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Homicides have dropped significantly since the Brady bill was passed? Impossible. Gun legislation doesn't work

Johnette's Daddy wrote:

crashcourse wrote:kill two birds with one stone

if your not allowed to vote in a federal election your not allowed to carry a gun
assimilate both

I am good with that.

I'm not. Although I own one. I guess illegally

Dr. Strangelove wrote:Homicides have dropped significantly since the Brady bill was passed? Impossible. Gun legislation doesn't work

The Brady Bill was a perfect example of the kind of absurdity produced by gun control enthusiasts. It banned "military style assault rifles." And what did it define as a "military style assault rifle?" How a rifle looked - whether or not it had a pistol grip, flash suppressor and a bayonet notch. As if those things had anything to do with lethality, which is semiautomatic fire capability, which most non-military style rifles also have, but we're not banned. But the Brady Bill made the gun control crowd "feel better" because they were "doing something" even though that "something" was completely irrelevant to the problem with they were supposedly trying to solve.

"But the Brady Bill made the gun control crowd "feel better" because they were "doing something" even though that "something" was completely irrelevant to the problem"

As a religious man, you should be well familiar with precisely that sort of feeling, with precisely the same level of concomitant irrelevancy of "effort"...

Professor Tiger wrote:The Brady Bill was a perfect example of the kind of absurdity produced by gun control enthusiasts. It banned "military style assault rifles." And what did it define as a "military style assault rifle?" How a rifle looked - whether or not it had a pistol grip, flash suppressor and a bayonet notch. As if those things had anything to do with lethality, which is semiautomatic fire capability, which most non-military style rifles also have, but we're not banned. But the Brady Bill made the gun control crowd "feel better" because they were "doing something" even though that "something" was completely irrelevant to the problem with they were supposedly trying to solve.

In May of 1994, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automatic assault guns." They cited a 1993 CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll that found that 77 percent of Americans supported a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of such weapons

The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, commonly called the federal Assault Weapons Ban, was enacted in September 1994. The ban, including a ban on high-capacity magazines, expired in September 2004 per a 10-year sunset provision.

Ah yes. Ronnie Ray-gun, noted gun control enthusiast.

The logic of the Brady Bill would appeal to Jimmy Carter and a president with Alzheimer's.

Outlawing that bayonet notch must have saved countless lives.

If the pistol grip were still illegal, none of these mass shootings would have happened.

If we don't bring back the flash suppressor, how can the cops find an active shooter in the dark?

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AND FURTHERMORE . . .

AlabamAlum wrote:I didn't see where it said they knew they flew on 9/11.

FWIW, David Frum, Bush's speechwriter, just admitted on Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC Show (Wednesday, 12/16/15) that the Bush White House allowed members of prominent Saudi families to fly home when the planes were supposed to be grounded because they feared reprisals and anti-Saudi backlash. It's not up on the website yet but you can check it out in a few hours http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word

JD, I see that the first cop to be tried in the Freddy Gray case just got a hung jury. I haven't seen much outrage from you or anywhere else in the media. Is that because the accused cop was black and the jury was majority black?

Uh-Oh

Professor Tiger wrote:The logic of the Brady Bill would appeal to Jimmy Carter and a president with Alzheimer's.

Outlawing that bayonet notch must have saved countless lives.

If the pistol grip were still illegal, none of these mass shootings would have happened.

If we don't bring back the flash suppressor, how can the cops find an active shooter in the dark?

::sigh:: Goof, the Brady Bill didn't have anything to do with any of that. It dealt with background checks and waiting periods for the purchase of handguns only. I let it go the first time you confused Brady with the AWB...maybe you shouldn't joke about Reagan's alzheimers - just sayin'.

Alzheimers runs in both my mother's and father's sides of my family. That's probably how I'll go.

Alzheimers runs in both my mother's and father's sides of my family. That's probably how I'll go.

Alzheimers runs in both my mother's and father's sides of my family. That's probably how I'll go.

I wish you would just.........................................................................forgot what I was going to say

What?

Baghdad Bob is at it again...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/obama-reassure ... d=35817946

GOP Debate: All We Have to Fear is Fear http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... story.html

I'm writing this column from underneath my bed because, based on what was said at Tuesday night's GOP presidential primary debate, America is a fiery hellscape and if so much as one fingertip slips out from under the bed it will immediately be shot off by terrorists.

It's dark under here and a bit cramped, but I'm hoping to communicate to you, my fellow Americans, and assure you that while everything is unprecedentedly scary right now, life will return to normal as soon as one of the candidates from that debate stage is elected president of whatever remains of the once-great but now very, very bad and scary and loser-filled United States of America

When your country is in a dangerous world, with nuclear weapons accruing to the "Death to America" crowd, the "contained" ISIS is shooting down superpowers' airliners, Russia is swallowing up your allies, and your feckless weakling Commander-in-Chief (footnote to Chris Christie) is obsessed with the weather and disarming his citizens, and your next CINC will be at least as feckless and weak and incompetent as her predecessor, but with vastly more corruption, then yes, hiding under your bed is a reasonable option.

I like peanut butter on my nipples

Professor Tiger wrote:When your country is in a dangerous world, with nuclear weapons accruing to the "Death to America" crowd, the "contained" ISIS is shooting down superpowers' airliners, Russia is swallowing up your allies, and your feckless weakling Commander-in-Chief (footnote to Chris Christie) is obsessed with the weather and disarming his citizens, and your next CINC will be at least as feckless and weak and incompetent as her predecessor, but with vastly more corruption, then yes, hiding under your bed is a reasonable option.

You've been hiding under a bed your whole life. It's what people like you do. And you consider it fortunate that you have so much company under there. Except you don't call it a bed, you call it "church"...

That's all you've got? No wonder 10ac and crash are surpassing you in wit and style.

You'll soon be smearing peanut butter on Rat's nipples.