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Post by Ryan Thames on Apr 21, 2007 23:57:27 GMT -5
While i agree noone has the right to take away our right to bear arms. I do feel there should be a waiting period and citizenship check before selling someone a gun, or anytype of weapon for that matter
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Post by STEVE PHIPPS on May 9, 2007 17:21:48 GMT -5
Saw a bumper sticker today..." Guns kill people the same way forks may Rosie O'Dodonall fat!"
Made me smile..having grown up on a farm and always using a rifle as a tool to protect the cattle.
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Post by Trenton Meyer on May 22, 2007 2:43:57 GMT -5
AMEN STEVE, AMEN
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Post by Karen Bean on May 22, 2007 6:23:42 GMT -5
While i agree noone has the right to take away our right to bear arms. I do feel there should be a waiting period and citizenship check before selling someone a gun, or anytype of weapon for that matter Ryan I have purchased a number of guns through the years, some for myself and some for Frank as gifts, and each and every time, a check has been done. I have had to fill out forms supplying my drivers license as well as a social security number. Granted I have not had to go through a waiting period but I have had to wait in the store a couple of times for about an hour when background checks were being run. A citizenship check is run, thus the need for the social security check. Now granted, people buy fake social security cards every day, so a non citizen "could" purchase a gun. Guns, IMO, are no different than a number of other things that are legal in this country that kill. Alcohol kills every single day, multiple times per day, but no one is screaming to take away the booze. Granted alcohol isn't going to kill a mass number of people such as the recent school shootings unless a driver causes a multiple car pile up but it kills on a regular basis. Drugs kill every single day, multiple times per day, but no one is screaming to take away the drugs. Oh yes we all hear the same rhetoric we've heard since the drugs first came into the public eye back in the 60's - the war on drugs. The war that is truthfully non existent. Alcohol and drugs put way too much money into our economy which make them beneficial. As a result, we'll never see prohibition again and we'll certainly never see our country without drugs. But, no one beats the drum to get rid of them. We need to point the finger at the real problem. People. People are the problem. Not the booze and the drugs and the guns. There are far more responsible people that use all the above and hurt absolutely no one than there are others. |
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Post by Chris Gangi on May 22, 2007 12:21:27 GMT -5
I have also bought many guns over the years......about 15 years ago I obtained my permit to carry a firearm which also allowed me to buy a gun without having to wait for a backround check to run (which use to take about a week) but you still have fill a whole lot of paperwork.
the problem with guns in this country has nothing to do with the honest citizen who buy and registers there guns legally, it is the illegal sales of guns and that is where our government should focus all the attention on.....NOT US honest citizens
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