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populistdriven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-22-07 10:01 AM
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Gun safeguards must improve, enthusiasts say
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The article says that the VT killer could have been red flagged and prevented from buying a gun since a judge declared Cho a danger to others in late 2005 and a law that's been on books since 1994 could have stopped him....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/22/GUNSHOW.TMP

It is a pretty good article overall but then I got to this quote:

Shopping at the gun show Saturday with his 7-year-old granddaughter, former Concord police Officer Jon Rowan doubted new gun laws would deter crime. "If you take the guns from the good people, all who will have them will be the bad people," he said. "Somehow, they'll find them."

So I put together the Cops perspective in MSPaint:



Will it ever be possible to us to have a conversation about gun control as adults?
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