[Magdalen] A gun control legislation conversation.

[Jay Weigel]

I am a frequent reader of, and sometime contributor to, Daily Kos. Here's a
pretty good article on the subject from yesterday that very much pertains
to that issue. They guy supports Mike's arguments pretty persuasively,
being himself a gun owner Another diary on the recent shooting, please read
I think it is worth it.
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1426935/-Another-diary-on-the-recent-shooting-please-read-I-think-it-is-worth-it>

I personally think guns should be treated pretty much like
automobiles....licensed, regulated, and insured. No license and no
insurance, you're in the doghouse.....and furthermore, you can't operate
one below a certain age. And they'd better be locked up away from kids
while not in use or you are in serious trouble.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:33 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that's well put.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:45 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Nothing bad, but I'm genuinely surprised.  My lead and co-worker, J,
> > responded to yesterday's news with the horrible saw of "Gun control laws
> > won't stop this from happening."  As her elder, as a master of the
> English
> > language (sic sic sic), and as a priest, she definitely listens to what I
> > say.  I didn't disagree with her.  What I did say was along the lines of
> > "Even Obama says we obviously can't stop the lone wolves totally.  But
> > since gun control leglisation has nothing to do with second amendment
> > rights (which, by the way, are not about the right to carry
> semi-automatic
> > killing machines into local restaurants just because some states say you
> > can), we HAVE to start somewhere, in order to catch up to the STARTING
> > POINT of other civilised countries -- and by the way, that means all of
> > them -- and at least make gun ownership as bothersome yet doable as
> > everything else we take for granted.  We have the right to own and drive
> a
> > car, but not without a license and insurance.  You and I enforce
> floodplain
> > regulations, which many consider a "taking", but our answer is always
> that
> > they are in place to preserve and protect against unmanaged and damaging
> > development in areas that could otherwise become death traps during even
> > minor flooding events.  It's not about guns.  It's about requiring every
> > member of the body politic to behave in a way that remembers that without
> > said laws, asshol*s get these high-powered killing sticks and shoot up
> > elementary schools much easier than without them.  Sum it up as having
> your
> > president come into the White House press room to talk about such things,
> > every other month or so, instead of what feels like, and often is,
> actually
> > every month.  Obama knows he'll have to do it again.  But he doesn't want
> > to keep his notes in his pocket so as to be ready at the drop of a hat."
> >
> > She more or less got the point.
> >
>