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In reply to the discussion: I have a question you guys can answer [View all]Warpy
(111,669 posts)28. The hope is that closing the gun show and private sale loopholes
will slow the bad guys down. It won't stop all of them and nobody has the illusion that it will. However, as long as those loopholes exist, the pipeline to the bad guys is wide open.
Stolen guns on the black market aren't cheap since they can't be traced. It's cheaper to go to a gun show for that Saturday Night Special.
Remember, no gun control advocate is crazy enough to think we can stop gun crime in this country. The guns are out there and the carnage is going to continue. All we hope is that sensible measures that don't infringe on the right of sensible people to own firearms will slow it down, given enough time.
You know, like that first AWB did.
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So you agree that registration is irrelevant when addressing criminals owning guns?
hack89
Apr 2013
#16
If frogs would suddenly grow wings so they wouldn't bump their butts on landing,........
rdharma
Apr 2013
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