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Why does the president get special security detail and I don't? I bet he can go into a bar with an armed guard. Why can't I bring my handgun into a bar? I WANT MY FAIR SHARE OF SECURITY!

On the level!

Hey Tvash, can I keep my F-18 at your place? I was thinking I could park it in that garage/shed of yours. I think the wings fold up.

If the military gets nukes and f-18s, then the people should get nukes and f-18s

As final evidence that gun bans CAN work -- the machine gun ban enacted decades ago has been fantastically successful at reducing the rate of fully-automatic weapon use in violent crimes. Likewise, you don't see a lot of grenades on the streets.

For the record, I would be OK allowing assault rifles if instead we had mandatory background checks for ALL sales (with improved reporting and classification of the mentally ill), and a mandatory gun registry to track ownership transfers, and a gun license that required proof you still owned the guns every few years. That would probably do more to combat gun violence than any other measure. IMO that would be a fair trade.

They'll be made abroad and smuggled. Guaranteed. And we will not be able to stop it - just look how well the War on Drugs has worked in curtailing smuggled drugs. I can tell you from personal experience it is a LOT easier to buy assault rifles now, post ban, than it was during the ban. Back then you had to find someone with a pre-ban assault rifle that wanted to sell it and didn't want a lot. There were not a lot of "smuggled" assault rifles on the market. I'd like to go back to those days. Also, with pending legislation making background checks mandatory for even private sales, all we're missing is a gun registry -- once we have that, we can tell who is selling them illegally. How often do you see people buying cars on the blackmarket that have been smuggled in and have no ownership trail? Not many. More common for blackmarket cars to just be chopped up for parts. Maybe some day we'll achieve that with guns, but probably not until the NRA loses relevance in congress.

"Made in China" Sure, but not made in your basement like marijuana. Nothing will prevent illegal smuggling, but it's better than letting crazy people and felons buy the shit on craigslist with no questions asked. I'm in favor of speed bumps in residential zones, too.

to be fair, the assault rifle ban is not on selling or owning them, it's on MAKING them. That's a significant difference. It's hard to smuggle something that isn't being made anymore. Harder, anyway.

more relevant today, though, might be the gip's opinion on tightening up the brady bill such that folks can't easily avoid the background check. what did he think of gun shows and private sales? good question, though his language in the article suggest he wanted *effective* background checks, which is something we've never had. we do know how he felt about banning assault rifles , though.

Who liked gun control? This guy.

how am I ever going to cape anyone on the interglacier if kevbone outlaws guns?

this is my rifle, this is my gun

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I think Will Ferrell captured it in a tweet he sent yesterday (even tho Oprah denies it): "Lance Armstrong confesses to Oprah on drug use. What i$ it about her interview$ that make$ everyone $pill their gut$" According to Oprah's website, she never pays guests for their interviews. Do you suppose she's lying?

Let's go to vegas! http://www.stripgunclub.com/Firearms.aspx

I would probably buy somoas but I wouldn't be proud about it

Also, he may have beat other cheaters, but Lance and the rest of the cheaters were all stealing from those who chose to race clean. And let me be clear, cheating is stealing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/9800888/Nicole-Cooke-retires-from-cycling-and-takes-aim-at-Tyler-Hamilton-and-Lance-Armstrong.html

It's not about Lance doping, it's about Lance being the world's biggest cockhead about hiding it. How many people did he attack and attempt to destroy in order to keep his lie? Lots. He can eat a big bag of dicks for all I care. He's about a million times more douchy than landis, and everybody hates landis. Besides, he gave Sheryl Crow his cancer and then left her. Rude!

Remember how they originally reported the AR-15 used by Adam Lanza had been found in the car, unused? And then they suddenly changed it and said he used an assault rifle, after all -- because that was a key component, in order to get assault rifles banned. But this one was done shoddy, that's for sure, and they most have not got the memo out to everyone. Last minute.