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Not all rights are absolute. It's up to SCOTUS balance one person's rights against another. - We have freedom of the press, but we also have obscenity laws - We have the 2a, but felons are not permitted to buy guns

So the crazy knows he only has to cap this one guard and he's done. Create a distraction like a car accident in the parking lot and take him out first. How sickening that we have to think like this to keep our kids safe...

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If you're not a facebook friend of mine, then you missed this... Here ya go. Just spent 30 minutes on this: The conversation on gun availability is under way. In this post I will endeavor to alienate every single human in the world in one way or another. 1) We HAVE to have mental health involved in some way in the gun purchasing process . That will have to fall somewhere between the extremes of everyone having to submit a doctor's note saying you are "sane", all the way down to mental health professions being required to report "dangerous" people to the govt... I dunno where that will fall, but we have to start trying to prevent dangerous people buying guns. In the UK there is a mental evaluation process for licensing. 2) NICS checks on private purchases is on the table, and I'm all for it. Responsible gun owners already keep good records and verify buyers - this will be nothing different. The exact mechanism will have to be decided. 3) Banning high capacity magazines is a feel-good measure. It may pass but will have no effect. a 30 round mag can be emptied in a few seconds, a mag can be changed in a few seconds. It will have no appreciable difference in the rate of fire. 4) Expanding CCW rights will help. These cowards pick soft targets that are not defended and effective resistance is the only thing that will stop them. That is why they shoot themselves once the police arrive, or an armed citizen intervenes. There is a good reason these crazies shoot up soft targets, not police stations etc. They may be crazy but they're not stupid. They'd get their asses shot off in three seconds flat and they know it. They know that they can shoot up a school and meet zero effective resistance. 5) Arming teachers is an interesting suggestion that is "just crazy enough to work". I'd go for an "air marshal" system where teachers who wish to can be trained to police standards and have to regularly recertify. They would undergo background checks / polygraphs and other safeguards that would allow us to trust them as we trust police officers. You can't MAKE people carry guns. That's a personal choice. 6) Mandatory safe storage laws are likely to come this way. Responsible gun owners already do this, especially if there are kids in the household. If my gun is not in my holster is is in a safe, NO EXCEPTIONS. We hear too many stories of kids finding guns - who are the morons leaving loaded guns around kids? These safe storage laws should NOT force the guns to be stored unloaded. We, as a country, recognize our law abiding citizens have a right to self defense. If we get safe storage laws they must allow for home defense weapons to be stored ready to go. None of this UK-style "ammo in a different safe" bullshit which is ideally suited to UK-style disdain for self defense. 7) None of this will stop school massacres. It will just make the crazies use a different weapon. Meat cleaver, bomb, samurai sword, sarin gas, whatever. 8) Locking the school doors during the day is a great idea. My son explained his school's lockdown process and it's great. I hope the schools don't forget to think like a crazy person and ask themselves; "How else do I get to them?" They need to protect the playground too. (back to point 5) 9) School massacres are not unique to the US. They are not unique to guns. They are not unique to men, or white people, or any other single predictable factor other than balls-out batshit crazy. The difference here is that our right to own guns is abused by the crazies. We must preserve our right to own guns while looking for effective solutions to stop the crazies rather than feel-good measure that make people THINK they are doing something worthwhile but are not really. This will require compromises on both sides, but will also require a better understanding of the root of the problem and that will only come with a frank and open forum, effective communication and, where needed, compromise. I don't want to hear "out of my cold dead hands" or "thin end of the wedge", nor do I want to hear "why do you need a XYZ gun?" or "So it's ok of kids to die then?" We all have our well-rehearsed rhetoric and snappy comebacks. Keep that crap to yourselves. I want to hear real, effective, workable solutions. 10) This is not about "assault weapons" or calibers or magazine capacity or anything like that. Virginia Tech was carried out with handguns and had a higher death toll. The caliber most likely to be used in a murder is .22 so talk about banning large caliber or assault weapons is not the answer. I think I'm about done, now that the gun rights and gun control advocates alike hate me. Now to watch my friend counter drop like Romney's poll numbers after the 47% comment...

Ordered a bunch of tacticool crap and mags for mine. Was hoping the prices at the next cols gun show won't be nuts, might pick up another pre-ban.

I think it's time for media organizations (music, Hollywood etc) to take a stand too.

Next question - Are the people gonna put their money where their heart is and approve tax levies to pay for these extra cops?

You have to prove intention to the jury. How would you convince a lay person?

Gotcha. Had both in the past, both expired.

Our local career center has Volunteer Firefighter and "EMS Refresher/First Responder" for under $400 each, then they have EMS Basic bu that's about $1k. For someone like me that won't be seeking out emergency scenes but wants be useful until the EMS/Police/Fire dept arrive, would the EMS Refresher/First Responder course be the right one?

Nope. I blindly believe everything on snopes. All hail snopes.

Where would one get First Responder training?

I could do zanesville.

It's only illegal if it's designed to convey controlled substances. I have a hidden compartment in my car that I use to store the camera gear, theft tracker and other electronics. None of the gear is illegal.

The mere fact a felon tried to buy a gun is a crime in and of itself. If he admits to trying a buy a gun and lying on the NICS form there's a few crimes he could be charged with.

I was anticipating it taking longer verify.

That was quick: Massad Ayoob ‏@MassadAyoob AGAINST MONSTERS http://ht.ly/g7IhD

Don't forget the Morgan Freeman thing... Need an original cite before we believe this.

It would bring police attention to a prohibited person trying get a gun...

And again... http://www.ksat.com/news/Man-charged-in-shooting-at-San-Antonio-movie-theater/-/478452/17800466/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/vnl74fz/-/index.html?hpt=ju_bn5

If a felon tries to buy a gun, how KNOWS he's a felon and the police should go figure out why he's trying to buy it. If he put on the form that he's not a felon, then he should be charged with that.

Just enough snow to build a snowman and have a snowball fight on xmas day - then back to the mid-50s until bike season, pls. Thanks.

I wonder what the cost would be to arrange a follow-up visit with the denied folks. If you're gonna fail a NICS check you pretty much have to know already, right? That's what all the questions on the for are for. If someone lies on the form they should be charged for that. If someone honestly didn't know they were deniable then fair enough, but now you know... Maybe we just do that for felons and nutcases?

What happens if you fail a NICS check? Follow-up visit from the police? Nothing?