[MissTargets]

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[Straight Vermonter]

We should make guns illegal then we will no longer have to worry about guns. After all the drug laws have been effective in keeping drugs out of the country.

[PLMerite]

They can pass all the laws they want. They'll still have to climb over a lot of bodies to pry my gun from my cold, dead hands.

[Core_Conservative]

Don't they have very strict gun laws in England? So this 17 year old kid would not have been able to get a gun? What is it with these people, do they really think that having more gun laws will make criminals start obeying the law?

[Wonder Warthog]

"One would expand current ballistic fingerprinting, which now covers handguns, to include rifles and shotguns."

I "REALLY, REALLY" want one of the anti-gunners to explain to me just how they are going to get a "ballistic fingerprint" on a SHOTGUN!!!

[Dante3]

"Chief Moose endorses three gun-control bills," The Washington Times, Feb. 7, 2003, p. B3

[Jaxter]

[Puppage]

The mother of one of the men killed in the sniper shootings made an emotional appeal in Annapolis Thursday for three gun control bills.

Well, there ya have it...I FEEEEEL we need more laws. Like these scum snipers would have said "oh, geez. We can't do THAT. THAT'S against the law".

Last time I looked MURDER WAS AGAINST THE LAW

[biblewonk]

Does it occur to this woman what a sniper could have done with a Remington hunting rifle in say .308? Do the 41,500 people killed in car accidents register to her?

[AlabamaRebel]

"One would expand current ballistic fingerprinting, which now covers handguns, to include rifles and shotguns."

Fingerprinting would surely stop crimes NOT. It wouldn't help to solve crimes. As an ex firearms dealer I know people have to go through a background check to purchase a new frame for their weapon, but not a new barrel. Ballistics come from the rifling in the barrel, not the serial number on the frame. Shotguns? what ballistics.

"ban all types of assault weapons"

Now you know we just HAVE TO get rid of assault weapons. You have heard about all those gang related Drive By Bayoneting's haven't you?

"copycat weapons just as deadly as those banned"

A bolt action .22 caliber is just as deadly as the assault weapons they are trying to ban which happens to be .223 caliber (just a hair larger).

"report a lost or stolen gun"

This is the only intelligent thing they say. You should report it stolen. If you don't and it's used in a crime, you know the first person they will be questioning don't you?

"Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose"

You people in Montgomery County better really watch this guy, he was the chief here in Portland, Oregon. Not one soul around here is sorry he was forced out.

"I demand that the gun lobby look me in the eye when they say guns don't kill people, kill people. Because, after all, the man or men who killed my son, Conrad, from hundreds of yards away could not have used a knife or their bare hands. The only weapon they could have used to fulfill their bloody mission was a gun,"

If people don't kill people, guns kill people, then might I suggest they let the snipers out and put the weapon in prison.

If there would have been 200 people caring guns on the day of the first shooting, I'll just bet her son wouldn't have been shot. The snipers would have gone down, no trial no cost to tax payers.

I might also mention that not one of my weapons has ever killed anyone.

"Gov. Bob Ehrlich said the state already had some of the toughest gun laws in the nation."

DC and New York have the toughest gun laws in the nation. Look at how safe their cities are.

That's why I live where I do. We don't have the violent crimes in my town like other cities, because the criminals know that their occupation is VERY hazardous around here.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"That means the gun industry can and does make copycat weapons just as deadly as those banned"

And even with the ban, there will be rifles even more dealy accurate than those banned.

[archy]

...said Sonia Wills, whose son, Conrad Johnson, (pictured, left) was the last victim of the snipers. He was killed on Oct. 22.

Too bad for him that the snipers weren't shot by armed citizens during one of their previous attacks. I wonder who helped them get away with their murderous acts for so long.

-archy-/-

[FSPress]

This bit about reporting stolen guns really makes me happy. For years I have been plagued by gun thieves. Even with safes and locked cabinets the they have still managed to steal most of my guns. I have tried report all of this theft but have received no response at all form the authorities. Maybe if others report their loses more promptly they will eventually catch this nationwide ring of thieves.

Oh well, enough of this, I need to go work on the pasture fences again. Now where did I leave those post hole diggers..............