Six months and what has been done?

bobabode · #1 06-08-2013, 10:59 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...y.html?hpid=z2

Nothing has been done since Newtown. I used to think we were better than that.

BlueStreak · #2 06-09-2013, 12:53 AM

No. We're not.

In a thread on AK a couple weeks ago, I made the comment that "....I don't own any guns, they just aren't my thing." The response I got from foreign members was interesting. They seemed relieved to know that there was still at least one ".....sane person left in America.", as one man from England put it.

Make of that what you will.....'cuz you will anyways.

Dave

bobabode · #3 06-09-2013, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

No. We're not.

In a thread on AK a couple weeks ago, I made the comment that "....I don't own any guns, they just aren't my thing." The response I got from foreign members was interesting. They seemed relieved to know that there was still at least one ".....sane person left in America.", as one man from England put it.

Make of that what you will.....'cuz you will anyways.

Dave

I saw that one. He was pounced on by someone who shall remain nameless with a reference to them still having meat cleavers and knives and another from Arizona who had a choice view that out of staters were ruining his state. I stayed out of it.

JJIII · #4 06-10-2013, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

I saw that one. He was pounced on by someone who shall remain nameless with a reference to them still having meat cleavers and knives and another from Arizona who had a choice view that out of staters were ruining his state. I stayed out of it.

I'll claim the cleavers and knives comment.

Thanks for your concern though.

BlueStreak · #5 06-09-2013, 01:36 AM

I think that's where I left it. I started the thread about a true life incident, with the intention of making it somewhat humorous. Someone asked me if I was packing. That's how I answered and the shit-storm started swirling immediately.

Imagine it, Bob. As it turned out the incident was nothing. Quickly defused and everyone went home alive. How many of those dudes responded that they would have fired or at least stuck a gun in the mans face? And, for what? Walking his dog at night? For being in the bushes? What was he doing there? I dunno. Maybe the dog had to pee and got picky about which bush was the best to pee on? And, I was supposed to shoot the guy over that?

Crazy. Just plain crazy.

Dave

merrylander · #6 06-09-2013, 06:57 AM

Sadly this nation was born in violence and it has not changed. Hollywood glorified the Wild West along with several novelists.

MikeG22 · #7 06-09-2013, 09:10 AM

Honestly what is really going to be done that will somehow give everyone who puts their 5yr old on a bus that confident everything will always be bright blue skies and rainbows feeling. Let's ban all firearms and lock up all mentally deranged individuals. Still isn't going to bring back those kids.

finnbow · #8 06-09-2013, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeG22

Honestly what is really going to be done that will somehow give everyone who puts their 5yr old on a bus that confident everything will always be bright blue skies and rainbows feeling. Let's ban all firearms and lock up all mentally deranged individuals. Still isn't going to bring back those kids.

No shit, Sherlock. The point of improved gun safety laws is not to bring the dead back to life, but to reduce the likelihood and severity of gun crimes in the future.

MikeG22 · #9 06-09-2013, 09:56 AM

Blame the right for the laws not passing and nothing been done for six months. Ignore the fact that the laws were filled with BS and earmarks which was the biggest reason it was voted down. Leave the millions of dollars in earmarks off and it probably would have passed.

finnbow · #10 06-09-2013, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeG22

Blame the right for the laws not passing and nothing been done for six months. Ignore the fact that the laws were filled with BS and earmarks which was the biggest reason it was voted down. Leave the millions of dollars in earmarks off and it probably would have passed.

Not exactly. It was not passed due to lawmaker fear of the NRA. Any discussion of earmarks was an excuse by lawmakers to infer that they weren't cowed by the NRA.