Like that poor lady in the white jacket?
Makes you wonder, don't it?
Posted on 07/26/2012 6:14:50 AM PDT by rellimpank
When someone is ill or anxious to avoid illness, he may be open to any possible treatments. That's why quack remedies, untested formulas and obvious placebos often find takers. When a mass shooting occurs, the urge to find a cure is powerful. As a rule, though, those that emerge are the practical equivalent of sugar pills.
A nation with very few guns, exceedingly tight firearms restrictions and little interest in such weaponry would not experience these atrocities as often as ours does. But in a society with hundreds of millions of guns and huge demand for them, as well as high rates of violent crime of all sorts, the challenge borders on the insurmountable.
The tactics used by the alleged killer in this case serve gun control supporters as a road map to what should be done. He had an AR-15 "assault weapon," proving we should prohibit these guns. He had a magazine that can hold 100 cartridges, dramatizing the need to restrict magazine capacity. He bought some 6,000 rounds over the Internet, suggesting that the government should outlaw large purchases or monitor anyone who makes them.
All these conclusions sound perfectly plausible. And none of them offers any prospect of averting the next massacre
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Makes me decide I need to upgrade to a Veridian green laser/LED light under barrel attachment. And the smallest NVG goggles or monocular I can find.
If you are getting NVG, you can get an IR laser instead of the green. You’ll see the IR laser, maybe 808 or 850 nm, just fine with NVG, or any digital camera, and nobody without NVG will.
On July 22 of last year, Norway’s mass murderer killed 77 teenagers at a youth camp. Norway has very strict gun laws. There is no way governments can prevent these evil outbursts unless it cages everyone.
Like that poor lady in the white jacket?
Makes you wonder, don't it?
Laws only impact the law abiding.
If they had an impact on criminals, law breakers wouldn’t exist..
And the knee jerk reaction of liberals and idiots is.. make more laws.
Bill Clowntoon already warned the dumba$$ what happens when RATS push gun control.
Mutt Romney will win in a landslide now and Dingy Harry can kiss the Senate goodbye.
There was virtually no looting in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. Is it because they have a law against it?
Their culture is different from ours.
They still, in most places, teach the concept of respect.
“That’s not yours” is still an understood concept over there.
On the other hand, there is one hell of a lot of rape in Japan, and reporting it in their culture results in an even worse situation for the victim than suffering silently.
Japan is not a utopia by any stretch.
We don’t need any lectures on “gun control” from a Chicago newspaper.
http://crimeinchicago.blogspot.com/
One hour ago: Chicago police were questioning several males this morning following a shooting during a home invasion on the city’s South Side.
Authorities said four or five males, all armed, forced entry into a home in the 1400 block of East 73rd St. in the Grand Crossing neighborhood at about 9:45 p.m.
The dirty secret of “gun control” is that it isn’t about guns: It’s about control.
I thought the IR lasers were banned from “civilian” sales under Clinton and one needs a cop-shop P.O. for purchase. Has that restriction gone by the wayside? Definitely the hot set-up for night coyote shoots if one can get below their vision spectrum.
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It may be illegal to sell an IR laser sight, but the green module comes out, and many lasers come in standard sizes, typically 12 mm dia.
I’d worry that the bright green dot would mess up your NVG, way too contrasty.
“Mutt Romney will win in a landslide now”
He has to be careful, he signed an assault weapon ban into law that has a $10,000 penalty for possessing a mag with more than ten rounds (if made after the enactment date).
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.” Mitt Romney, 2004
No, you will be an outlaw.
At the time, the Globe, Herald, and other papers reported that if the Fed AWB expired, the Massachusetts one would too, so action must be taken promptly. Both houses then handed Mitt an AWB, which he signed, and made the statement I quoted above.
Later, much later, the reporting now says that golly, the MA AWB would dot have expired so Mitt actually did not sign a permanent ban (though, oddly, he did sign the bill).
It’s clear from Romney’ signing statement that he does not like “assault weapons” and probably THOUGHT he was signing a permanent ban. All the reporting surrounding the event said so.
And the penalties for illegal possession of a normal size magazine is still pretty steep.
P.S. I forgot to add: The “large capacity” magazine restriction was in MGL CH180 passed into law in 1998. That was not Romney’s baby. Harshbarger had been pushing gun control for decades — CH180 was his bastard-child. It was signed by Paul Cellucci. CH180 is a classic example of an oppressive law that accomplished NOthing except to give power to politicians and bureaucrats.
Considering the major errors on your first paragraph, I’d sure like to see a source for the “quote” you posted. (With all due respect, I really am curious.)
My sources:
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/1998/Chapter180
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=34
At the time, the Globe, Herald, and other papers reported that if the Fed AWB expired, the Massachusetts one would too, so action must be taken promptly. Both houses then handed Mitt an AWB, which he signed, and made the statement I quoted above.
Clearly you didn’t read the article at the link I posted, so let me excerpt for you:
“Press and media stories around the country got it completely wrong when claimed the bill was an extension of the “assault weapon” ban that had sunset at the federal level.”
and if you read my reference links in my followup post, you’ll see the (so-called) assault weapons ban is in CH180 passed in 1998 and signed by Celluci.
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All your data are incorrect. (Unless you have a good source for that “quote.”)
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