Gun buyback event back-fires. Oh the humanity!

Will you ever learn, gun grabbers? So full of FAIL and FUBAR, but you keep trudging along
often in circles, like a one-armed man rowing a boat. You want to make your community safer?
How about a dick buy-back? Every man who can't stay and help raise his kids after he knocks a woman up
cuts his dick off and sells it for 100 dollars an inch.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/c...rganizer-upset-forfeited-guns-arent-destroyed

Meanwhile:

Texas Considers Alcohol Sales at Gun Shows

What could possibly go wrong?

I'll have to ask my best friend about that (he's a high-ranking officer with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission). I thought alcohol sales at gun shows was legal unless the venue prohibited it.

I've been to several shows where beer was sold and I've had one or two while browsing the aisles.

Amazingly, I don't recall gunplay breaking out at any of them.

you forgot one thing.....

So, not much really.

Plenty I guess. But what will go wrong? Nothing at the actual gun show. Any guess eventually somebody will get in a fatal car wreck on the way back home from the gun show? Maybe we need to ban drinking at any formal event - music concerts, sporting events, etc.

Inside the venue? Given the safeguards on weapons purchased there, probably not much. But are potential buyers allowed to walk in with their own - probably loaded - weapons? That's something you all would know better than I.

But outside in the parking lot and thereafter?

Leaving aside whether you agree with her or not...

I would be pretty damned pissed too if I thought I was helping my community by removing guns and found out they were turning around and selling them back.

Thousands of events, hundreds of thousands of patrons - less than a handful of violent/tragic incidents.
I'd put that safety record up against any pro football, basketball or baseball event anytime.
I guess gun enthusiasts are in general a more responsible/mature group of people - nothing I didn't already know.

Maybe she should have done some research and found out that gun-buybacks are "tits on a pipe-wrench"
effective and accomplish nothing but make the event holders feel better. At the the folks conducting
the "Take Back Our Neighborhood" protest marches are getting some exercise.

I kinda wish there was a buy-back around here some time.
Might at least get a few bucks for those crappy old guns that Dad left me that don't even work any more.

Sheriff Richard Roundtree?

HA! Yes it is hard to hear his name and not think that movie, especially since he's black.

To @frontline 's last paragraph: how many folks with illegally pruchased/ procured weapons do you think these buybacks attract? Most people get guns illegally so they can keep doing illegal shit.

Good point. And I'm guessing criminals don't want to be around a buy-back event because they tend to have cops milling around or monitoring the proceedings. And I'm thinking running any kind of check on weapons or people might not be a place criminals/folks on probation/parole would go near. So you get little old ladies selling their dead husband's guns.

Buy backs are known by criminals as a great way to get rid of evidence. They turn in a gun they used in a crime, the cops destroy it for them. Great idea!

Meanwhile the NRA is promoting guns for felons, guns for insane people, welfare for gun purchases, and now says blind people should be given guns because they have honed their other senses to be able to actually shoot them accurately and safely. I would love to have made this stuff up, but the NRA and it's members are the true definition of gun nuts. They are irresponsible paranoid jackoffs who would rather have the blind, violent felons, and absolute crazies running around with guns than have some reasonable regulations and background checks on purchases. Yes, if being a gun grabber means I am going to grab the gun out of the hands of a blind crazy violent felon then you can just call me a gun grabber.

Hyperbole aside, I'd like to see what the NRA is actually supporting and not the filtered through hystrionics version.

Is felon = non-violent felon?

Is Blind = Coke bottle glasses blind?

Is "insane" = someone who has had a non-violent and treated mental illness?

If only there was some way to access this information through your computer. Ah well.

NRA removes 'Guns For the Blind' video

Stupidity doesn't stop people from owning guns, and the headlines might suggest there are far more stupid people than blind people in this country.

Burden of proof is on the one making the assertion.

Yeah reading that article shows that it was the opinion of one person, but don't let reality get in the way of the narrative you want to tell.

My narrative is that people like this jackass always manage to find a platform. If you don't believe he's been peddling this bullshit among his peers to a bunch of back-slapping amusement for years, I've got a waterfront property in Brooklyn you might be interested in.

There may not be a greater proportion of teh Stupid among gunlubbers. It just seems that way.

OK.

I'll take this as written permission from you to use the outlier nutbags as representative examples for your ideology also.

And this would differ from you usual M.O. how, exactly?

Oh, and about the NRA and felons, here ya go:

NRA rejects House bill to disarm gun-owning criminals

and

Guns for Felons: How the NRA Works to Rearm Criminals

Also, check out Georgia's new "Guns Everywhere" legislation.

I'm sure all our gunlubbers would argue that the blind should be allowed to drive, too. Because a car and a gun are exactly the same, dontcha know.

Doesn't quite fit the narrative you're trying to spin.


As for your second one, Considering the wording used in the "abstract", I seriously question its objectivity.