Doesn't matter. If a determined psycho wants a gun, he will get one. The left knows it. Their bill would do little except to restrict law abiding citizens' rights.
I gotta disagree here. It's a good trade, it actually gives the non-psycho, law-abiding citizens more freedom than they presently have, and does 'something' to protect the public. It obviously wouldn't have stopped lanza, but maybe that other clown who shot up the batman movie. I realize, as you do, that the rabid left is out to confiscate guns. I also realize that no law or anything short of another armed individual, is going to stop someone (insane or not) bent on killing people. But this compromise would be a win imo, and i don't see how it could used to restrict a law abiding citizen's Rights. it is also better for the crazy people than locking them up and tossing the key, they're insane but wtf. edit: you might be talking about the bill that didn't pass today, which i agree was bullshit. This post^ was based on the assumption that we were talking about the imaginary deal ricter was asking u about in this post:
Fuck the real bill, i am talking about the compromise that i posted a few pages back (in the post you quoted).
Why don't we all agree Luke and I should pay ricter's airfare here, then take him night fishing in the Atlantic? No, not at the "Orlando sea port" he "sailed" into. The REAL Atlantic Ocean. Should be a great time!
When bombs go off in Boston, the media blames the bomber, yet when a lunatic shoots up a college campus, or a theater, or a grade school, the media blames the gun. Until we get that straightened out there is little hope for any meaningful legislation to be passed.
Selling to felons, and I think mentally ill, is ALREADY against the law. Although violations are not regularly prosecuted, believe it or not. If more guns laws were the solution to our "problem" we wouldn't even have a problem. We already have 22,000 (not a typo) federal state and local firearms regulations in this country. The Columbine shooters violated something like 20 different guns laws acquiring their weapons. Would a few more guns laws have stopped them? The CO theater shooter walked right into a "gun free zone". So called gun free zones don't work either.