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Ohio Wants eBayers to Post $50k Bond
MacDork writes "CNNMoney posted a short article this morning about new Ohio regulations set to become effective May 2 this year. If you are in the state and selling on eBay, you will need to pay $200 for a license and post a $50,000 bond or face possible fines and jail time. Getting the license also requires a one-year apprenticeship. When asked to which eBay users this bill applied, the bill's author, Larry Mumper responded with these very specific guidelines.... "It certainly will not apply to the casual seller on eBay, but might apply to anyone who sells a lot.""
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So self-defense is not a legitimate use of a handgun? I guess that is why 30+ states allow their citizens to carry handguns for self-defense.
This line of thinking is wrong at so many levels, but this isn't the time or place.
If you think gun control isn't stupid, you obviously are from the city. Out in the real world there are uses for them other than drive-by shootings, hold-ups, and playing real life GTA. There are enough laws on the books. They just don't enforce the ones they have. So yes...gun control laws have gotten so out of hand that anyone should be able to see they are just as stupid as this law. Nobody needs an oozie or bazooka....but then that was in the first batch of laws.
I take it you're an expert on Amsterdam and Heroin then ?
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His insights are correct. And his insights on guns are correct as well.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
not an expert. I met a man with a needle who asked me to hold it for a minute, while he had to do something. I said um no I'm just a tourist. He said ok. And then we parted ways.
In singapore he would have hung, but it's decriminalised over there apparently.
bcmm == head up ass.
The gun control mention was on topic as an example of existing legislation being more than capable of prosecuting criminals who commit crimes with guns. Much like existing fraud laws being capable of punishing ebay scammers. So do you plan to seize every gun in the US? And do you plan on stopping them from coming in Mexico and Canada? Otherwise your glib "If no one has guns, no one gets to shoot people." becomes
If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws have guns.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
I'm just saying this isn't news. You don't see articles on slashdot when states start licensing daycares?! So why is this article here? It's simply not news.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Mumper is also the jerk who is responsible for the so called "Academic Bill or Rights" and has called college professors communists. What a jerk.
Wow; no-one goes around accusing their enemies of being communists any more. You accuse them of being TERRORISTS nowadays.
I bet that guy is still worrying about the threat from hippies and free love.
Marijuana and (I think) some forms of mushrooms are fine.
Yes, but untill you stop all production of guns and remove every single gun from this country, and stop all guns at the border, you will have guns in the hands of criminals.
my mistake. If they did tax it, sell licences to deal, imagine the money they'd make.
How is this a good thing?
There will be less guns on the street. That is always a good thing.
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If I had mod points right now I would mod you (Funny as All Hell, if a bit scary)
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
Oh: and don't forget baseball bats, kitchen knives, etc. There are all sorts of people out there "intending to break the law" with those tools, too.
I'm not taking issue with what else you said, but keep in mind that baseball bats are made for hitting baseballs, kitchen knives are made for preparing food and occasionally opening envelopes, and guns are made for moving little pieces of metal very fast into people. They're also used as a deterrent, but the threat is always that those little pieces of metal can run faster than you.
Baseball bats, of course, are highly multi-functional devices. They're just sticks, after all. And knives? Very multi-function as well, and are just sticks with sharp metal for one end. And they've been around since, oh, the bronze age. Guns, on the other hand, are complicated devices of recent invention. They have no real purpose other than shooting bullets; they weren't designed on the concept of a stick, they were designed on the concept of shooting people. Guns are fundamentally different from the other items you mentioned, which is why they're treated differently.
His insights are correct. And his insights on guns are correct as well.
Educate yourself. The statistics speak for themselves. The fact is gun control works, in many, many countries throughout the world.
If you don't believe the numbers in the article, just do a Google search yourself. You'll find plenty of "official" sources that list the exact same numbers.
Burning massive karma here, but it boggles my mind how people can plainly ignore or dispute facts that are right there in front of them.
Or are his insights into the world being flat correct as well?
And you say that reducing by 20% gun crime is not something that could be interesting to do ?
You're claiming that this would -reduce- gun crime.
In practice, it might mean that those who kept their firearms might feel safer threatening those who hadn't. In addition, firearms usually provide one sort of means, not a motive; if you're killed by poison or knife, you're still just as dead.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
I don't know what retard modded my comment as "flamebait". I was just asking how is it a bad thing that honest citizens would not have guns.
Can't we ask questions anymore on slashdot without some -nazis modding everything down because they don't agree?...
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