JoeB131
Diamond Member
No...dipshit...that would be like saying we had one plane crash so now we have to end flying forever.......you idiot.
Actually, we can't get buy without flying.... we can do just fine without guns. Most countries do.
So you paid good money for a bad education . . . My condolences.
The "university" that gave you your degrees teaches a religion more brain-rotting and faith-based than any Bunghole Baptist U.
Actually, I was pretty conservative in College, but that was before the gun fetishists, religious zealots and libertarian whackos took over the GOP.... You know, when they were actually still sane.
Um...no, sorry, buddy, we live in an insanity perpetrated by the National Rifle Association against the wishes of the American people... and if people knew how lax our gun laws actually are.... they'd be really upset.I understand it can be disorienting when you learn the force that destroyed your beliefs came from inside your house, instead of that evil house up on Gun Lobby Hill.
Before 1967, federal gun law was virtually non-existent and the laws that did exist were very narrow and targeted on actual criminals. There wasn't any reason for Republicans or even the NRA to be rigid and unbending "gun control" opponents because the leadership then was under the delusion that there wasn't a growing movement inside federal Democrats to ban all guns.
Before 1967, you didn't have Saturday night specials and AR-15's on the civilian market, either.
Heck, there's a reason why the Gunfight at the OK Corral is remembered... because guns were contolled and limited in the 19th century, and a gun fight where law enforcement had to shoot three men was an oddity.
An awakening did occur in the 1970's
Uh, that's my point. That's when the Gun Industry realized that people weren't hunting anymore, and they had to find a new way to get guns on the market. That's when they started marketing guns like the Saturday Night Special that NO ONE but a criminal would need.
It's not surprising Chicago and other Illinois cities passed handgun bans in short order. And none of those laws implicated the 2nd Amendment until 2010 when SCOTUS incorporated the 2ndA under the 14thA in McDonald v Chicago.
Parading around state gun laws passed before 2010 as having anything to say about what the 2nd Amendment is or does, is just stupid.
Naw, man, what happened after 2010 was the stupid part... and gun murders have spiked.. I think we hit a new record last year.