More on "reasonable" gun laws.

[one-eyed fat man]

43. Just the type of purchaser the law IMO should be careful about licensing.

Yes, you don't want them to actually go after the criminals. If they didn't practice "catch and release" they would soon run out of thugs to chase. What would all those in industrial prison complex do then?

Girlfriend is moving out of place where she lived with boyfriend, a Crips member with a very long rap sheet. He attacks her, tries to throw her from a second floor landing. She speeds away while he fires five shots at her from a sawed-off shotgun. She reports situation to police, adding that boyfriend might be staying at the house of his stepmother.

Results in an interesting Fourth Amendment case

Messerschmidt v. Millender

To me, there is one startling passage..;. but then this case did come out of California. Boyfriend had been arrested 31 times, including three times for assault with a deadly weapon, three times for other violent offenses, and nine times for firearm offenses. And he's out on the street....

Gun control laws have never been about crime.

"No, we're not looking at how to control criminals ... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns."

-U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, 1993


"I'm not interested in getting a bill that deals with airport security... all I want to do is get at plastic guns."

-U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, 1993


"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns."

-U.S. Senator. Howard Metzenbaum, 1994