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Old 03-03-2015, 08:37 PM
 
Location: Louisiana
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Can just anyone buy a gun without a permit, gun safety classes, or a background check?
Yes, yes and no.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:40 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Probably should start adding a waiting period to buy meth, that will definatly stop people from using it.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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How do you know that a person didn't change their mind to commit a murder after cooling off for a couple days?

How do you know that a waiting period didn't buy time for an abused spouse to flee to safety?
How do you know that they did?
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Probably should start adding a waiting period to buy meth, that will definatly stop people from using it.
You are equating owning a firearm with abusing methamphetamine?
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Iowa, USA
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Wait for the murderous rage inside someones heart to go away?
But how would that help? Let's be reasonable, if someone's murderous rage is so extreme, they'll kill someone with just about anything they can find within a 10 foot radius of them. If someone is so unstable that old Betty says something snide at church, do you think psycho Dave is gonna head to his local gun store and pick out a gun? No, he'll just pick up the nearest crucifix and bludgeon her head in.

And if someone does go and buy a gun, odds are even without the waiting period that's enough time to allow someone to at least partially cool off, unless the argument that caused them distressed happened in a gun store's parking lot. Meaning if they go out and buy a gun, the murder will have been at least partially premeditated, so logically, the waiting period won't make a huge difference.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Can just anyone buy a gun without a permit, gun safety classes, or a background check?
Yes.

Background checks never prevented a crime.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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How do you know that they did?
Because they were not shot.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:44 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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You are equating owning a firearm with abusing methamphetamine?
One of the two is completly illegal and is even more accessible than the other.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Because they were not shot.
billions of people were not shot. But not because of a waiting period.

Your logic is juvenile.
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Old 03-03-2015, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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I don't know. Background checks maybe. Check for history of mental illness, felony record, non-citizen, etc....

Is that what happens when people without licenses buy and trade guns out of car trunks?
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