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Shooting spotlights gun sales problem
Dailynews.com ^ | May 20, 2008 | Rachel Uranga

Posted on 05/20/2008 11:52:29 AM PDT by PROCON

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To: Nachoman

You’re right; look how well that has worked in D.C. and NYC. /sarc


21 posted on 05/20/2008 12:36:05 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: PapaBear3625
Drug gangs will always have guns. If all else fails, they'll smuggle them into the country disguised as a routine cocaine shipment. Or send some of their people into the armed forces and arrange for a truckload of M16s to get "lost"

Why would you hide a firearm "disguised as a routine cocaine shipment"? The feds are looking for cocaine shipments...even the routine ones. I did hear from an FBI special agent that gang members are joining the military and funneling M16s to their "homies". The southern California gangs are building a big arms cache with the intent of unleashing hell when they feel they are sufficiently armed.

22 posted on 05/20/2008 12:47:48 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: pnh102

We need a one strike rule. Get caught with a gun while on parole, and you get mandatory life with no parole.


23 posted on 05/20/2008 1:29:44 PM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist Muslims in the WH)
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To: PROCON

***As outraged politicians called for an investigation Monday into how a violent parolee got his hands on a semiautomatic rifle and shot three people at a Granada Hills church festival, frustrated law enforcement officials admitted what has become painfully clear - if criminals want guns, they’ll find them. Despite some of the country’s toughest gun laws, California’s violent ex-cons, like Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, have no problem arming themselves.***

DUH! YA THINK?!


24 posted on 05/20/2008 1:39:18 PM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. - Optimus Prime)
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To: Supercharged Merlin
The ONLY answer is to end the restrictions altogether, and let us defend ourselves.
25 posted on 05/20/2008 1:44:16 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: chainsaw
We need a one strike rule. Get caught with a gun while on parole, and you get mandatory life with no parole.

It is already illegal for felons to have any firearms. This rule just simply needs to be enforced. Of course, the fact that any violent felon gets parole to begin with shows there is a huge enforcement problem already.

26 posted on 05/20/2008 1:51:55 PM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: PROCON
Rachel Uranga -- dancing on another grave...


27 posted on 05/20/2008 2:45:34 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Myrddin
Why would you hide a firearm "disguised as a routine cocaine shipment"?

It was supposed to be sarcasm. If we can't stop cocaine from coming in, we will not stop guns and bullets either

Guns would be fairly easy. Disassembled parts coming in with shipments of other kinds of machine parts would be hard to spot. Or just have an unemployed machinist MAKE guns

28 posted on 05/20/2008 3:26:28 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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