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Reverse psychology? If he's agin it, Pubs are for it.... ** -- aint2Hokie4me 10/05/2017 1:53PM It probably is the single best way to get trump to support it ** -- KCHoo 10/05/2017 1:55PM Forget the past. Who here is against banning them now? ** -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 11:19AM Hatch, Rubio and another GOPer were quoted -- 81_Hokie 10/05/2017 12:12PM It wouldn't surprise me a bit if such a ban goes through. Then we can -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 12:17PM Who gives a fuck if we've never heard of it? We've heard and seen the type -- hooshouse 10/05/2017 12:33PM Simmer down House. I have no issue with a ban on those and even think it -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 12:53PM Seems Paddock ammased his arsenal legally. Would he have bump stocks if -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 12:58PM If they outlaw bump stocks, only outlaws will have bump stocks. Bump -- Hoo TV 10/05/2017 2:21PM Sure...but I suspect a motivated machine shop could produce one ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 11:53AM Great argument for a lawless society. ** -- Chuck Taylor 10/05/2017 1:34PM You don't need one to bump fire most semi-automatics. -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 12:46PM Yet sales are going briskly for manufactured bump stocks this week. -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 1:20PM GOP congress moving quickly to pass legislation to crack down on bump stock -- Hoo TV 10/05/2017 2:16PM And this surprises you? It's unlikely that the law with include -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 1:41PM Surprises me? I guess it shouldn't. Disheartens me, yes. -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 1:47PM Isn't EVERY law simply a deterrant? ** -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 12:43PM Yes, if murder wasn't illegal it would be rampant. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:23PM A motivated person could also create a car bomb. But we don't -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 12:14PM Sure but I suspect a motivated meth dealer could cook some ** -- Beerman 10/05/2017 11:57AM Only really need a programmed 3D printer or CNC machine. ** -- SchmHoo 10/05/2017 11:57AM I talked to my ESL teacher. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:42PM Couldn't leave it alone, I see. -- SchmHoo 10/05/2017 1:15PM I wasn't wrong. More than one bullet does not leave the chamber -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:20PM Doesn't technically make it auto, but it effectively does. And technically -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 1:37PM NRA apparently agrees with you ** -- KCHoo 10/05/2017 2:29PM Wrong. Still a semi auto. One pull, one round. -- 25Charlie 10/05/2017 1:43PM Are you saying it doesn't effectively? ** -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 1:46PM Yeah, but I never debated that. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:43PM Are you serious? I could write a law in 10 seconds that would take care of -- LAHOOters 10/05/2017 1:50PM That is extremely vague... -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:52PM Why is that even a "but." What relevance does it have to his comment? ** -- KCHoo 10/05/2017 11:56AM OK KC...sure, without ifs, ands, or buts. Problem solved. ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 12:02PM Hold on. You claim the Muslim was coming for your guns and accessories and -- hooshouse 10/05/2017 10:39AM Seriously. He's coming for their guns until he isn't :) ** -- Beerman 10/05/2017 10:53AM I don't own any guns...sorry to dissapoint...I only cling to my religion ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 10:52AM The ignorant always do. ** -- Hoocinogenic 10/05/2017 5:45PM I thought you clung to life's proverbial empty trophy case? ** -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 11:07AM Only if this is a trophy case (pic) -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 11:22AM The same reason we won't ban them now. Face it the NRA and the terrorists -- Lazarus 10/05/2017 10:17AM I saw a guy with a gun in his holster while carrying an infant this weekend -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 10:41AM You can tell a lot about the person by how the firearm is carried -- 757 10/05/2017 12:37PM Thanks for that perspective ** -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 12:52PM You were scared of a man holding a baby? ** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:02PM Interesting. I hate guns and have no desire to be around them, but I too -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 11:05AM I would think more people would be concerned about concealed carry than -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 11:53AM Yep. But I'm even less worried about legal concealed carry. Those require -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 12:12PM Anyone who isn't a cop or security guard and feels the need to carry a gun -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 1:38PM Meh. It's extremely easy to get a concealed carry permit...at least in VA. -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 12:29PM IMHO, civilians who open carry are mostly doing it to troll others -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 11:28AM I know a disabled man who wears one. