[marktwain]

Anti-gun silliness from the Hartford Courant. Comments are easy to make, though, and don't seem to require registration.

[Slapshot68]

How many criminals get their guns from shows, I wonder. I’d think it wouldn’t be that many.

[bmwcyle]

Buy now before the elections.

[mtbopfuyn]

Agh, should I laugh or cry? Sure, just stop the illegal guns and the crime problems will go away.

[DuncanWaring]

Many violent urban crimes and college campus shootings could be prevented if Congress would pass laws to impose foolproof methods of stopping legal guns from getting into the wrong hands.

Yeah, and if frogs had wings they wouldn't have to go bouncing around the pavement on their ass.

Weapons can't even be kept out of maximum-security prisons.

Ptooie.

[yantis]

Why it is that illegal aliens are “good” but illegal guns are “bad” is beyond me.

[Hacklehead]

“People who owned or had access to legal firearms either lost them or sold them to convicted criminals, the mentally ill and other people who were unauthorized to own guns.”

Lost or sold? How about stolen, or is that lumped in under “lost”?

[Travis McGee]

The mayors group is a front for Bloomburg, entirely funded by him.

THis is about outlawing private sales, and making every gun transaction subject to govt scrutiny: registration IOW.

[Hardastarboard]

if Congress would pass laws to impose foolproof methods of stopping legal guns from getting into the wrong hands

Foolproof systems fail to take into account the ingenuity of fools.

[Drew68]

and bar people on the terrorist no-fly list from purchasing guns.

I'd be curious to see what this list looks like. I've read many stories of people, children even, with common names like "David Thompson" or "John Miller" getting stopped at the gates because their names appear on this list.

[zerosix]

"Stop Illegal Gun Sales"

Hey, if we can't stop illegal aliens from entering or continuing to live and commit crimes in the U.S., why should we even bother with "illegal gun sales?"

[from occupied ga]

Stop Illegal Gun Sales

I agree, and the easiest way is to void all laws that interfere with gun sales hence making all sales legal.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

This gun show loophole crap does not even exist in Pennsylvania. If you sell a personal handgun at a gunshow to another private buyer you have to go to one of the tables and get a background check done there at a minimal cost ( 5 - 10 bucks) before completing the purchase. I suppose you could just sell it without the background check, but then again you can do that without the gunshow also and it’s illegal.

What more laws do these anti gunnuts want?

[Rick.Donaldson]

People who owned or had access to legal firearms either lost them or sold them to convicted criminals, the mentally ill and other people who were unauthorized to own guns.

For the most part, this is a load of nonsense. Criminals STEAL guns, or they get them from a strawman purchase (which is illegal!) thus, the person purchasing them in the first place can be charged.

The rest are likely stolen weapons.

[ctdonath2]

Requiring more cooperation from those who won’t cooperate won’t work.

Crack is illegal everywhere in this country, has to be imported, faces a “war on drugs”, yet is available to anyone who wants it within about 2 hours.

[BwanaNdege]

Just take a look at England where handguns are tightly controlled. Now they have begun regulating all types of knives and even cricket bats. Sticks & Rocks are next.

When the current Uganda regime overthrew the previous, angry citizens attacked the retreating defeated army. Some soldiers were beaten to death with junk automobile shock absorbers.

You cannot prevent access to everything that someone might use to inflict harm on another. You can make the penalties for doing so very, very odious. Then you frequently remind folks that if you do this, YOU will suffer. Every time!

Breaking rocks for the rest of your life for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would be a starting place. Between breaking rocks you are growing your own food. “No veggie, no eatie”.

[Doohickey]

Restricting illegal gun traffic is a law enforcement issue, not a Second Amendment issue.

A distinction without a difference.

[Joe Brower]

Enemy action ping.

[clee1]

The mayors want Congress to stop gun-show sales of firearms to people without background checks; require checks on gun-shop employees; block gun dealers with revoked licenses from selling off their weapons stock; and bar people on the terrorist no-fly list from purchasing guns.

These measures will do exactly NOTHING to stop criminals from getting guns.

Having said that, I have no problems with the first three "proposals" anyway, and my only gripe with the last is that you can be put on the "no-fly" list for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with felony convictions, domestic violence, or mental illness.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

“...if Congress would pass laws to impose foolproof methods...”

How can a company of fools impose fool proof methods?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It isn’t silliness, it is pure stupidity. I wonder just what “foolproof laws” he would enact that would PREVENT criminals from getting guns?