(a) Anyone interested in this thread should review the FOX NEWS interview with Justice Scalia of last Sunday (7/29). He has no problems with legal restraint on the types of weapons that citizens may own.
(b) IMHO, anyone who gets fired up about "assault weapons" is a little slow on the uptake. Since automatic weapons are already prohibited, "assault weapons" are nothing more than rifles that look scary. They are no more dangerous than a good deer rifle.
(c) No recent proposal regarding control of distribution of firearms would have had any effect on the events in Aurora last week. A crazy fucker with enough intelligence to be in a PhD program in neuroscience - and no history of violence - would have no trouble arming himself regardless of what the laws were. Shit, how many hundred million guns are in circulation now?
(d) the best we will ever do to control gun violence is (1) keep known felons from buying guns legally, and (2) impose more severe prison sentences on people who commit crimes with firearms. And most states are doing that already.
The occasional killing is the price we pay for wanting to live in a "free" society. Gun-crimes are not much of a problem in North Korea or Cuba.
This is done because of the government, not because of a civilian gone wild.The occasional killing is the price we pay for wanting to live in a "free" society. Gun-crimes are not much of a problem in North Korea or Cuba.