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:02PM While I understand that thought, and FTR despite living in Trumplandia and -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 12:00PM I do think it's different in places like west Texas or Montana where guns -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 12:27PM Yeah the open carry long gun assholes are definitely trolling ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 10/05/2017 1:17PM I know a cop is trained to use a gun -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 11:15AM FTR wasn't criticizing how you felt, especially since it was my initial -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 11:44AM Nuts and terrorists are equally free to buy holsters -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 11:11AM Lots of terrorists open carry in restaurants... ** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:12PM And the Columbine kids routinely open carried at Shoney's. ** -- Hoodafan 10/05/2017 12:26PM I know right. Can you believe that crap? ** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:27PM I bet the discussion would be very different right now if the shooter -- HoosWillWin 10/05/2017 10:34AM Really? Like after the Dallas BLM Shooting? ** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:13PM Everything is racist. Yeah. ** -- Hokieesith 10/05/2017 10:52AM If only he'd been a Mohhamad? You wouldn't hear a bunch of GOP cowards -- Lazarus 10/05/2017 10:46AM Oh they'd want action all right. Not-a-ban Muslim ban action! ** -- Beerman 10/05/2017 10:52AM Talk about a narrative change...evidently the turd had previously tried to -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 10:50AM Looks like it was a music festival, not a rap concert -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 11:37AM So all that proves is that he didn't do it because he hates country music ** -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 10:59AM It actually proves nothing. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:15PM I can think of no better places to be armed than bars or churches. :D** -- Seattle .Hoo 10/05/2017 10:23AM Seattle, another reason, why we -- or most of us -- read all your posts. +1 ** -- Lazarus 10/05/2017 10:26AM Because they likely were unaware of the entire issue -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 10:10AM Everyone on TV is an expert on bumpstocks now. -- 25Charlie 10/05/2017 11:11AM Really? Posters here swore up and down that it was only one trigger pull -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:24PM Not sure what you'e talking about -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 12:57PM So the trigger is being pulled for every discharge? ** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:58PM Yeah, but the device uses the recoil of the weapon itself to do it -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 1:02PM Never debated that. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:06PM Pull the trigger or push the stock. 1 = 1 -- 25Charlie 10/05/2017 1:31PM Exactly. If anything it will decrease accuracy. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:35PM Yep. I watched a video a while back with a competition shooter going up -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 2:19PM Yet another reason for them to be illegal -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 2:34PM I don't recall. Competition shooters are amazing, though. Some -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 2:37PM Same rate of fire with or without bumpstock ** -- 25Charlie 10/05/2017 1:38PM Yeah, I know. Debated that yesterday. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:45PM Maybe - but I doubt it and certainly not for long -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 1:44PM Dexterity. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:48PM Still not sure what your point is -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 1:28PM I never said they should be legal. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:34PM Give me a day or so and I could come up with the wording -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 1:38PM Cool, I would honestly like to see it. -- hoothat 10/05/2017 1:46PM Same here. Got my first real fun at age 10. -- Shenhoo 10/05/2017 10:58AM 10 for me, too; bolt-action single-shot .22 from my grandfather -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 11:11AM I grew up really poor on the national forest boundary. -- Shenhoo 10/05/2017 11:14AM Re: I grew up really poor on the national forest boundary. -- Old Dorms Rule! 10/05/2017 1:59PM We are a republic, not a monarchy........for starters. -- Chuck Taylor 10/05/2017 10:05AM So wait a minute...the administration took on Healthcare and the financial -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 10:16AM Your question was, why didn't Obama ban bump stocks, was it not? -- Chuck Taylor 10/05/2017 10:28AM That's the accessory du jour (actually all week)...but it proves symbolic -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 10:32AM It proves you don't understand or want to understand................... -- Chuck Taylor 10/05/2017 10:55AM Wow. You're doubling down on this nonsense. No CONGRESS -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 10:24AM Because everything is always the Dems' fault? ** -- Beerman 10/05/2017 09:49AM Now isn't the time to politicize this. Thoughts and prayers. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 10/05/2017 09:29AM I realize it is a joke, but the really ironic thing is that the right -- HoosWillWin 10/05/2017 10:14AM Your gal Hillary broke that seal on day one ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 09:32AM Hillary? Oh yeah. Didn't she run for President one time and lose? