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Poquito Loco

On Wed, 21 May 2014 16:00:34 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:48:22 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2014 11:17:35 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:00:46 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2014 12:45:51 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Sensible gun control laws will never be written. We'll just keep
having more incidents like Cafe Racer where innocents are gunned down
by "lawful gun owners," ...until they're not.

Sensible gun control laws are all over the books. Look at Chicago and tell me how well they're
enforced.

I do find it amusing that guys like JPS rail on for years about the
handful of "lawful gun owners" who shoot someone but are strangely
silent about the 11,000 illegal gun owners who kill people every year.
Then he blames it on the lack of more gun laws.

I suppose the government could just ban guns. That worked so well on
drugs.
Hell, why don't we just pass a law that makes murder illegal ...
problem solved.

11,000 illegal gun owners who kill people. Cite please.

Guns being sold in massive quantities without controlled distribution
and stuipd owners who do not lock them up is half the reason why it's
so easy for criminals to get their hands on a gun.

Most of them are stolen from "legal gun owners" from what I
understand.

Your 'understanding' is bull****. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics firearms possessed
by prison inmates at the time of offense only about 9.1% in 1994 and 7.5% in 2004 were acquired from
theft or burglary. That's a far cry from your 'most' claim. Next tell me that prison inmates aren't
representative of the population committing murders. In 2004 more than 25% of the firearms acquired
by these folks came from drug dealers or others on 'the street'.

Be sure and pass on to your buddy, Krause the gun nut in BAO's opinion, that in both years less than
1% of those folks acquired their guns from gun shows.

Do you ever feel like you're just full of ****?

I guess the open question is where the drug dealers and other people
"on the street" got them.
I have no problem believing most of the illegal guns on the street
were stolen at one point and maybe more than once.
A lot of these thefts are never reported for various reasons. It
certainly would not be reported if the person having the gun stolen
was not supposed to have it in the first place (that is just about
anyone in Chicago, New York or DC, even if it was in the family for
decades).

I agree that most are probably stolen...from folks who've just been shot or other druggies.
Actually, I think I heard somewhere that those guns have been stolen about '6 times' more often than
not. ;)