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babylonsister

(171,082 posts) Sun Jun 2, 2013, 07:58 PM Jun 2013

This Ought to Be a National Scandal

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/6/2/154959/4458

This Ought to Be a National Scandal

by BooMan
Sun Jun 2nd, 2013 at 03:49:59 PM EST

Impressive. Nine people got shot in Philadelphia between late Friday night and late Saturday night. One fatality (so far) and one arrest. People are just getting lit up in the City of Brotherly Love. Overall, fifteen people have been shot so far this weekend. There was also another shooting on South Street near Society Hill, although no one seems to have been struck. Warm weather really seems to coincide with urban gun violence. I sure would have liked a bill that throws the book at straw purchasers. Background checks are nice, but these guns are flooding the cities and going into the hands of people who did not buy them at a licensed dealer or even a gun show. And the result is just an ongoing slaughter.

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This Ought to Be a National Scandal (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2013 OP

sounds like here in Chicago. mucifer Jun 2013 #1

It IS a National Scandal. elleng Jun 2013 #2

So much ought to be a national scandal matt819 Jun 2013 #3

How about just outlawing the private sale of handguns altogether? scarletwoman Jun 2013 #4

You could be shot for suggesting that. Kablooie Jun 2013 #5

No doubt by a hitman hired by the gun manufacturers. Their profits are more sacred than any life. scarletwoman Jun 2013 #6

No hyperbole here... cherokeeprogressive Jun 2013 #8

Nope. . .because the Gun Humpers and gundamentalists will deflect and say it isn't the gun Nanjing to Seoul Jun 2013 #7

Back in the '60's, there was a term for this: Brigid Jun 2013 #9

mucifer

(23,565 posts)

1. sounds like here in Chicago.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:02 PM

Jun 2013

elleng

(131,087 posts)

2. It IS a National Scandal.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:04 PM

Jun 2013

matt819

(10,749 posts)

3. So much ought to be a national scandal

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:25 PM

Jun 2013

My spouse and I talk about this all the time. Is it outrage paralysis? Is it the knowledge that our system is broken? No matter the source of the outrage, we seem incapable of dealing with it.

Take a look at the article in the NYT today re health care costs. More important, look at the comments. Thousands of comments, many observing that they are foregoing health care because of the costs. One guy wrote that he paid for health care for his son's birth conditions for 14 years.

We are broken.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

4. How about just outlawing the private sale of handguns altogether?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:30 PM

Jun 2013

I'm serious. Make it so that the only handguns that are allowed to be manufactured are those that are ordered by law enforcement agencies and the military.

If a private citizen feels that they need a handgun for personal protection they will need to apply directly to their local law enforcement agency for a permit, and the law enforcement agency (if they agree with the need) will then issue them a handgun which will be permanently numbered and registered. If this handgun ends up being used in the commission of a crime it will be readily traceable to the registered owner.

I don't see any other way to end handgun violence other than completely restricting their manufacture, making all private sales illegal, and making any private ownership strictly controlled.

No more cranking out unlimited numbers of handguns. Manufacturers will only be allowed to make them to order as law enforcement and miitary needs dictate. As long as unlimited numbers of handguns are manufactured and private sales are allowed, there will never be a way to control the flow of handguns into the hands of criminals. Choke off the supply at the source.

Kablooie

(18,641 posts)

5. You could be shot for suggesting that.

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:37 PM

Jun 2013

Unfortunately.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

6. No doubt by a hitman hired by the gun manufacturers. Their profits are more sacred than any life.

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 08:50 PM

Jun 2013

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)

8. No hyperbole here...

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 11:58 PM

Jun 2013

Nope. None.

Nanjing to Seoul

(2,088 posts)

7. Nope. . .because the Gun Humpers and gundamentalists will deflect and say it isn't the gun

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 11:55 PM

Jun 2013

And knives, cars, air conditioning, pitbulls, Nintendo and breathing causes more death than guns, so we should do things to outlaw them.

Because when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. And to stop a bad guy with a gun, you need a good guy with a gun.

Besides, it's only minorities getting shot. . .who cares? Now, when there is a massacre in a rich white area, wake m. . .wait? Newtown, Columbine, Aurora??? Affluent areas? Not rich enough. If it happens in some gated community or on Rodeo Drive, we'll care.

We are killing ourselves and not ONE politician CARES!!!

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

9. Back in the '60's, there was a term for this:

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 3, 2013, 12:05 AM

Jun 2013

"Long hot summer."

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