Reply #109: Ummmm....it's illegal to sell guns to a drunk.... [View All]

by federal law. It's illegal to sell guns to somebody who is intoxicated, too.

I'd like to point out a few facts. First off, it's possible to buy guns on the black market. Looking for a gun? Talk to the guy you buy your pot or coke or whatever from. Criminals WILL get guns, without waiting periods. The ONLY people this kind of law harms are the people who abide by the law.

Let's say you're a woman being stalked by your psycho redneck ex, who has vowed to kill you. Odds are good that you've taken out a restraining order, so he's not able to buy guns legally. Given that he's intent on commiting murder, do you REALLY think breaking the waiting period law is going to deter him? Is he going to say "I really want to kill her, a crime that entails at least 20 years in jail and may be a capital offense, but I'm not going to do it because buying a gun on the black market will violate gun control laws, which might result in me being put away for 5 years, so I better not do it." Now look at the other side. You're that same woman, whose psycho ex is coming to kill you. You are not going to break the law, you just want to stay alive, so you go to the gun store and try to buy a gun to defend yourself with. They tell you to come back in five days, because you can't defend yourself until you have "cooled off". You leave, go home, and die when he finds you.

Gun control is the idea that a woman who has been raped and strangled to death in an alley with her own pantyhose is somehow morally superior to that same woman, standing unharmed in the mouth of the alley, wearing her pantyhose, explaining to the police how her attacker came to have two holes in his chest.