Parting Shot!
- Thread starter Alinvegas
- Start date
Stolen gun....nah, buy one from Craigslist....
Lapcat
Governor
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
Why won't all you people trust us "law abiding citizens"? We're a race of people who never ever and never ever will do criminal things, unlike people of that race of criminals, trust us, we're the "good guys"!
freyasman
Senator
Happy to, Knot... I wouldn't lose a moments sleep if you had a gun in your possession. If you want one, buy one; if you don't.... then don't. Simple, isn't it?
Craigslist does not allow gun sales.
This article was from late in 2011...what has changed since then?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffber...s-its-easy-to-buy-illegal-guns-on-craigslist/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffber...s-its-easy-to-buy-illegal-guns-on-craigslist/
marvin martian
Emperor
Read the very first line of your own link. Once again, criminals commit crimes. Simple, right?
OldGaffer
Governor
Reread the thread....the first post implied the only way a gun crime is committed is by stealing a gun....that isn't true by a longshot....
So how do you propose impacting the black market in guns? Universal background checks and stiff penalties for selling a gun without one is the solution being proposed.
Not so much.....most prisoners polled say they bought their guns from friends and family....
Where did the friends and family get them?
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
If their friends and family haven't committed a crime yet (which would mean they might be caught by a background check) they could walk into any place that sold guns legally and buy them, then the could commit a crime with them, either by using them themselves or getting them to their relatives who have already committed a crime.
But you're speculating. What demographics show is that criminals tend to hang around with (wait for it), criminals. Yeah, they get their guns from "friends and family." Unless you can show that the friends and family purchased the guns legally, I'm going to assume that criminal A bought gun X from criminal B who stole it or bought it on the black market as a stolen gun.
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
A little insight
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
I'm sorry TD, but why the hell would someone go to buy a gun illegally on the black market that might be traced, the same way guns were traced by "fast and furious" when they could buy a gun legally and have no suspicion cast upon them or add to an offense charges they might incur by passing along or selling that weapon knowingly to a friend or family who was a criminal.
Are you saying that if any of your friends or relatives committed a crime, you'd by association, be a criminal? What does that make all of Lanza's family and friends? How about all of Holme's family and friends or Loughner's, etc.????
A lot of criminals come by their guns by stealing them from people who buy them legally.
The fact is, that no criminal that ever existed in the history of human kind, was born a criminal, they were born "law abiding", that is, until they broke the law. That suggests that to claim some sort of warranty of "safe" non-criminal behavior from "law abiding" citizens is perfectly M-E-A-N-I-N-G-L-E-S-S!!
