What to do, what to do...
I saw this and thought some Freepers might want to read and discuss it.
1 posted on
05/23/2003 8:41:29 AM PDT by
Hatteras
To: Hatteras
There was a post a few days ago where a guy in Britain killed himself with a crossbow. If they took the guns from this guy, he could have used an axe, a baseball bat, car or whatever.
To: Hatteras
A very sad story. Especially for Ashley Thomas, 9, let alone the adults. It is rather scary that you can get to a place where you can commit such acts.
3 posted on
05/23/2003 8:49:32 AM PDT by
TheDon
( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
To: Hatteras
It is obvious. Guns have magical properties that drive you insane and MAKE you kill people.
4 posted on
05/23/2003 8:50:20 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
To: Hatteras
Not really much to discuss. Sometimes people kill people. It's not really a gun issue here. The issue seems to be whether a person considered to be a threat to themself and others should be free. Making a case that people deemed a threat should be locked up is a lot more slippery a slope than I'd go on. Who can determine you to be a threat? Who puts you away? For how long are you put away? All very touchy issues. I don't think he had a criminal or violent history so??????? That's it for me.
6 posted on
05/23/2003 8:50:57 AM PDT by
Conspiracy Guy
(If you're looking for a friend, get a dog.)
To: Hatteras
The Swiss are the most heavily armed population on Earth and have the lowest rate of suicide and crime of the industrialized nations.
The Japanese are almost totally disarmed and have the highest suicide rate of the industrialized world.
It has to do more with culture than weapons.
To: Hatteras
The gun did not have a mind of it's own. Nor did it initiate any attacks. The desire to kill can find any number of ways to accomplish the task, firearm or no firearm.
8 posted on
05/23/2003 10:18:29 AM PDT by
Wneighbor
(aka Mrs. Field)
To: Hatteras
Back-door gun registration Bump.
To: Hatteras
The only real permit anyone ever needs:
10 posted on
05/23/2003 10:41:19 AM PDT by
lowbridge
(Rob: I have a five letter word: F-R-E-E-P. Freep. Jerry: Freep? What's that? -Dick Van Dyke Show)
To: Hatteras
The only law I know of that discusses this is the following:
18 USC 922(d)(4)
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person -
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(4) has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;
And nothing in there says that LEOs can come in and take them away from someone.
12 posted on
05/23/2003 12:12:16 PM PDT by
George Smiley
(Is it still a right if you have to get the government's permission before you can exercise it?)
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