Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumFacebook closed its gun-sale loopholes. What about the rest of the social web?
Im a parent, so of course that scares me. And not just as the mother who runs Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, who wonders how to help stop the next Sandy Hook tragedy. Im a parent who, like most others, knows that even plugged-in teenagers can tire of Facebook for the next best thing online.
So of course I was gratified that Facebook and its photo-sharing subsidiary Instagram responded to our campaign and agreed last week to prevent potentially deadly gun sales with no background checks on their platforms. Because theres a big problem when children can buy guns on the same sites where they like photos and chat with friends.
But Facebook and Instagram arent the only places on the internet where minors and criminals turn to find guns for sale without background checks. In fact, research by our parent organization at Mayors Against Illegal Guns has shown that plenty of online gun buyers 1 out of 30 on Armslist.com possess criminal records that federally prohibit them from owning firearms.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/facebook-gun-sale-loopholes-social-media
rrneck
(17,671 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)violating the Gun Control Act? Two counts, interstate sale without using an FFL and selling to a minor. If not, why not?
I doubt the validity of MAIG's estimate.
HALO141
(911 posts)The fact that the atricle was written by shannon watts we could have saved ourselves the time of reading any of it and simply moved on. I doubt she's uttered an honest word her entire life.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Her screed also got pretty well sliced, diced and julienned elsewhere in the comments
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)simply not worth reading obvious propaganda. She is a PR flack doing her job for Bloomberg just like she did for Monsanto..
HALO141
(911 posts)Facebook did a whole bunch a nuthin. They said they'd remind people what the law is regarding interstate sales, remove blatent violations of that law and keep an eye out. All that was pretty much their policy to begin with. Calling that a "victory" is like me claiming responsibily for preventing asteroids from falling on my neighborhood.
The fact that this is all they have to crow about say a whole lot more about the "success" of her PR group than anything else.
uncommonlink
(261 posts)1. She claims that the back ground checks bill was blocked from getting a full vote, when in fact, that's not the case, the full Senate did vote on it and it didn't reach the 60 vote threshold to prevent a filibuster.
2. She claims that because of her group, Starbucks has changed it's open carry policy within their stores, when in fact, Starbucks asks it's customers not to open carry, but they won't ask anyone to leave or refuse to serve them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/business/starbucks-seeks-to-keep-guns-out-of-its-cofee-shops.html?_r=0
Otherwise, I agree with her, back ground checks on all firearms is a good goal to work for.
ileus
(15,396 posts)My p229 for a p220
Great trade with a good guy, neither of us were hurt in the deal. Made the trade on our way to Bristol and he had my old pistol posted before we could get out of the race 3 hours later.
I ended up getting rid of the 229 the same way I picked it up 3 or 4 years ago.
Of course now that I'm 40less I have to start looking for a replacement, I have over a thousand rounds of 40 with no distribution device. Hopefully Facebook will come through again.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)And are, in fact, a subsidiary, of the Bloomberg funded MAIG.
I wonder what income she derives from this relationship?
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)what Voxpop Public Relations LLC, the firm she started after leaving Monsanto as their head PR flack, charges its clients.