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Thread #134829   Message #3071247
Posted By: Bobert
10-Jan-11 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: AZ Congresswoman Giffords shot
Subject: RE: BS: AZ Congresswoman Giffords shot
Some folks say that the laws are fine... They say that we just need to enforce the laws... This is incorrect... The laws aren't just fine... Anyone can go to Richmond, Virginia for one of their many gun shows and buy whatever the heck they want to buy... No background checks... No nuthin'... You got the cash and the sky is the limit in terms of just how much fire power you wnat to take home... Or back to Mexico...

As for the 9mm Glock not being a machine gun??? Well, that is correct... It is a semi-automatic and can be fired as fast as one can pull the trigger... Look down at your own finger and go thru the motion of pullin' a trigger... How many seconds did it take you to empty a 20 round extended clip??? 6 seconds??? 8??? 10 seconds???

How many of you have fired a 9mm??? What happens to the accuracy when it is fired that quickly??? Well, unless you are highly skilled the accuracy goes to pot with each successive shot because of the recoil... That means that unless you are highly trained and skilled that after the 1st shot then it's Katie-bar-the-door for the rest of them...

Maybe Rap can better explain it but the bottom line is that these weapons in the hands of folks who are not highly trained and smkilled is like tossing the car keys to a drunk teenager...

That is the point here... The NRA quit being an organization that cared about gun safety into one that only care$ about $ales of gun$...

So I would hope over the coming months that we will also examine the general public's needs for guns that should only be in the hands of highly trained and skilled owners... I mean, isn't that reasonable???

B~