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In reply to the discussion: Why anti-gun laws will never work in US [View all]billh58
(6,635 posts)You "know what you're talking about?" Horseshit Bubba. Here are just a couple of recent (2011, and not 10 years ago) articles which show that you're lying through your teeth:
"Under federal law, people with felony convictions forfeit their right to bear arms. Yet every year, thousands of felons across the country have those rights reinstated, often with little or no review. In several states, they include people convicted of violent crimes, including first-degree murder and manslaughter, an examination by The New York Times has found."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/felons-finding-it-easy-to-regain-gun-rights.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
"A handful of states have had such restoration laws on their books for some time, but with little notice, more than 20 states have passed similar measures since 2008. This surge can be traced to a law passed by Congress after the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech that was actually meant to make it harder for people with mental illness to get guns.
As a condition of its support for the measure, the National Rifle Association extracted a concession: the inclusion of a mechanism for restoring firearms rights to those who lost them for mental health reasons."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/us/03guns.html?pagewanted=all
And the NRA is squarely behind this travesty of justice, and violation of sanity. The VPC is at the forefront of combating the lies and bullshit spouted by people like you and your Gungeon dweller buddies.