Gun Confiscation...

[Jedidiah]

Daylight Saving Time is amazingly efficient compared to what it replaced.

[Jedidiah]

What Time is it? Ken Nordine

[One Bad Pig]

Given the chaos that can come from diverse local timekeeping practices, timekeeping is one thing I don't mind the federal government setting.

[Jedidiah]

Given the chaos that can come from diverse local timekeeping practices, timekeeping is one thing I don't mind the federal government setting.

Diversity is desirable!

[Sparko]

Yeah, guy buy-back programs are .. um... make less sense than daylight saving time.

Wasn't there a story about some buy-back program that turned around and sold the guns they took in?

here:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...yback-program/

[KingsGambit]

I feel pretty comfortable saying an actual nationwide confiscation is never happening, not in this century. Obviously there are some people who would like to see it happen but given the sheer number of people who are literally willing to die to protect their right to bear arms and that the US's culture is completely different from, say, Australia in that regard - not happening. Somebody could try it if they wanted to provoke a second civil war.

[Cow Poke]

I feel pretty comfortable saying an actual nationwide confiscation is never happening, not in this century. Obviously there are some people who would like to see it happen but given the sheer number of people who are literally willing to die to protect their right to bear arms and that the US's culture is completely different from, say, Australia in that regard - not happening. Somebody could try it if they wanted to provoke a second civil war.

Pretty much.

[Sparko]

I feel pretty comfortable saying an actual nationwide confiscation is never happening, not in this century. Obviously there are some people who would like to see it happen but given the sheer number of people who are literally willing to die to protect their right to bear arms and that the US's culture is completely different from, say, Australia in that regard - not happening. Somebody could try it if they wanted to provoke a second civil war.

Well if they had a trade-in Gun for Light Saber, I bet you would get a lot of business.

[Teallaura]

Diversity is desirable!

Train wrecks aren't.

[rogue06]

Several years ago here in Atlanta one of the local news outlets (which owns the biggest TV station, AM radio station and the city newspaper) offered tickets to a Janet Jackson concert in exchange to anyone who turned in a firearm. During the 6:00 news they had an ecstatic reporter on live next to a line of people ready to participate and started interviewing them. Of the three people she interviewed one said that they just bought a derringer for about half of what the tickets would cost him, another said that they were trading in an old rusty firearm and the last one said that she was exchanging her grandmother's pistol for tickets (no indication if the grandmother was aware of this). The crestfallen reporter quickly cut the interviews short.

[Rational Gaze]

The anti-gun nuts never seem to realise that Switzerland exists. Switzerland mandates gun ownership for citizens, and yet has one of the lowest murder rates in the world.

[Jedidiah]

It would be interesting to have a rational discussion of gun control, confiscation, religion, or any other controversial subject we see here. Almost universally we see extreme statements to counter other extreme statements (I am guilty here as well as most posters).

[Teallaura]

The anti-gun nuts never seem to realise that Switzerland exists. Switzerland mandates gun ownership for citizens, and yet has one of the lowest murder rates in the world.

If Switzerland were my best argument for anything, I'd never argue it.

[rogue06]

If Switzerland were my best argument for anything, I'd never argue it.

Two words.

Swiss. Chocolate.

[Teallaura]

Two words.

Swiss. Chocolate.

Three words: you need glasses.


I admit, that's the first time you've ever mistaken me for Mossy...