Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Stephen King's comment on semi-automatics.. [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)shamash: .. one can hardly imagine any of the gun control crowd at DU caring what he says. He is by admission, someone who owns several guns and has for decades, so despite his protestations about the NRA he is clearly a "gun nut" trying to confuse the issue.
You have some weird ideas which are really misconceptions at best, cheap shots more likely imo.
Stephen King ..discourses at length about why guns are evil, despite owning 3 of them.
Shamash you need disabuse yourself from your misconception that owning a gun or 3 or even a few more, is some hypocritical disqualification to being for gun control. Steven King is evidently a sterling example, & shouldn't be held up to ridicule for supporting gun control. Rather he should be slammed back into your progun faces to show that responsible gun owners do not cower in fear of nra propaganda.
shamash: Much like Gabrielle Giffords and her ownership of weapons that would get her a mandatory jail sentence if she stepped into Connecticut with them and Michael "rights for me but not for thee" Bloomberg and his coterie of semi-auto equipped bodyguards
What spin; implying that giffords is hypocritical, when it's your hypocritical spin which does the injustice. It's illegal in some states for gays to get married. If YOU were to have a low blood alcohol content in one state you'd get a dui where not in another, doesn't necessarily make you a drunk driver.
And where do you get off repeating far right propaganda about Bloomberg, claiming his bodyguards have semi autos & new York city residents cannot?
The process for obtaining a handgun license in New York City is long (between 3 6 months), and compared to many other jurisdictions, rather expensive. Its not particularly difficult, but it is tedious and incredibly time consuming. It tests your patience, and there is a lot of bureaucracy to deal with... Every 90 days you can buy ONE handgun, pistol or revolver in the City of New York. http://newyorkcityguns.com/getting-a-nyc-handgun-permit/
Duh, that's because it's the largest city in America with 7 million, & you must expect delays to have proper checks. NYC also has a high standard of living, ie expensive to live there, if you don't like this don't move to NYC.
And I don't know of any NYC restrictions on buying conventional semi-auto rifles or longguns, other than registration & license.
The NYC proscriptions on carrying concealed handguns is in part because it has a population density of something like 25,000 people per square mile - ergo hundreds of thousands of residents carrying a pistol would increase theft & accidents & CRIME far more than in butte montana, and bottle up police resources better spent elsewhere.