Globe Column on One Gun a Month

[jcr]

From the article:

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced 1,000 of the illegal guns recovered from criminals and crime scenes in Massachusetts last year and found that more than a third were originally bought — legally — right here.

This almost sounds like it is worthy of refuting -- it is not.

The phrase "llegal guns recovered from criminals and crime scenes" is a pure construct of Abraham. All the ATF does is trace guns whose serial numbers are called in by police departments. The ATF does not categorize them as anything but traced guns.

We know that 209A are often issued for questionable motives. They certainly are issued before there is any conviction of crimes. The police collect the guns of the 209A target. They may call the ATF for traces on those guns they have collected. I would assume that most of such traced guns were "originally bought — legally — right here."

So, how many of the the alarmingly sounding "more than a third" had anything to do with "criminals and crime scenes"?

 

[OnTheRoad]

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced 1,000 of the illegal guns recovered from criminals and crime scenes in Massachusetts last year and found that more than a third were originally bought — legally — right here.

Wow. Nice piece of completely irrelevant fluff. How many were used illegally by the original purchaser? I'd be willing to bet that over 90% of getaway cars that are used in bank robberies were originally bought - legally - by someone.

The underlying point us that they were bought legally. They were eventually used illegally. If you want to solve the problems, the unlawful USE needs to be addressed, not the lawful purchase and possession.

 

[Turbocharged]

This is one of the comments someone wrote:

I think I'll join GOAL today

I think this article might actually be of use, as it exposes the extremist mentality of the supporters of this bill.

 

[JackDaniels]

It is amazing when you see the majority of comments that appear on EVERY story about H.4102 as being against the bill, no matter the website, Globe, WBZ, etc.. All of them have had about 98% against the bill and yet our legislators ignore us.

Money talks, bullshit walks. You're not being represented. Your vote doesn't matter. There are things happening that are beyond what the republic is capable of doing, in terms of righting itself through democracy. Your right to vote is but a diversion. The question is, then, what can be done to right the republic.

 

[Batbox]

"Will it really kill legal gun owners if we restrict them to one gun purchase a month? It may kill children if we don’t."

this reads like a joke. it's getting hard to tell the difference between parody and real anti-self-defense rhetoric.

 

[JimB]

She disagree`s? She doesn`t even know what the hell she`s talking about. It still amazes me how educated liberals are so stupid.

this woman is an idiot

 

[Pilgrim]

if voting would really change anything, it would be made illegal.

 

[glockstones]

I think it makes for an awesome 10 mins or so skimming through the comments on these articles and reading some of the good ones but the best is reporting the people who support the bill saying” Reason for reporting abuse-I feel this person is un educated and inherently endangering all of our wellbeing by supporting things like this".

 

[yanici]

"Will it really kill legal gun owners if we restrict them to one gun purchase a month? It may kill children if we don’t."

Just think if it could be one gun/year. Then you'd really get those nasty things off the street. Heck, in two years the City of Boston would be crime free.

 

[Zappa]

Why not just pass a law limiting criminals to one crime a month?

It certainly couldn't be any less successful at reducing crime than the BS they're proposing now.

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[Shark_Cage]

How about one abortion every 5 years.

 

[xtry51]

Why not just pass a law limiting criminals to one crime a month?

It certainly couldn't be any less successful at reducing crime than the BS they're proposing now.
[sad2]

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