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Blocking Gun Laws With Patents
New submitter robkeeney writes "Legislators in several states are working on laws that would require certain gun manufacturers to implement 'microstamping' to help law enforcement solve gun crimes. 'Lasers engrave a unique microscopic numeric code on the tip of a gun’s firing pin and breech face. When the gun is fired, the pressure transfers markings to the shell casing and the primer. By reading the code imprinted on casings found at a crime scene, police officers can identify the gun and track it to the purchaser, even when the weapon is not recovered.' As with any gun-related legislation, many people oppose these new laws. In California, a law passed in 2007 requires that when microstamping (which is easily defeat-able) is no longer patent encumbered, all new guns in CA must use it. To fight it, an organization called the Calguns Foundation paid a fee to extend the patent in order to prevent the law from going into effect."
Why banning all guns from a country is the best thing?
Now sit down a have a warm tea and I will tell you... (sitting all nice and comfy?)
Right... Long ago, there was a country called Norway, far away in the north of a continent called Yurp. The little kingdom was so unbelievably mild, that no one was allowed to have a gun. Not even the constabulary had a gun on them. They had one in their patrol vehicle, but they where only allowed to shoot if they had permission from the head of the constabularies. Only then! The living there was so mild, even the taste of rainwater was considered "spicy". That is how mindbogglingly mild life was there.
Then on a bad day, a big bad man came to an Island where there where a lot of treehugging communists prancing around. Mostly children because it was a merry little summer-camp you see? And he started shooting at the little prancers who fled with sheer despair in their eyes.
As the bad man was on his killing spree, there was no one who could stop him, because no one was allowed to have a gun. And they all obeyed the law, no guns allowed! So they had to wait until the constable arrived. The big bad man, lets call him Breivik, kept on shooting while the rest waited for the police to come or to get shot by Breivik. When the constable finally arrived, he saw that he should use gun. So, he called the chief to ask permission. In the mean while Breivik kept shooting. He killed 77 people in total. Now, that is about 7 times as many children as in your soccer-team. That is a LOT huh?
After a while the constable got permission, and stopped the bad man.
Now, that is why getting... rid...
of...
all...
Well you get the point I guess? Now of to bed! Look at the time!
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Liberal gun-grabbers are nothing more than prostitutes working for the bankster criminal class, making the entire world safe for their criminal enterprises. It has been said that liberals are merely conservatives who have not yet been the victims of one criminal class or another, including especially the banksters.
You aren't trolling for someone of the criminal class who might be armed, in order to deal with a nasty ex-wife and her boyfriend divorce lawyer, are you? Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
Right... because government assassinations happen so often they don't even make the news... oh wait, there's a huge debate happening just about giving the elected leader of the people the power to order the assassinations of accused war criminals !
More-over the vast majority of times when people DO go into a blind killing rage they do so with LEGAL guns and America has a disproportionately high number of such incidents...
In fact, the vast majority of gundeaths are accidental or suicides and most of them are caused by legal guns. The amount actually used for crimes by criminals is relatively minor. Only for that tiny minority is there a majority use of illegal weapons.
So I guess, if both groups did the maths - then the gun-nuts (and you) suck at doing maths.
That said- your conclusion is simply false. It's also true that a massively disproportionate percentage of American gun law supporters are white, among other races gun-control is much more highly supported.
The real group of people wanting to own lots of guns are the racists assholes who are afraid of everybody that doesn't look like them.
This is a perfectly understandable thing too - goes back to our early evolution. As apes, you could identify threats by visual cues. A lion-shaped thing meant "danger will robinson" - and lead to a fight or flight response. ... er... stupid, especially as the number of such incidents happening at all (by anybody to anybody) has been going down world wide for a century and is now one of the least likely ways to die.
But we live in a different world now, you can NOT identify threats by visual cues anymore. 9/10 violent crimes are committed by somebody you know and trust. So worrying about some black guy with a gun holding you up is
The ones that still do happen, are almost all done by your neighbour, or your ex-boyfriend - not by some black guy from another part of town - or most likely of all - yourself. Gun suicides make up over 70% of all gun-related deaths world-wide (not sure how it looks specifically in the USA - but I seem to recall reading ones that it's higher than the global average)
So they don't trust their fellow citizens at all - if they did they would realize that their fellow citizens aren't a risk - and they don't NEED guns to protect themselves from their fellow citizens(what the hell do you think a criminal is if not a fellow citizen ?) they would be better off preventing the few who are likely to go postal from getting to go postal with a gun in their hands, the even tinier percentage who engage in violent crime for a living would actually be REDUCED if they stopped robbing houses to steal guns...
Yeah, owning a gun makes it MORE likely you'll be robbed because a gun is a very valuable thing to steal.
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