America's Gun Violence

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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,220
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Well, we now know of at least one, one too many, sadly. Atlanta shooter bought the gun the day of. ‘Murica.
    This is absolutely embarrassing and unacceptable 
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,322
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,776
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    We have very similar laws in New Jersey and I think they work pretty good.  
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,322
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?
    If you get to checking, you will find that the majority of those shootings involve illegally bought or carried guns. Usually from Indiana or a surrounding State that has lax at best gun laws. Some I am sure are also stolen from households that don't keep them securely locked up. Our system obviously isn't perfect, but it beats the OK Corral mentality that exists in other States.  
  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
    Right. That's where they come from but those people who live in Illinois and are buying these guns don't give two shits about their FOID card.

    Bottom line is they can pass all the laws in the world but without compliance and enforcement of those laws, this shit is going to continue. 
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,776
    dudeman said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
    Right. That's where they come from but those people who live in Illinois and are buying these guns don't give two shits about their FOID card.

    Bottom line is they can pass all the laws in the world but without compliance and enforcement of those laws, this shit is going to continue. 

    'People will only break the law' is a great argument against having laws. 


    MA has some of the strongest gun laws in the books and one of the lowest rate of death by firearm, so yeah, laws work. 
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,322
    dudeman said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
    Right. That's where they come from but those people who live in Illinois and are buying these guns don't give two shits about their FOID card.

    Bottom line is they can pass all the laws in the world but without compliance and enforcement of those laws, this shit is going to continue. 
    Criminals not following the law? Huh, who would have guessed? The point of the laws is that if and when they get caught illegally possessing them there are consequences. Some people are going to do things regardless, but that doesn’t mean you just throw up your hands and say the hell with it. 
  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
    Right. That's where they come from but those people who live in Illinois and are buying these guns don't give two shits about their FOID card.

    Bottom line is they can pass all the laws in the world but without compliance and enforcement of those laws, this shit is going to continue. 

    'People will only break the law' is a great argument against having laws. 


    MA has some of the strongest gun laws in the books and one of the lowest rate of death by firearm, so yeah, laws work. 
    That's the difference right there. MA actually enforces laws and prosecutes people for weapons violations. 

    Do you have any idea how many people are denied purchasing a firearm because they fail the background check? Tens of thousands. Do you know how many of those cases actually result in law enforcement looking into why they were trying to buy a gun? Less than 80 the last I checked.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,183
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    And well, domestic abusers should have access to firearms, right? Its the "responsible" thing to do because someone who hits their partner, certainly wouldn't shoot them, right? From NYT:

    • The House voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act. Senate Republicans object to new provisions that would make it harder for domestic abusers to buy guns.
    I would agree with this taken into context just the way it is.  There must be more red tape attached to it though?

    Once something gets written into law it is really hard to undo it and I'm pretty sure that is what the big picture is about.  Shitty answer and not what you want to hear, I will look further into it.
    I want less red tape as much as the next guy.
    However, when it comes to buying guns there has to be a way to curtail the impulse buying. The depressed or the pissed off or need to rob a bank type of people need to have brakes put on their ability to walk into a store and walk out with a gun.
    Or go to a gun show or any other legit means of purchasing a firearm.
    Impulse buying.  I am going to ask how many crimes are committed from Impulse buying?  As for a waiting period I don't have a problem but I would like to keep person to person sales legal.
    i would tend to agree. Most of these, I'd argue, are planned over the course of several days to weeks to months, depending on the incident. I don't know if I've heard of any of these mass shooting sprees that started with a guy walking into a gun shop and the same day the spree happens. 
    You mean like the Asian shooter?
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  • Merkin Baller
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    dudeman said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    dudeman said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    In Illinois we have a Firearm Owners Identification Card. To purchase firearms or ammo, transport or have firearms in your house you have to possess a valid FOID card. It is issued by the State police after they do back ground checks, and is based on a lot of qualifying conditions as well. Violate any of the conditions and your FOID card will be revoked. Combine that with a 24 hour wait for long guns and a 72 hour wait for handguns, and it is a good start. I don't see why this couldn't be done on a National basis. 
    Chicago is in Illinois, right? Doesn't Chicago consistently have the highest rate of gun violence in the country?


    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017/27140/

    According to this report, over 60% come from out of state, and 20% from Indiana, less than 90 minutes away. 
    Right. That's where they come from but those people who live in Illinois and are buying these guns don't give two shits about their FOID card.

    Bottom line is they can pass all the laws in the world but without compliance and enforcement of those laws, this shit is going to continue. 

    'People will only break the law' is a great argument against having laws. 


    MA has some of the strongest gun laws in the books and one of the lowest rate of death by firearm, so yeah, laws work. 
    That's the difference right there. MA actually enforces laws and prosecutes people for weapons violations. 

    Do you have any idea how many people are denied purchasing a firearm because they fail the background check? Tens of thousands. Do you know how many of those cases actually result in law enforcement looking into why they were trying to buy a gun? Less than 80 the last I checked.
    Oh, for sure; we need to reform law enforcement in America as well as our gun laws, I'm with you there. 
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,322
    I don’t think the issue in Chicago necessarily is non compliance with existing Illinois laws. Much of the gun violence up there ( I live downstate) isn’t from people who tried to buy them legally and were turned down. They were brought illegally into the State and sold to criminals and gang affiliated people who are using them. I am not naive, the stronger laws in this State will never stop the criminals from getting firearms, but it does make it more difficult and increases the consequences of having them. 
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    another bad day, it seems.


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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,416
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    another bad day, it seems.


    Uh oh
    That was my neighborhood supermarket when I lived in Boulder.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    Bentleyspop said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    another bad day, it seems.


    Uh oh
    That was my neighborhood supermarket when I lived in Boulder.
    so sad. witnesses are tweeting that middle aged white fat guy was arrested and is in custody. reports are up to six shot/dead.

    again these are witnesses on twitter so may not be 100% accurate.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    does anybody know if this is boebert's district?
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    reports of police officer dead and bomb squad on the scene.

    fuck.
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,416
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    does anybody know if this is boebert's district?
    Nope
    She's from Rifle ( not kidding look it up)
    Which is west of Glenwood Springs.
    Great place to climb but not live
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    Bentleyspop said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    does anybody know if this is boebert's district?
    Nope
    She's from Rifle ( not kidding look it up)
    Which is west of Glenwood Springs.
    Great place to climb but not live
    well at least it isn't her district. if it were she might have to come out and give a statement that she may not want to make.
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