Mentally Disturbed Purchasing Firearms

No, it didn’t. And what you are talking about aren’t “gun regs”. They are 4th and 5th Amendment rights.

If you want to take somebody’s rights away, follow due process.

Stop. Regulation isn’t taking your rights away. Otherwise we wouldn’t have laws.

Banning is. Confiscating is. Does every American have the right to keep and bear arms?

A weapon with no trigger finger behind it kills people?

And someone deranged and with a grudge can’t find a knife?

Or run down civilians, as recently in Toronto, or even just one person, as in his former girlfriend or boss?

Can’t agree.

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Thanks, Sneaky!

Directly?

Probably nothing.

But to just about anyone, much less a mentally disturbed man like Christopher O’Kroley, punishment from local misdemeanor to federal felony, which includes everything from suspension of driver’s licenses to criminal penalties that show up in a background check and may make it difficult for them when seeking employment, they may provide incentive to harm another.

Failure to pay is a crime on some level on its own, and O’Kroley’s past with mental health issues, IMO, he shouldn’t have been allowed to purchase a firearm. But unlike gun control advocates, I think he would have been able to kill his intended target even without a firearm.

Who’s banning and confiscating?

California, Colorado, NY, NJ, IL off the top of my head. All have instituted bans and at least three of them are confiscating banned firearms.
Registration makes it very easy for them to do so.

Hawaii is another one

To cite one example of a state that bans, guns are still readily available in California. If certain guns are banned, that’s not an infringement. You still have other choices. __

Assault weapon ban anyone?

No you don’t have the right to any and all arms that exist.

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If you aren’t allowed to vote in certain elections…
If certain religions are banned…
If certain words are banned…

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Assault weapon-like ban.

OK.

What other ban should be proposed?

No more knives on a butcher block for everyone from the chefs among us to those, well, more nefarious sorts?

How about cutlery shops, which may still have sharpeners for those butchers’ knives? Could be anyone looking for a knife sharpener from the kosher butcher to someone stalking his old girlfriend or boss.

Can we all drive around in tiny cars like the Cooper? The larger models may be used for more destructive purposes like driving into a crowd.

Where do proposed weapons bans end?

The dictionary and our founding fathers disagree with you. To in any way encroach upon our right to keep and bear is by definition infringing on it.

I choose not to live there. :grin:

As has been explained and adjudicated about a billion times, no right is absolute. Your guns for everyone attitude is precisely the kind of thinking that gets 11,000 people killed in this country alone every year.

Please cite a single instance in which I have ever suggested everyone should be armed.

The fact is the word infringement is and was at the time clearly defined and our rights absolutely are and have been repeatedly infringed.

Great. Maybe California will hold a parade. :slight_smile: