can't think of a single reason for an alien to have a gun. Can you?

Yes. Self defense. Thugs down here in FL liked to target foreign tourists because they are not going to be armed. Before the state changed the plate style on rental cars they really stood out from those of possibly armed Florida citizens so the muggers and rapists gravitated to the rentals.

[Alter Kaker]

There already are laws on the books that in theory prevent people who have been institutionalized for psychiatric reasons from purchasing firearms. Again, in theory, that would have prevented Cho from legally purchasing firearms.

In Virginia, however, there is no way for store owner to see if a gun purchaser has been institutionalized.

[Sir Gawain]

Even illegal aliens have a God-given right to self-defense. I’m disarmed when I go to other countries. Should I lose my right to self defense just because I travel away from home?

[aristotleman]

.......

(at a loss for words )

[piasa]

The end result of this should not be further gun control. It should be (as Bill O'Reilly said night before last) that ALIENS should not be allowed to have guns.

That WOULD be gun control. The problem here wasn't that a nut could get a gun or an alien could get a gun. The problem was that so many other people qualified to own guns didn't have them when they needed them, thanks to gun control, fear of litigation, liberals, conditioning, etc.