Only criminals benefit from weak gun laws (Megabarf Alert)

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 12/4/07 | Maureen Downey

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Librags like the AJC go ballistic in Georgia because even the Legislature laughs at them. Many contests in each district (outside of Atlanta, of course)have both people vying for election with "A" or better ratings from the NRA. Our current Governor has an A+ rating and the man he ran against, Roy Barnes, was also an A-Rated NRA Life Member. Let those AJC jackasses bray all they want, the Georgia politicians know how to protect our gun rights.

[thefactor]

i cannot stand these people. so misinformed. by transporting guns across state lines, these people are already committing federal felonies! how about we enforce the gun laws we already have?!?

[goldstategop]

Its amusing to see liberals in favor of property rights when the Second Amendment is at issue. The rest of time they could a fig about private property or any one else's rights for that matter. The Atlanta Constitution Journal thinks Yankees have a right to impose their liberal values upon the South. Screw 'em!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Don Corleone]

Yeah! Like my button men were going to drive all the way to Georgia just to get a piece.The good ones were behind the toilet anyway.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Gun control laws increase the power of government and the
criminal element over the average citizen and serve no
other purpose.
- Robert E. Lee

A goverment that fears arms in the hands of it people
should also fear ROPE!
- Nathan Bedford Forrest about 1845

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better
for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked
with greater confidence than an armed one.
- Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.

[Dick Bachert]

WHY DO THEY WANT OUR GUNS?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

[coloradan]

How about we repeal all unconstitutional gun laws, which is all of them? The author of this article is right, only criminals benefit (a little bit) from weak gun laws, and only criminals benefit (a lot) from extremely strict gun laws, e.g. as in Washington DC, where the criminals essentially run the place. The only thing that benefits the non-criminals is the absence of laws that weaken them (the non-criminals) in the face of criminals.

[umgud]

Northern states are getting tired of watching their residents gunned down by weapons imported from the South.

Who had their fingers on the triggers on those guns that originated in the south?

Sounds to me like a northerner problem.

[Nathan Zachary]

Only criminals benefit from weak gun laws

There, fixed it.

Isn't it typical that the writer of this garbage completely ignores the fact that the people who are transporting these guns in violation of are not obeying the law of the nanny states they are allegedly "smuggling" guns into? Listen you goofball, and i know you are out there looking in vain for response to your garbage article. Lawfull americans do not break the law, nor do they use their guns to commit crimes. Crimminals are the ones who break the law and commit crimes with guns. No "law" is going to make them turn into lawful, honest citizens of the USA. I dare suggest that you are not an honest, law abiding citizen of the USA either, because you are attempting to decieve people in this country into thinking a gun law would be obeyed by the crimminal minded people in this country ( which a stupid liberal like you would let out of prison anyway so they can commit the same crime over and over again) and because you campaign to deny the good citizens of this nation their constitutional right to bear arms and to defend themselves.

[MosesKnows]

No one wants a society where gun laws are so lax

An armed society is a polite society.

Folks unemcumbered with a thought process will have difficulty comprehending the wisdom of that concept.

[MosesKnows]

easier for criminals to buy a firearm here than in New York or New Jersey

The solution is not to make it more diffcult for law abiding citizens in Georgia but rather to make it easier for the law abiding citizens of New York and New Jersey.

[glorgau]

If they are criminals, then by definition they break laws.

[Nathan Zachary]

"easier for criminals to buy a firearm here than in New York or New Jersey"

Criminals cannot buy firearms. It's illegal. Since it's already a "law", There should be no crime. FACT: Not one law abiding citizen has ever committed a crime with a firearm in the countries entire history.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’d bet everything I have that Maureen Downey packs heat.

[Don W]

The least this scribbler could do when he chose to use alliteration was to carry it through into the second sentence: pecans, peaches, peanuts...PISTOLS.

PUTZ! I shant deign to comment on the utterly flawed premise of the article.

[backhoe]

Keep these handy:

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[Carbonsteel]

Ping

[BOBWADE]

Why not just enforce the current laws. Criminals don’t care how many laws they break, gun laws only effect the law abiding citizens and their ability to protect themselves.

[EdReform]

BTTT

Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism

[javachip]

"It does not mandate that handguns be ballistic fingerprinted, a step that would greatly aid law enforcement in tracking crime guns."

Maryland had a ballistic fingerprinting law a while back. They ended it because after several years, thousands of fingerprinted firearms, and millions of dollars, the ballistic fingerprinting program had solved exactly zero crimes.