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Dan White beat the murder charge, invoking the (in)famous “Twinkie Defense.” But life wasn’t so good for him after that …</p>
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Um, no. My local gun dealer has his FFL suspended till about mid December. You can’t handle any firearm that is for sale. Contact Anthony’s Arms, Pittsburgh, if you want confirmation. You don’t need a FFL to run a handgun range, so that is a moot point.</p>
<p>[qoute]Before you all get too smug and self-righteous about Dianne Feinstein you might stop to take note of the fact that her political career was launched 1978 when she became Mayor of San Francisco by operation of law after a Republican politician smuggled a pistol into City Hall and murdered the elected Mayor and a County supervisor. That kind of thing will color your views towards firearms.
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<p>No, it colors my views towards firearms. The gun didn’t sneak itself into city hall. Do you have a colored view of blunt objects, or rope, or fire because BTK, Ted Bundy, or arsonists use them? How about cars because they are used in hit and runs or drive-by’s. How about fertilizer because that caused the largest school massacre in US history (no, not V-Tech…the Bath school massacre, in 1928, when you could buy a full auto Thompson off the shelves…).</p>
<p>I have said it before, and I’ll say it again. You can’t erect a logical and reasoned argument for more gun restrictions/control. Cheers.</p>
<p>Wanna keep playing this game?</p>
<p>This is a thread about a childs death. An entirely preventable death. Yet we have this incredible statement, “you can’t erect a logical and reasoned arguement for more gun restrictions/control.” </p>
<p>This is not a game. Neither the problem nor the discussion. </p>
<p>As a gun owner, my problem is not with laws that come from incidents like this, it’s with the people who are so careless with firearms that laws like this become needed. This is the reason why I do not support the NRA. The very idea that a law preventing children from handling an uzi would infringe on my rights is absurd.</p>
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It is. Argument is spelled wrong.</p>
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<p>Pick a side.</p>
<p>^We don’t need any more gun laws on the books. How about enforcing some of the existing ones? Again, this is a tragic incident. But I don’t see anyone from suggesting a law that a child can’t swim in a pool, etc…?! More children die from drowning, falling from heights, fires, eaten by yetis, etc, than from negligent discharges.</p>
<p>…“I’d say there ought to be MORE common sense and FEWER laws.”</p>
<p>true, Consolation…but unfortunately you can’t legislate common sense!</p>
<p>The dead kid’s father is the medical director of emergency and critical care at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford, CT. As an ER doctor he knows, more vividly than most people, what irresponsible gun handling can do, yet he permitted an eight year old to fire a loaded submachine gun. I think the boy’s father is entirely responsible for his son’s death and should be held accountable as if he had pulled the trigger himself.</p>
<p>I am a gun owner and I do not support the NRA. If you cannot wrap your brain around that then that is your problem.</p>
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<p>Do you support the 2A? I worded my sentence a bit too harshly before.</p>
<p>Update – The Gun Club and three men have now been charged with manslaughter.</p>
<p>[Police</a> Chief, Gun Club Indicted In Boy’s Uzi Death – Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/community/news/ec/hcu-bizilj-1204,0,2547967.story]Police”>http://www.courant.com/community/news/ec/hcu-bizilj-1204,0,2547967.story)</p>
<p>There’s already a separate thread on this new development - we should stick to using that one so there aren’t two simultaneous threads about the same thing…</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/609524-police-chief-indicted-after-boy-killed-uzi.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/609524-police-chief-indicted-after-boy-killed-uzi.html</a></p>
<p>Good. Idiots like these shed bad light on gun owners.</p>