DCist: Gun Sales to Start in D.C. on Sept. 9

monkeyrotica

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:09:38 -0500

Gunsale-pocalypse?

ClevelandRocks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:16:25 -0500

Are light sabres legal yet?

IMGoph

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:02:31 -0500

politburo: thanks, that really made me laugh! i'm not advocating this at all. i'm just saying that this is where the pro-gun logic leads. me personally, i'd like to see them all melted down into a monument to our past obsession with violence. but that's just my hippy dippy liberal ass talking... :)

Politburo

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:04:40 -0500

"if it's such an important, inalienable right, then everyone should be able to get a gun without impediments, legal or otherwise." That's where you're losing me.. is this some sort of trick? Has the real IMGoph been replaced with Folgers Crystals?

erahk0

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:24 -0500

I dunno, i was taught that the Constitution just guarantees the right to own a gun and that the government will not interfere with that right of ownership (like take the gun away). Maybe the government could establish a lend/lease program.

IMGoph

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:33:55 -0500

politburo: the logic i was talking about what the right to be armed. if it's such an important, inalienable right, then everyone should be able to get a gun without impediments, legal or otherwise. since poor people have the impediment of money, the government should give them vouchers to buy guns, so everyone can be armed. QED

Politburo

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:17:37 -0500

IMGoph: That's where what logic takes you?

monkeyrotica

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:08:09 -0500

I don't think the GOP has yet met a problem that tax cuts couldn't "solve." Just sayin.

IMGoph

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:03:12 -0500

i didn't say driving is a right ccunning, i said that others here have argued that it is a privilege.

stmove

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:55:03 -0500

Product News Alert: The DC Commemorative “build your own” gun; will come in both the original $19.99 "guaranteed to shoot em' once" edition, and the NEW $21.99 "you can smoke anything that burns out of it" edition, for those hunters out there with glaucoma, and you scared little safety nuts who need to smoke more something to keep that paranoia level up. Just announced: It will also be sold with my new memoir titled “how to stop a mugging by shooting the bastard with your homemade gun” (Introduction by Gov. Palin).

ccunning

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:39:20 -0500

@IMGoph Wait...what? Who said driving is a right? Free Speech is a right, but that does not mean you have to be given a platform to speak nationally.

IMGoph

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:24:24 -0500

in all honestly, doesn't it seem like, since people argue that owning a firearm is a right and not a privilege (like driving, apparently), that someone will eventually file a suit in order to guarantee that those who can't afford a firearm will be able to purchase one with a government subsidy. i mean, personally, i think that's absolutely ridiculous, but that's where the logic takes you if you keep following it to the end...

erahk0

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:59:31 -0500

"is it next to a liquor store" ... if not then the high school! Maybe!

monkeyrotica

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:43:16 -0500

Have it double as a bong and I'll take two please. For medicinal purposes only, off course. Otherwise, I might go blinder and not hit my target!

stmove

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:35:50 -0500

@ bagdaddy08- I think there was some sarcasm there which your earnest god fearing ear could not pick up on. Everyone knows the poor have plenty guns, they beeze the ones pointing them at us all the time, right? Besides as soon as the paint dries on my sign, I will be selling DC special homemade guns for the ultra low price of $19.99 or $6.99 in three easy payments. My product will feature genuine lead pipe chamber, hand carved wooden handle, and I will even through in a guaranteed to fire in the right direction bullet.

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:12:31 -0500

Best part about all this: Sykes used to work for MPD approving firearms dealer licenses.

registeringsucks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:11:19 -0500

In Anacostia? Shocking. Let me guess... is it next to a liquor store?

erahk0

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:02:45 -0500

Why can't the MPD Amnesty program donate or offer discounts to those in need?

baghdaddy2008

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:49:56 -0500

Oh, here we go. Naturally, taxpayers should subsidize the cost of a firearm for the poor. After all, it is the duty of everyone in the country to try and equalize the society because it's unfair for two people to be of unequal stature. Won't you communists please shut up? Besides, the poor are significantly more likely to have had these now-legal weapons for years, using them to commit crimes and steal from you.

monkeyrotica

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:08:44 -0500

Thank goodness only people who can afford $300-plus for a firearm and another $125 transfer fee will be allowed to defend themselves in DC. I guess poor people are stuck using rocks and harsh language.