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...made it easy for them to get their guns. All it took was a friend to pick up the murder weapons at a local gun show -- a friend who later testified that she never would have bought the guns if she had been subject to a background check...
...Despite a history of troubles at school, a 17-year-old was legally authorized to own the 9mm handgun and pump-action rifle that he used to kill 17 people, including students, teachers, a policeman and himself. He obtained a German firearms license with relative ease -- no psychological examination required....
...The new (German) laws don't preclude private ownership of guns, they just include common-sense measures: raising the age of ownership for firearms from 18 to 21; requiring that people under 25 seeking to purchase a gun pass a psychological examination; and banning pump-action guns....
Was this woman born stupid, or did she have to work at it? She implies that background checks and "psychological exams" would have prevented the Columbine disaster?

I can't figure out where she's going with this. Her position is so disjointed that it makes even less sense than the premise starts with.

Because of the issues raised in the wake of Columbine, she wants to have legislation pushed through that would "close the loophole," as she puts it, that would limit gunshow registration. Then she wants to raise the age of ownership from 18 to 21; Finally she wants to ban pump action guns?

Can anyone see the path she's trying to take? This looks more like a "scatter-gun" approach (pun not intended) to ultimately try to ramrod a total ban through.

Let's take this point by point.

Limiting gun show sales would do nothing to stem the violence she says guns perpetrating on our society. Honest citizens would pass through the system, and the bad guys would continue to use the black or gray market to get their firearms. Next!
Raising the ownership limit from 18 to 21 becomes questionable, considering that we have no problem with arming our 18 year-olds to defend this land from enemies foreign and domestic. What's she going to do, eliminate 18 to 21 year-olds from the armed forces? I don't think so. Next!
Finally, she wants to get rid of pump-action guns. She gives no rationale, no logic, no reason for this. It's more of an "oh, by the way, let's get rid of these for the hell of it!" She probably figures she can sneak that one in to wipe out the shotguns and pump-action rifles, which would make it easier for her to get rid of the handguns next time around.

This moron thinks that people are stupid. She must if she thinks this is anything that a rational, thinking person could agree with.

As with the poverty pimps, the gun grabbers use emotion to cloud the thinking of people who would otherwise have a reasoned and logical response to her suggestions. Only this time, she tries to point to Germany and say "See! They've got more sense than we do!"

I wonder what'll happen next time someone breaks into her home...

Only this time, she tries to point to Germany and say "See! They've got more sense than we do!"

The way I figure it, using the MMM figure of 30,000 gun deaths a year, we have 333 and a third years before we catch up to the 10 Million citizens exterminated by those sensible Germans in the '30s and '40s.

Was this woman born stupid, or did she have to work at it?

She was probably born stupid, but had to work hard at becoming a complete idiot. Her position goes beyond ignorance - ignorance is curable, but the desire to wilfully lie to promote one's position generally is not...