Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Thieves used the cab of a semi-truck to smash down the door of a Ventura, California gun store to steal guns. Video is on-line.
15 guns in the hands of criminals and no background check! Damn the NRA.
Why won’t Congress pass common-sense legislation making semi-trucks safer?
Joe Doakes
And storefronts!
Oh, wait – they already did. The thieves got bigger trucks and heavier chains.
Why, it’s almost as if criminals will go above and beyond what the law tries to prevent them from doing…
Silly Merg. You got it all wrong. If there were no guns, there would be no need for outstanding young men with bright futures to turn to life of crime to steal them. Remove the object of desire, and you remove the criminal desire to acquire it by any means necessary. “…Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people sharing all the world…” yada, yada, yada. See how that works?
Here’s a thought Joe – if those stores weren’t selling semi-automatic weapons, it would matter much less if those guns were in the hands of criminals because it would reduce the criminal versus police arms race taking place.
And one of the measures proposed as sensible gun regulation other than background checks was to demand greater storage security on the part of both private individuals AND vendors of firearms.
While that might not prevent EVERY criminal from obtaining a firearm, it would certainly make it more difficult, and likely reduce those obtaining them.
What makes the NRA the damn NRA is obstruction of any regulation that would make it more difficult for a criminal to get their hands on guns.
But I think you know that, and I think you know you are making a dishonest argument.
Here’s the thing Joe, recently there was a well-covered news story where a car dealership was broken into using a vehicle to crash into a building, allowing multiple thieves to steal almost a dozen cars.
The dealership admitted that they had made ti too easy for the crooks to get away with the vehicles by not securing the keys to those vehicles better, such as in a safe.
Much like vehicles can be made less accessible to crooks, so can firearms – and they should be. It’s just that gun nuts can’t admit there is a problem that requires a solution, instead they try – dishonestly – to pretend there are not solutions.
Solutions exist, and we need to make use of them. That is why other countries have fewer criminals with guns. That is why there is less gun violence in states with gun regulation.
Dog Gone said:
“What makes the NRA the damn NRA is obstruction of any regulation that would make it more difficult for a criminal to get their hands on guns.”
I am pretty sure you don’t know what the NRA stands for and against if you’re willing to state this as a “fact”. You might want to “check” it, but I trust that you won’t.
translating DG speak
When DG says ” it would reduce the criminal versus police arms race taking place.” what she really means is ” it would reduce the citizen versus police arms race taking place.” , she has been very clear in past posts about little she trusts her fellow citizens.
You know, Dog Gone might have a point. Victims are to blame for making things too easy for criminals. We should apply that policy to other crimes.
Women should not dress so provocatively, nor get drunk at frat parties, as it encourages rape.
Seniors should not keep valuables in their nursing home rooms, as it encourages staff to steal.
Muslims should not shoot up office Christmas parties as it encourages Christians to want to deport the lot of them.
Yes, this “blame the victim” mentality has real potential, Dog Gone. Thanks for sharing the idea.
DG,
What Joe said.
JD, you just described Sharia. As-salam Aleikum.
Doggone, as long as there are things with stealing, people will use increasingly flagrant means of stealing them. The end result of your logic, as Joe and JPA note, is women in burqas, every store selling toilet paper having 3″ thick steel doors, and….rape and theft STILL being rampant. Just ask the Afghans.
Please, ask Vanna if you can buy a clue for $500.
First of all, what Joe said above.
Secondly, increased restrictions and bans don’t solve potential violence. Obviously, banning drugs hasn’t done much in the US. And ask pharmacists about securing drugs- pharmacies get robbed all of the time.
Why do people turn to life of crimes? Why are stolen guns so valuable on the black market? The issues that I see in the US are issues relating to a loss of human value, a loss of respect for human life. A loss of respect for one’s self worth. Those issues won’t change through stricter regulations of guns.
Say dg? Tell us; when you barge in here with your yapper flapping , and the wind whistling through your empty head, you always get destroyed by every comment that follows; do you feel violated?
Lol.
It’s really too bad that Barackus Obamanus I is, among other things, such an ignorant hypocrite. His gun control agenda didn’t work too well with his Fast and Furious operation, did it? Of course, I don’t want people to think that I blame everything on his excellency. Eric Holder and Valerie Jarret were involved, too.