Let's flesh this one out a bit, what do you say? Being a convicted felon and wanting a gun because under the protection of the 2nd Amendment it is his god-given right, Eddie Lee Carr sent his live-in girlfriend Laqinda Modique, to buy a gun.
Now, Laqinda, not being the type to do things by the book, went to her co-worker who, somehow had never sustained a felony conviction and owned a bunch of guns. She bought one from him in a perfectly legal private transaction.Investigators determined Modique had recently purchased the firearm, and Carr had removed it from a safe this morning, loaded it, and placed it in a drawer in the bedroom.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The moral of the story is all guns start out legally owned by someone, including the countless weapons in the hands of criminals today. Those legal gun owners obviously need help in preventing the flow.
People often ask how would registration and licinsing prevent gun violence. Well this is an example of exactly how it would.
What do you think? Please leave a comment.
"While legitimate DGU stories are as rare as hen's teeth, the ones about kids finding a gun and killing themselves are almost daily fare."
ReplyDeleteWhile kids finding a gun and killing themselves is tragic and avoidable, it is really quite rare compared to DGUs. If you want to be honest about that I bet I could easily produce 10 DGU stories for every one of these tragic events without trying very hard.
"Now, Laqinda, not being the type to do things by the book, went to her co-worker who, somehow had never sustained a felony conviction and owned a bunch of guns. She bought one from him in a perfectly legal private transaction."
Wrong. Not perfectly legal at all. She was buying the gun for a prohibited person which is a crime and a straw purchase.
"People often ask how would registration and licinsing prevent gun violence. Well this is an example of exactly how it would."
How would licensing and registration stopped this? Do you think the prohibited boyfriend would register his new illegally acquired gun? Had the seller registered the gun would that have stopped him from selling it? You said that the straw buyer was not a prohibited person so why could she not have been licensed?
Now, of course the linked story mentioned nothing about how and who the straw purchase was made from so where did you get this whole co-worker kitchen table gun deal nonsense? How do you know that she did not purchase the gun from a gun store, complete the paperwork including the required registration? For that matter, how do you know that she even has a job to have a co-worker that illegally sells guns all day?
Oh, because that would show how registration would not prevented this which is contrary to your thesis that registration would prevent this.
Do you not understand why many (not all) gun owners oppose firearms licensing and registration?
ReplyDeleteThe post-Katrina gun grab---where LEO used sales records to ID gun owners for confiscatory "visits" from the National Guard---removed a lot of doubt in many owners minds re: the inadvisability of a gun registration scheme.
It moved their concerns out of the realm of paranoia. You may see Katrina as an anomaly or justifiable policing. They see it as a warning and a frightening, sudden and unjustifiable loss of Second Amendment rights. Fair enough?
More generally, you seem to believe that "common sense" gun control laws are needed because there are statistically irrelevant incidents where bad things happen under current laws.
Anecdotal evidence is not a sound basis for sound public policy.
Jeebus, RF. You accuse us of posting anecdotal info--but you have no problem at all posting outright baloney.
ReplyDeletePost-Katrina, they didn't use sales records--they went door to door. And with good reason.
And what was the "good reason" Jade?
ReplyDeleteFWM, You're 10 to 1 challenge seem odd to me. You probably read the same news sources I do. When Clayton was doing his thing, he had folks like you all over the country scouring local and regional outlets for all the things that don't make it nationally. Even so he published about 1,000 a year. I'm seeing nearly that many without even trying.
ReplyDeleteBe honest, on CNN and Google and Yahoo and the like, what are you seeing more of?
Robert, I can't even believe you're talking about Katrina. The same guys who are paranoid now were paranoid before that flimsy excuse ever happened.
I noticed you're saying "they." Are you one of them? Did your paranoia change into valid and rational concerns after Katrina?