Charleston SC shooting

I am so proud of a city I love responding as it has thus far. I'm humbled and encouraged by the response of the families of the victims to the killer - what profound expressions of faith and the power of the Gospel. I grieve for the loss of brothers and sisters in Christ and am grateful for the outpouring of love and sympathy for Mother Emmanuel. Grateful now for so many calls to bring down the flag. It's a worthy move to make. Hopefully it will be made due to more to a heart issue rather than political expediency - but I'll take the latter over doubling down on dumb.

Wish that those of you who have mocked faith and prayer in this thread (in incredibly poor taste considering the victims and the moving expressions of their families) wouldn't have. But it is what it is. Imho, it is that faith which will win.

Grace & Peace.

We are good people, hurt people, misunderstood people. Some people just refuse to see or believe it.
 
Well Einstein, how are you going to get those guns off the street, especially in the hood?

I think Rove is right, you have to overturn the 2nd amendment. I think that would be a horrible precedent. It's a lazy solution and an incredibly unlikely solution. I think Obama's mistake was that he gave into extremism. He went after guns that never deserved to be banned. He didn't have his eye on the mental health issues that we have in this country. He could have found his gun solution if he just didn't give into his idea of banning things. I personally believe Obama believes in banning guns, so I think he went with his true beliefs, but I think he hit this at the wrong angle.
 
bill O has it right :

Here’s what you do with guns…you federalize all gun crimes, number one. You take it out of the local jurisdiction and state and you federalize it, right? So therefore if you’re caught in a gun crime holding up a 7-11, you get a mandatory 10 years if you’re convicted in a federal pen, on top of whatever Slurpee you stole.” [...]

The second thing you do is, if you buy a gun, you have to register the gun — just like you have to register your car, alright. Now, people say ‘Oh, slippery slope, they’re gonna come–. Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”

Only thing you can do since the guns are already on the streets and no laws will prevent thugs from getting guns illegally
 
bill O has it right :

Here’s what you do with guns…you federalize all gun crimes, number one. You take it out of the local jurisdiction and state and you federalize it, right? So therefore if you’re caught in a gun crime holding up a 7-11, you get a mandatory 10 years if you’re convicted in a federal pen, on top of whatever Slurpee you stole.” [...]

The second thing you do is, if you buy a gun, you have to register the gun — just like you have to register your car, alright. Now, people say ‘Oh, slippery slope, they’re gonna come–. Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”

Only thing you can do since the guns are already on the streets and no laws will prevent thugs from getting guns illegally

Yeah - the feds have really done well with the drug problems
 
bill O has it right :

Here’s what you do with guns…you federalize all gun crimes, number one. You take it out of the local jurisdiction and state and you federalize it, right? So therefore if you’re caught in a gun crime holding up a 7-11, you get a mandatory 10 years if you’re convicted in a federal pen, on top of whatever Slurpee you stole.” [...]

The second thing you do is, if you buy a gun, you have to register the gun — just like you have to register your car, alright. Now, people say ‘Oh, slippery slope, they’re gonna come–. Hey, this makes it easier for the government to take a thug who has a gun that’s not registered and put him in jail for 10 years.”

Only thing you can do since the guns are already on the streets and no laws will prevent thugs from getting guns illegally

not bad ideas and similar to what i have said to a degree
 
You are talking about Ted Cruz, the numbnut who is from OUTSIDE South Carolina, right? Has anyone else noticed how every single thing that happens in this country has to be first analyzed as to which special little subgroup it either helps or potentially harms and them the sides line up from there?? He's actually probably right about this, but if it benefited the Repubs there would have more people there than free brownies at a Rosie O'Donnell press conference.

By the way Garmel, you really don't own a gun at all? What the f*ck kind of Texan are you??? I went to Fort Worth today to see my granddaughter, who is about a month shy of being 3 years old take part in a fashion show. My favorite saying on this matter is that (and this is true) I have more guns than John Wayne. Of course I live in McCurtain Country Oklahoma, aka the Wild Wild West.

Oh man that is bad. I've been living in Oklahoma for about 5 years now and have heard a lot of stories. I imagine most are true.
 
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