[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I can legally purchase one morning, noon, and night on the same day. I can legally purchase dozens on the same day. What on earth are you talking about?







What about folks who already own firearms? Or baseball bats? Or kitchen knives? Should there be a waiting period on axe handles? Ball peen hammers?







One guy in the entire firearms industry, and as soon as he died, Jr. reversed the company's position.







To what degree would they have to be suffering to be disqualified?



My father in law served in WWII. He literally walked across North Africa chasing Rommel's army. Then then crossed the Mediterranean into Sicily and his unit fought at Anzio.



For over 30 years after he got home he would periodically wake up in the middle of the night screaming and flailing. Back then, it was "shell shocked" rather than "PTSD". Many of his generation who served suffered from it.



My own dad served in Korea. Same thing, but not as bad as my father in law had it. Us kids could hear him, and then hear my mom trying to calm him down. He died at 50 years old and never did get over it.



Men of their generation, in spite of that, owned firearms and never harmed a soul. Would never consider it. Millions of men of that generation.







What would this accomplish? I'm hard pressed to come up with anything at all that this would accomplish towards a reduction in gun violence.







In most cases, these collections are merely passed on to their heirs. If their heirs don't want them, they get sold at an estate sale or something.



And what do you mean "unnecessarily accumulated"?



Boy, you know, you started out saying "I like common sense" and then very convincingly demonstrated otherwise. Nothing you posted makes any sense whatsoever.

I agree 100% with Jeff. The original post is just nucking futz.