Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.

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    8 months ago

    “Hopes and prayers, constitution ties our hands, we’ve done all we can do, it’s the parent’s fault, he played too much red dead redemption, if all the bus passengers had guns this wouldn’t have happened….”

    Start taxing the SHIT out of ammo, Chris Rock had a great idea, we just need to make it law.

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      8 months ago

      All increasing taxes on ammo would do is kill off sports shooting. Murders and thieves are still going to need ammo, and they are still going to have it. Only legitimate sports shooters may no longer be able to afford their hobby.

      Sometimes the answer is more nuanced than “just tax it.”

      I think our best course forward is: Deeper background checks, federally filed paperwork for private sale, holding periods, and my personal favorite “the gun co-signer”. At least one other person in your life must come and sign that you are currently in good mental facilities for a gun.

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      Ammunition reloading is already alive and well in America and an amazing money savings versus buying new. Saved brass is paid for an smaller caliber rounds are cheap, like a dime per bullet (.223); ultimately it would spread dirt cheap methods of self production and selling brass casings as something innocuous like “paper weights”.

      Gun nuts always find a way to circumvent law. See defining “assault rifle” for example.

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        8 months ago

        I’m sure this kid learned reloading his own ammo at some after school club or something, didn’t buy it off the interwebs.