Pat Oliphant for April 24, 2013

I think Oliphant is being too kind to the NRA and the politicians who are being paid to support them…

WOW, It’s 7:18 PM. These are the only comments? I guess the trolls are running scared!

I think you can still get pressure cookers at Wal-Mart without a background check.

And you did this during a gun show? A while back I was tempted to buy a Desret Eagle (I have a gun permit my glock and a concealed weapons license) with the guy telling me I can have it that same day, but paying $1,200 for a used Eagle was too rich for my blood. That’s why I ran off with a Model 870 instead ($400). You could not imagine the amount of people I saw walking out with cases of guns that day. I went to the Miami Gun Show last year. I might go again this year. Hopefully that gun is at a better price.

So should we all. Well said, Sir!

Interesting to see people like Richard Russell and ScottPM try to claim that bombs are not “arms”. It seems they’re unaware of terms like “the arms race”, or “arms dealers”, both of which include a heck of a lot more than handguns. Richard says he can’t find the word “bomb” in the Constitution…how about “assault rifle” or “machine gun”, Richard? Are they in there?I’ve tried in the past to point out that the authors of the Second Amendment could only have thought about single-shot muskets and pistols (maybe even cannons) that had to be loaded and primed with each shot, but the NRA-types quickly told me that the term “arms” had to be expanded with the times, using the analogy that freedom of speech now includes media unimagined in the 1700s. So how come all of a sudden bombs are no longer “arms”?“Missiles, bombs hawked at massive arms trade show” — http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/04/world/meast/vice-sofexhttp://tinyurl.com/aasekajhttp://www.gocomics.com/stevebenson/2013/04/23/?view=full

Granted. Me, too. But where did you purchase them? If through a licensed gun dealer, then of course you filled out forms. Those people do it right. But through a private sale or at a gun show? No terribly likely, and that’s what the bill before the Senate was supposed to correct.

My father-in-law had several guns. When he died, my MIL kept one rifle, and handed out all the others to her kids and grandkids. As much as I love my nephews, neither are the responsible type.

Or, better yet, do as the bombers did… simply kill someone and take theirs…. we’re told to keep them safe… but wait, this gun was taken from a law enforcement officer…