new shooting: Newtown, Conn. details breaking

[midnight rambler]

To whom the correct response is: "Yeah, that is the present gun law, moron. You don't get to buy a gun without a full background check. Check your facts before 'shooting' your mouth off next time."

I'm thinking you missed that POS limey Piers Morgan the other night where he kept bringing up "40%* of gun sales (i.e. 'private sales' between individuals) are not subject to background checks."

What to expect:

1) 'Closing the *gun show loophole*' (in reality no such thing) whereby it will be made a FELONY to make ANY gun transaction which is not done via NICS (that's right, you cannot give one of your children or any other relative one of your guns 'off the books') - naturally as a matter of 'necessity' there will need to be a registry to keep track of all the guns being transferred.

(NOTE: this would NOT have precluded the Oregon mall shooter from doing what he did)

and 2) the terms 'mentally ill' and 'mentally deranged' will be expanded to include ANYONE who shows ANY interest whatsoever in those extremely evil high capacity guns which use detachable HIGH capacity magazines (if you want to defend yourself 'within your home' then a revolver is more than satisfactory).

*I'm relatively certain this figure is at least 3 times too high