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In reply to the discussion: Questions the left won't discuss about gun control, but should - and soon. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)103. I agree with some of what you are talking about
        however I have to wonder if the the ten to fifteen percent is stolen or simply reported stolen.  How many people take the time to write down the serial number for possible police report?  Without that, it doesn't get entered in NCIC, or at least not that individual gun.
Straw purchases, we need to petition AG Lynch to instruct the US attorneys to pursue provable straw purchasing cases.  We might look at sentencing guidelines.  I don't think even Ted Nugent or Larry Pratt finds this acceptable anymore than Shannon Watts would.
There were 55 counts of strawman purchases intended to deliver guns to criminals on the street, each good for 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Instead of 550 years in prison and nearly $14 MILLION in fines, Judge Randa sentenced Mills to probation for putting dozens of guns into the hands of violent criminals.
http://bearingarms.com/need-gun-laws-judge-gives-strawman-seller-probation/
That shit is unacceptable. If the feds won't do it, then maybe states need to do it. All the bill would have to say is "violating this provision of the Gun Control Act is also a felony under state law".
Not only college, but also trade school. Not everyone is college material, and frankly not everyone wants to be.
I don't know about the football angle, since gangbangers don't give a shit about football. Kids need to ultimately learn that greed is not good and use microloans or whatever to help would be drug dealers to use their business skills, which are very good, to a business where they can contribute to the well being of the community instead of its destruction. Oh, and allow them to settle their disputes with lawyers with pens.
unlicensed street dealers: I don't know what we currently do when someone doing this is caught, but see above sentencing guidelines. 
 I don't know, but I don't see the ATF or the DoJ doing much in that area anymore than they do the straw purchasers.  That isn't entirely their fault, because the local cops would rather not mention it.
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                        Questions the left won't discuss about gun control, but should - and soon. [View all]
							EdwardBernays
							Oct 2015
							OP
                        
        
        sure but you would need to PROVE that your law would absolutely improve...
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Oct 2015
        #16
      
        
        Yup, Ireland's always been such a peacful, safe place with no violence to speak of
        DonP
        Oct 2015
        #75
      
        
        Your WaPo articles speaks to gun violence, not violence as a whole as GE was speaking.
        Nuclear Unicorn
        Oct 2015
        #54
      
        
        Welcome.  I will respond when I have time to consider your questions thoroughly...
        Eleanors38
        Oct 2015
        #19
      
        
        I would restrict concealed carry permits to trained professionals with a demonstrated need.
        Maedhros
        Oct 2015
        #27
      
        
        I wasn't suggesting that it was. I was simply pointing out that a carrying populace does not
        Kang Colby
        Oct 2015
        #34
      
        
        "Too bad no one but the two of us is reading it." Incorrect, unfortunately for the Stuart heir
        friendly_iconoclast
        Oct 2015
        #160
      
        
        I currently "live with" tens of thousands of alcohol-related deaths a year...
        Eleanors38
        Oct 2015
        #80
      
        
        I should have said that there are no mass killings in other countries like in the US.
        guillaumeb
        Oct 2015
        #104
      
        
        Let's see two threads today about people getting shot by reckless concealed carry
        upaloopa
        Oct 2015
        #127
      
  