Midnightrider wrote on 07/07/13 at 22:15:04:I really don't believe anyone would be killed over a parking spot, especially if they think the other driver might be armed.. Any nonfelon can go out and buy a $100 shotgun now if he wants to commit suicide. You still bring up SC but they have to go through Federal Gun checks like NC. Every state does. I can buy black guns in NC,are they legal in SC? A lot of states they're not. Those states have more gun crimes. The more gun laws a state has leaves the honest people sitting ducks. The elementary teachers and principles are being offered at no cost carry classes in NC. I bet a madman would think twice now about attacking a school. He wants to kill and taking out a couple of people isn't gonna do it. more than 2 or 3. He wants to be famous forever.
Crazies dont care ... gun laws not going to stop any of that, a $100 bullet will, they are first time shooters ... they wont have a criminal record. We may get em with a psych test, but can you imagine the squealing from the gun nuts and NRA when we try to subject people trying to buy a gun to a psych test. Worse yet when one guy who's been rejected by a psych panel from getting a gun cos he's nuts gets killed by someone else that got a gun illegally, can you imagine the screaming then ? I can.
The assumption about parking space murder is that you think they are thinking ... oooo maybe he has a gun, maybe he this or that ... if they did that. it wont be road "rage" it will just be road "anger" ... or road "impoliteness" they now bash each others cars ... one person could still be armed and shoot the other ...
States with gun laws have gun crimes cos they suck them from the neighboring states that dont have gun laws. If we had the same laws all the way across, there wont be any commuting crimnials ... they will be resident criminals instead. Today I'm gonna go to charlotte rob a convenience store and drive back to my hood ... will just be, today I'll rob a convenience store in belmont and save driving to charlotte cos those guys are as armed as belmont.
More gun laws a state has, while the next state has fewer ... that leaves honest people in that state sitting ducks. AKA the SC and TX effect. People buy in SC in legit stores with a legit ID, and since SC throws them away after the sale, they promptly sell it to their "associates" who drive em to NYC or DC and supply the criminals there.
That leaves the Good people in DC and NYC (are there any left ? I thought its all white collar criminals in both places) vulnerable to being killed by a SC gun.
Regional Gun laws dont work so well ... cos roads do. Since roads are nationwide - so should gun laws.
Cool.
Srinath.