The proposed stripping of the 2nd amendment through laws prohibiting the the rights of our citizens to bare arms are now stretching not only to guns, but to ammunition as you refer to your reply. The laws may not get all the guns off the streets, but some are now written that will make it difficult for those firearms to operate without ammunition.

The laws may limit the impact of some tradgeties such as we have seen in CO, but will primarily affect law abiding citizens who would never do such an act in the first place.

As you probably already know, I believe this law referred to in this article is a waste of time and thus demonstrates the dire need for a part-time legislature in CA.

As are machine guns and hand grenades — and I demand the right to open carry of each!

Never know when I might have to toss one of those “pineapples” at some SUV blocking my way at the local Walmart parking lot!

He has a point. If you read the 2nd Amendment and the Federalist Papers, they clearly say that.

But he didn’t did he?

Most bad guys can’t hit a bull in the ass with a barn door.

I’m one of the “poor underprivileged tenth person” crowd. Don’t need no gun. My Louisville Slugger bat will do just fine. But I’ll take taxpayer cash in lieu of gun.

My anti-gun views notwithstanding, I did get a chuckle out of that senior citizen in Ocala, FL a few days ago. Armed bandits tried to rob an “internet cafe” (a/k/a an online gambling house). He was sitting in the back. When the robbers turned their backs, he pulled out his licensed concealed carry handgun and shot at them (wounding but not life threatening). Of course, he might just as easily have caused the bad guys to shoot back and catch some customers in the crossfire.

Another sad item is that I’ll bet Phil Gramm doesn’t even own that many guns or shoot them much. But saying that stuff plays well to the crowd down there in Tejas and keeps that NRA money coming in, or going against your opponent.

But, as stated by my favorite congressman (and there are so many great ones to choose from), Louie Gohmert, events like Aurora can be chalked up to “attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.” Gawd, one of my best friends is next door neighbor to Louie in Tyler, TX. Says he’s not to bright, but a nice guy. Votes for him.

I suggest a government program paid for by your tax dollars and mine.

You can thank folks like Phil “I have as many guns as I need, but I don’t have as many guns as I want.” Gramm for that sad fact.

Well, in the case of Aurora, the Glocks, shotgun, AR, large clip and 6,000 rounds of ammo were all purchased legally. Yes, a 24-year old student can purchase 6,000 rounds of ammo, no questions asked! I wonder how the firearms dealers who sold the stuff to that kid feel today. How much does it cost to buy 6,000 rounds anyway?

The guns that killed the four cops in Oakland and that kill people in Oakland and Richmond nearly every day most likely started out as a legal sale in Georgia or other states with lax resale laws. The party who bought them legally (probably in quantity) then sold them to a middle man who trafficked them illegally into California.

In this age of modern technology, we should have the ability to electronically and instantaneously trace every gun used in a crime back to the parties who originally sold and bought the gun and every change of hands from that point. The last documented buyer should have civil liability, unless the gun was stolen under circumstances that buyer could not have reasonably prevented.

I’d be interested to know what percentage of the AR-type weapons in circulation and related ammo and large clips are possessed by criminals vs by legal and sane owners.

Wlth millions of new guns added every year to the hundred of millions already in circulation, the day is not far away when the stuff we see in Oakland and Richmond every day spreads like cancer to Walnut Creek, Lamorinda, Danville, Dublin etc.