The "People Have Taken Action" is increasing quickly. Right now it is 44452. Ruger says they are not using your info for anything other than legislative action.
"Press 'Submit' and we will prepare the letter below, in your name to the President, Vice-President, your Senators, Representative, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State-Level Elected Officials and State Attorney General."
It’s a step in the right direction for Ruger after they threw the 2nd Amendment under the bus to give themselves a boost by helping the 1994 semi auto ban pass.
They have a long way to go before I’ll buy any Ruger product. If they want the support of a lot of good people out here, they’ll work to repeal the Hughes Amendment.
Until that point, I’m avoiding buying any new Ruger guns.
Background checks are an onerous and totally ineffective burden on gun owners.
I doubt if any criminal was ever stopped from obtaining a gun and using it in a crime by them. They might stop him from getting one legally but they are a pain in the neck for ordinary citizens.
Several years ago, I somehow got on the FBI’s list because they kept delaying approval. they would always eventually approve the sale but often I had to drive a long way to get the gun. I am sure it kept me from purchasing guns on several occasions just because I didn’t want to go through the process.
I have noticed in the last few years there is no longer a delay. BTW I have a perfect record. Never tried or convicted of anything. I haven’t even had a speeding ticket in over 20 years.
P4L
First, there are already more than 20,000 gun control laws actively on the books today and none of them prevented this tragedy. Second, millions upon million of people in America own guns and 99.9999% of them have never and will never do anything like this.
So, let’s lose the hysteria and analyze the facts - a PERSON did this, NOT a hunk of steel. In Portland, a PERSON killed two people in the mall, NOT a hunk of steel! In Denver, a PERSON shot up the theater, NOT a hunk of steel!!
NONE of these facts will matter to the gun-grabbing nanny-staters, because they focus solely on the gun and nothing else. So, what happens if ALL guns are outlawed and forcibly collected by the feds? Someone bent on committing mass murder may turn to knives, hatchets, chainsaws or machetes. So, we outlaw those. The next person to commit a heinous crime may use a bat, poison, poison gas or a semi-tractor. And the one after that may use a car, a pen or pencil, a rock, his hands . . . . . . so when do we blame the PERSON and NOT the inanimate weapon!???
The fact remains that until the left understands that murdering humans by ANY means including their favorite method, abortion, human life will be valueless and more copycats will come out to exercise their demented mass murder of innocent people.
All of that said, it occurs to me that the gun-grabbers are from the leftist school of complete control. What that means is that if 1 person commits a gun crime then, under the leftist theory of the “collective” and “groupthink”, they believe that ALL gun owners will commit mass murder unless they eliminate guns (good luck with that!). So, the calls for more gun control by the left after these incidents is twofold - eliminate the “balance of power” the Founding Fathers so carefully wove into the Constitution and gain total control over the people.
Another part that affects all of this is the fact that laws, whether gun laws, robbery laws, or whatever, are written solely to affect law-abiding citizens. People who commit crimes are called “outlaws” and criminals because they DON’T adhere to the laws created to control or stop their illegal activities.
So, should the left create additional gun control laws, will it prevent the next gun-related crime? Of course not. Laws only affect those of us who obey them. Those who disregard the law won’t be stopped from committing whatever crime they want to commit.
As a final note, Adam Lanza did not own the guns he used to murder all of the people at Sandy Hook Elementary. They were his mother’s guns and they were all legally purchased and registered. Which begs the question, what will any NEW gun control laws accomplish?
BTTT
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