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 10/05/2017 09:50AM Just once? :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 09:51AM In the before time. In the long long ago. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 10/05/2017 10:25AM Maybe you should take some time off...... ** -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 09:36AM The answer is obvious and sad. Obama didn't want to take on the NRA. -- graycalhoo 10/05/2017 09:23AM I don't think that is true. -- DanTheFan 10/05/2017 09:36AM While I think your final point has merit, in this case -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 09:35AM If only BO had had a filibuster-proof majority in Congress... ** -- Sabremetrician 10/05/2017 10:17AM Yes. If only. -- DanTheFan 10/05/2017 5:09PM You don't think he tried? -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 09:34AM No, he didn't try hard enough. Obama could have used his bully pulpit a -- graycalhoo 10/05/2017 09:39AM I agree. I also agree that you have to spend your political capital on -- Seattle .Hoo 10/05/2017 10:21AM Do you think bump stocks should be legal? Wasn't this guy's -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 09:03AM Do you think this guy wouldn't have used them had they been illegal? -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 09:42AM And no, I think he wouldn't have used them BECAUSE they're -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 10:19AM Should there be virtually no restrictions on anyone possessing the level of -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 10:01AM Short of banning all semi-automatic weapons, there's really -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 10:05AM Can't completely eliminate risk is such a bogus argument. You can't -- 81_Hokie 10/05/2017 11:17AM It not that you can't eliminate all the risk, it's that a ban won't -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 11:51AM Bait and switch... you said above that "not a way to completely eliminate -- 81_Hokie 10/05/2017 5:20PM As I said, it's window dressing. Go ahead and ban them. Feel good -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 5:25PM Exactly. Reactionaries wanting to fix something -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:27PM That's where I am, but I'm afraid you're right that it's unrealistic for -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 10:08AM Ever is a long time as demographics change -- KCHoo 10/05/2017 1:06PM Sure, ban anything over 10. It's window dressing and won't really -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 10:29AM Which is why I get back to semi-auto rifles. I'm not as concerned -- BocaHoo91 10/05/2017 10:41AM I'm not a fan of such registries, but I believe they are inevitable. I -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 10:53AM I'm equally curious as to why he didn't overturn Heller. -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 09:00AM I don't get where you are going with this. -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 08:41AM Because Breitbart and Kellyanne Conway said it. -- DanTheFan 10/05/2017 09:18AM Definitely a talking point to obsfucate that the current admin can take -- THECZAR 10/05/2017 09:35AM So it is not true because since it was not mentioned in one of the Pravdas? ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 09:31AM It is my RIGHT to be able to shoot 432 deer in under 5 minutes ** -- FfxStationHokie 10/05/2017 08:55AM In 2010 the Dems held all the cards (both houses and POTUS)...and now the -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 08:46AM Nice strawman. smh. See CZAR below. But thanks for reminding us -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 09:18AM It's called leadership and neither party provided it -- Faz d. Hoo 10/05/2017 08:53AM WADR, the Dems were taking on healthcare and financial reform in 2009-10. -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 09:08AM You can make excuses until the cows come home but that doesn't -- Faz d. Hoo 10/05/2017 10:25AM There is some truth to this -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 08:59AM Sandy Hook happened in 2012 -- WahooMatt05 10/05/2017 08:51AM Sometimes people forget to read the WHOLE article they link -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 08:45AM So Holder and Obama are using semantics as a smoke screen? ** -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 08:47AM No, they used the law as it was written. An automatic firearm (which is -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 08:58AM Umm, I was told to speak to my ESL teacher for saying that** -- hoothat 10/05/2017 12:18PM The sturm and drang all week has been that the evil cabal of GOP/NRA -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 09:05AM Und Tuck. Und. ** -- hoodeyo 10/05/2017 2:22PM You are pointing out your own ignorance on how laws and separation of -- WahooRQ 10/05/2017 09:15AM Other than one again showing what you get when you parrot -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 09:22AM Yep, the parroting thing gets kind of obvious. -- Chuck Taylor 10/05/2017 09:51AM It really doesn't matter. A ban won't stop anyone intend on -- Hokie5150 10/05/2017 09:14AM No one is saying this is Trump's fault. They are saying, lets take action -- THECZAR 10/05/2017 09:10AM Trump? Perhaps not...GOP/NRA? That's where nearly all of the blame is -- Tuckahokie 10/05/2017 09:15AM For lack of effective gun laws? Nobody is completely blaming the -- 111Balz 10/05/2017 09:20AM