Yet Another Example Of Why Greater Gun Control Is Needed

[Uncensored2008]

Yesterday, a man in Las Vegas shot and killed a patron at Starbucks because he got mad that his credit card was declined. He had a criminal history and should not have been in possession of a gun. Yet, he had a gun, thanks to how EASY it is to get one, especially in Nevada.

Police: Suspect's bank card was declined at Starbucks drive-thru before deadly attack

So anti-gun laws didn't stop him, proving to you that more anti-gun laws are needed, since they don't stop anyone...

Yer not real bright, are you?

 

[Uncensored2008]

And they'll be arrested for doing so under new gun control laws. Hopefully.

Why wouldn't they be under the old gun control law?

They are already breaking the law.

 

[MikeK]

Yesterday, a man in Las Vegas shot and killed a patron at Starbucks because he got mad that his credit card was declined. He had a criminal history and should not have been in possession of a gun. Yet, he had a gun, thanks to how EASY it is to get one, especially in Nevada.

Police: Suspect's bank card was declined at Starbucks drive-thru before deadly attack

Alcohol Prohibtion showed how impossible it is to deprive the public of something they want bad enough to pay a bootlegger's price to obtain. That is why Prohibition was repealed.

Now we have the War On Drugs. And in spite of the fact that that this drug prohibition is every bit as useless and counterproductive as alcohol Prohibition it continues to waste taxpayer money and create a Law Enforcement Industrial Complex -- while any type of drug one wishes to buy remains as available today as when the drug war was started.

But you want to make it harder to obtain guns. How do you propose to do that? If you make it harder to get guns legally all that will achieve is to boost the price of illegal guns -- which was the effect of alcohol Prohibition, is the effect of the drug war, and will be the effect of any kind of new gun restrictions you wish to impose.

If someone in a free society wishes to buy something which is prohibited and is willing to pay an inflated price for it, the black market will accommodate him. It always has and it always will. And the only way to prevent it is by creating a totalitarian police state with random searches of persons and premises.

 

[9thIDdoc]

And it remains unconstitutional (illegal) for the government to deliberately make it hard for the average law-abiding American to buy guns.
"...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The government simply does not have the authority to do so and the attempt would be an act of tyranny. I take a dim view of people who advocate tyranny.