Tuttle8 said:
Tennessee Gentleman said:
No but there are unscrupulous people who will sell a gun to anyone no questions asked and they are the problem. Not you selling to your brother.
Making private sales without a backgound check illegal will stop some of them and those it doesn't stop will do time when they are caught. Under current law today there is nothing but their conscience to stop them and they don't have one of those.
All of us suffer inconvienence and restriction because of the wrongdoing/idiocy of others. Remember that the next time you go thru airport security.
That's one of my points. An possible isolated incident shouldn't cause a knee jerk reaction to affect others' rights.
Just so we are both on the same page, I referenced the complete quote Tuttle8 was responding to. Since he only quoted the part I highlighted above, I can see some confusion.
My quoting only part of your response to Tuttle, was in direct reference to the full quote above and had nothing to do with the previous details of headgear regulation by the States.
Isolated in the context we are talking about, means more like being "not close together," as within the larger population.
I would have thought that my example of the multitude of reported kidnapings, provided the exact context.
The 1968 GCA was a knee-jerk reaction to the deaths of the two Kennedys and MLK. That is well documented.
Sure the media plays into that but violent acts uncommon forty years ago are becoming more so today (ironically IMO fueled by said media).
Ironically, the media plays a much larger role today than then. Then, news was reported. Now, news is almost manufactured.
Ironic also that the UCR reports (this includes the statistically insignificant blip of 2007) less crime now, than then. Accounting for the population increase over the last 40 years, one would expect it to be the same or higher. It isn't.
However, one simply can't say with a straight face, that gun control is at work in the diminishing crime stats. Several major studies have all concluded that gun laws have little if any affect upon crime. Much to the consternation of those that funded the studies.
I'll save the Pseudoephedrine/meth connection for another time. Suffice it to say, correlation is not causality, here too.