I asked him that given we have restrictive gun laws in NYC why is there so much gun violence? He pointed out his window to the Hudson and George Washington Bridge and said “we can’t stop the guns coming in from other states”.

You are 100% correct. Common sense national guns are essential.

See post 2.

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Virginia has a 3 gun rule again from what I can find.


The gunshotos in Smithfield were the main source from what I understand. Amtrak put in a stop at the James River Bridge in Newport News. Taxis (pre Uber) would line up knowing when the train was coming by. Take people over to the gun shops and back to pick up the the train going back north. DC Philly NYC Boston Guns were from Virginia. Bags of guns before there was a 3 gun rule but now.... you just take more people.

So you take 4 people down in a car or via train.

All expenses included who can’t lose money onstage trip. You have a clean unregistered gun (handgun mostly) for sale. Cha-Ching KA-BOOM.

Private sales are susceptible to background checks but the guns aren’t registered so…

a serious felony to buy a gun outside of your state of residence.
Any gun purchased from another state or online has to be transferred through a licensed FFL. You can't even cross a state line to buy from a private seller. The penalty is up to 15 years in prison and a 250 thousand dollar fine. It goes up to 25 years if the gun is used in a crime. No FFL with a gun shop will risk that.

Have you heard or read of it happening.
Every firearms case starts with an illegal purchase somewhere down the line.
And yet nothing happens to the illegal purchasers.

of googling will show you that this simply isn't true.

and i expect trump wants to reduce threats to his donors

bad news, trump consolidates power with fewer guns opposing.

I am not sure how they would take that maneuver, even with his owners demanding that he do something of the kind.

It would be interesting to see how it plays out.

it would give me great joy if trump learned which side is actually violent the hard way.

That sounds interesting. I might look into Hawaii.

But Hawaii is always very close to the top every year for fewest gun deaths. I'm sure you get the point.

#GOPGunsOverPeople

Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island all have lower gun crime rates than Hawaii.

But Hawaii is always very close to the top every year for fewest gun deaths. I'm sure you get the point.

was that they have low gun crime because you can't drive there

It's one of the lowest, certainly on the bottom 5 states in gun deaths and violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_death_and_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

But, your point was that Hawaii has the *lowest* gun crime rate, which it does not, because guns can't be driven across State lines by vehicle in to Hawaii. The statistics prove your claim to be untrue. Do you understand what I'm saying?

I wrote my OP from memory of this established fact:

Hawaii has had the lowest overall gun death rate in the U.S. in several specific years, including 2014, 2017, and 2020. It consistently ranks among the top five states with the lowest gun death rates annually. While Hawaii often has one of the lowest total rates, it is sometimes surpassed for the absolute lowest spot by states like Massachusetts or Rhode Island, depending on the specific year and data analysis

almost any amendment to the Constitution. They can allow a felon to become a candidate for president or to become a felon President, deny women the right to do with their own body as they please, strike, increase or lessen voting eligibility for non whites, allow a president immunity supposedly only on Executive Orders that are OFFICIAL, fast track preferred cases, overturn decisions that have stood for years, allow decisions favorable to businesses but not the people, base decisions on laws from 16th century English Rules, claim that corporations are people, allow a president to kidnap and deport people without due process (that pesky Constitution thingy) to countries that have no problem torturing or killing deportees, ok bribes to officials, yet find inviolable, unchallengeable and even sacred one amendment that is quite clear in its 200 plus years of existence.

According to this TV Court, there should only be one old Amendment - Number two.
And no new ones, just partisan rulings at their whim based on personal bias.

Be a dame shame if that Amendment came back to haunt a President, Congress person, Corporate Entity (like a Health care CEO?) or even a Supreme Court Justice or a member of their family. Be a shame that could have been prevented.

A great deal of people like the idea that they can own a gun. There is the hunting aspect--the hunting seasons in Michigan are a big deal. And so is the idea that people feel like they are safer owning a gun. Even though most people who own guns for personal protection are not physically or mentally prepared to use a gun in self defense. The mass shootings just make this group double down on their feelings that they are better off with a gun. They have these day-dreams of grandeur where they swoop in with their gun and save hundreds of people by taking out a crazed shooter. I'm not kidding.

I'm pretty certain we've lost the issue for now. I'm almost 56 and don't own a gun. I know plenty of people who own and carry guns. And I've considered getting one, mostly because I live among a number of Trump loving rednecks. But having a gun would be one more thing to deal with. I'm at a point in my life where I want less things to deal with. Also, the Trump loving rednecks are mostly loud mouthed cowards (just like Trump).