On the Subject of Today's Shooting

[i_17bingo]

I don't want to get shot dead, at random, in a parking lot, or at a movie theater, or in church, or in a mall, or at a school, or anywhere for that matter, by someone who just wants to shoot bullets at a lot of people for reasons that have nothing at all to do with me. Off the top of my head, I can think of more than two dozen people who felt this

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[basric]

I oqn guns, I have a permit to carry. This is for target shooting enjoyment and protection working late shifts.

You can outlaw guns and confiscate every registered gun in the US, but if a criminal wants a gun he doesn't go to the local gun store to buy it, steal it but not buy it.

Stronger sentences for crimes involving guns, three strike laws these are what the public needs to be clamoring for.

What happened today could it have been prevented by gun laws. No. A crazy is going to find a way. And they are always such cowards as to kill themselves instead of facing what they have done.

I do believe internet rifle and gun part buying should be stopped and someone should be at gun shows to record gun sales.

My heart goes out to those parents who will be mourning Christmas day rather than celebrating.

[hosticle_fifer]

I generally agree with this sentiment. The situation has made me just sick, especially as a parent and a responsible gun owner who keeps his guns in a locker and out of reach.

I did want to throw out there that there is a lot of misinformation swirling around about gun shows. There's no loophole. You need to pass the same background check at a gun show that you do at a store.

I also don't think restricting the online purchase of gun parts is going in the right direction. If it's a receiver (aka, the legal "body" of the gun), then it's shipped to a FFL dealer and background checks are run. Otherwise it's all just optics and plastic and replacement parts.

[basric]

In Nashville at a gun show I bought a 38 paid and walked out with it. It was my responsibility to file with the police registry.

I'll give you the internet as I really don't know but what I see on TV & in the movies and I read. You seem more credible so I'll go with you.

[hosticle_fifer]

Huh. Maybe Tennessee laws are different? I thought the NICS check was national, though. I would have called what you just described "heavily illegal".

You certainly can't do that in PA, and I thought you couldn't nationwide. Oddly, there is further no need to file anything with any police registry, as there is no firearm registration system in the States. So I officially don't know what's going on there.

[yachiru]

>_> I started arguing with some fellow on fb today about the probablity of being shot being less in the UK. I can count on one hand the number of times I've read about school shootings or spree killings happening in England. That's less than I've read about this year in the US. This year. Makes you want to build a fort under your house and live there with your stuffed animal family.

[i_17bingo]

Are the stuffed animals made of Kevlar?

[yachiru]

They're flammable, of course. All the fluffiest toys are.

[i_17bingo]

So you light them and throw them at your attacker. The cutest Malatov cocktails!