LeviF

Good afternoon. I read your post.

Straw purchases are already illegal. Falsified answer on your 4473 is a prosecutable offense. Dude you posted a thread from a blue check that has no details in it. What did you expect?

As to the first, maybe start by actually prosecuting criminals in urban areas. When DAs and city executives essentially wage a proxy war against their own citizens via DPs and early releases your proposal to criminalize some of those citizens for arming themselves is going to go over like a lead balloon. As to the second, have you considered that you’re fretting about the wrong thing? Mass shootings of the kind in buffalo and uvalde represent an extremely small percentage of gun homicides. Most gun homicides involve only one victim and are usually committed via a handgun in the inner city. Instituting robust anti-crime policies such as stop-and-frisk in such areas is a proven way to get illegal guns off the streets.

Maybe so. But the point remains: you need to prop up a legal framework that doesn't already exist. You're talking about turning victims of crime into criminals based on what happens with the fruits of their victimization. This flies in the face of our legal tradition. I understand and agree that people need to be responsible about how they store their firearms, but we don't penalize people who are victims of theft of other things they were irresponsible with. It's nice that I prioritize and can afford a $5,000+ safe, but there are folks out there who don't have those options. They opt for a cabinet that locks, basically keeping guns out of the hands of their kids so no terrible accidents happen. But these cabinets won't stop a thief who wants to steal guns. Which brings us back around, again, to the idea that this is just another way to price people out of their rights.

I haven’t defended anything. But feds aren’t cops. Not sure why I’m supposed to care about what the vibrant community of the district has to say about it.

No I don’t. Feds aren’t cops. This isn’t a difficult concept.

You may note that there are a couple exceptions to the basement safe. One of these is in a quick-access safe on my nightstand. And yes, I hunt and I shoot in local competitions. Our legal system hinges on several common-law holdovers that would be upended if we starting pinning crimes on people who are actually victims. Let's take your logic all the way to the end here and (if you feel it necessary) walk back to a point that you think is reasonable. Say a police officer gets the ***** kicked out of him on the street and his duty gun is stolen and then used to murder more cops. Should that officer be prosecuted? Does there need to be negligence? Or maybe recklessness? If both involve criminal culpability then how do you structure the penalties for each? Even the toughest state in the union on this matter (Hawaii) absolves you from liability as long as you report the theft. This seems less like a "common-sense" measure and more of a "find more ways to punish gun owners of lesser means simply for the audacity to exercise their rights."

With a couple exceptions, every gun of mine is locked in a safe that is bolted into the concrete floor in my basement. If some enterprising thief manages to cut it out of the floor and haul it out of my house, I should be responsible for whatever happens with those guns? lol go ***** yourself

What, you don’t like drugs?

Do you think CoQ is gobbled, smoked, or taken as a suppository?

I said what I said.

Steroids

It's a drug for some of these guys.

Duh nuh nuh nuh Duh nuh nuh nuh... GUN MAN!

I think this less likely to go the COVID direction and more in the AIDS direction. Since monkeypox appears to discriminate towards alphabetsexuals, we'll pour in billions of dollars in finding a way for such folks to sodomize each other indiscriminately with zero effect on their life expectancy.

While the FBI combs through the hotel records of every Marriott property in the DMV, reviews thousands of hours of footage from every camera in DC, and parses through millions of credit card transactions to identify and locate every ####### who pissed in a Capitol urinal without permission so they can toss them in a DC jail for months so they can plead guilty to trespassing, we still mysteriously have zero leads on the guy who planted pipe bombs at the same location a day earlier. Feds aren't cops.

Friend/enemy dichotomy at work.

Marino might be the best passer to ever play the game. At this point it's between him and Rodgers. Josh Allen could blow them both away at his current trajectory.

Check out the Twitter account “women posting their Ls online.” Pretty sure your favorite (second favorite?) porn star has a few entries there.

I feel bad for that stripper he knocked up. Imagine being tied to a family this beneath you because you let a dude tap it with no rubber.

I'm not sure it's dumbassery so much as it is the slipping in of an old "current thing" when the rest of his party has moved on. Joe's been in politics for a long time. The lib talking point used to be handguns; as you may recall the big gun violence problem they liked to point to back then was inner city gang shootings which the 9mm round dominates. But since the Democrats have taken a swan dive into the struggle session pool, they can't point out the obvious anymore, they have to latch onto a new "current thing" that doesn't affect their consecrated minority class. Thus, the demonization of the light rifle. President Biden, being long in the tooth both in age and in his political career, has a hard time sticking to the script.

Ewan McGregor with a lightsaber surrounded by mediocre acting and a bad script. It's like he never left!

I have it on good authority that @teef's office orders nitrous tanks at quantities that don't match up with his patient billings. So take what he says with a grain of salt.

Yeah I think it has less to do with the political stuff than it does the constantly underwhelming talent.

this but unironically. his clowning on the cowboys every November/December is must watch. Of course those clips can be seen on Twitter for free.