AST (After Sean Taylor)-To gun or not to gun?

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by canthetuna

no prob for clarifying... i didn't quite understand what you diagreed with...

and the DC area is a prime example. There are gun related crimes daily in that small city and there is a citywide ban on all handguns.

Well, maybe you can answer why there is a ban on radar / lasar detectors? I have owned one for years...in fact I have the Beltronics rx65 and it's AMAZINGLY GOOD! But they have all said that the DC area bans those detectors, unsure why.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Well, maybe you can answer why there is a ban on radar / lasar detectors? I have owned one for years...in fact I have the Beltronics rx65 and it's AMAZINGLY GOOD! But they have all said that the DC area bans those detectors, unsure why.

Well I can't answer for the radar ban but I know that the gun ban isn't doing any good (hell I didn't even know there was a gun ban) cause I have friends that have high-powered automatic weapons like Tech-9s, desert eagles and I know for sure they don't have a license for them. They aren't thugs or anything thank God, just gun nuts.

Although one of my friends who does own guns/rifles/automatics said that in her neighborhood which isn't too far from mine, that people in her neighborhood who own automatic weapons on the 4th of July and new years, go outside with their automatic weapons and shoot them in the air. Like idiots. :smashfrea

This is just an example of how its incredibly easy to pick up a gun from anyone for anyone. Thats why I think there needs to be tighter laws. So idiots can't get their hands on them.

[EternalEnigma21]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Well, maybe you can answer why there is a ban on radar / lasar detectors? I have owned one for years...in fact I have the Beltronics rx65 and it's AMAZINGLY GOOD! But they have all said that the DC area bans those detectors, unsure why.

I'd speculate increased ticket revenue.... but thats just a guess

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Well I can't answer for the radar ban but I know that the gun ban isn't doing any good (hell I didn't even know there was a gun ban) cause I have friends that have high-powered automatic weapons like Tech-9s, desert eagles and I know for sure they don't have a license for them. They aren't thugs or anything thank God, just gun nuts.

Although one of my friends who does own guns/rifles/automatics said that in her neighborhood which isn't too far from mine, that people in her neighborhood who own automatic weapons on the 4th of July and new years, go outside with their automatic weapons and shoot them in the air. Like idiots. :smashfrea

This is just an example of how its incredibly easy to pick up a gun from anyone for anyone. Thats why I think there needs to be tighter laws. So idiots can't get their hands on them.

Sorry but I have a hard time believing that people just go out and shoot off their automatic weapons in DC. Now if you lived in the middle of no where then maybe. These guns are very loud and the cops would be crawing all over the place after one went off. By the way bullets falling from the sky will not kill a person. Saw that on myth busters. I was very surprised at how slow they fell back to earth.

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Sorry but I have a hard time believing that people just go out and shoot off their automatic weapons in DC. Now if you lived in the middle of no where then maybe. These guns are very loud and the cops would be crawing all over the place after one went off. By the way bullets falling from the sky will not kill a person. Saw that on myth busters. I was very surprised at how slow they fell back to earth.

Absolutely incorrect.

While I can't speak for DC specifically, I was an officer in a police department with a metro population of about 650,000.

On New Years Eve we'd find ourselves a nice place to park with a roof (under a bridge or something) and stay there. Near the projects there was non-stop weapons fire for about an hour, with a number of automatics in the mix. We would've needed the National Guard to go in an investigate every last shots fired call, not to mention all the bogus ones for "legit fireworks."

The city sounded like Fallujah on New Years, and I'll be damned if me or any other poorly equipped street cop is going to run around on foot trying to find some dude with a full auto AK47.