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Another Reason to Have Fewer Guns, Because Fewer Guns Equate to Fewer Crimes with Guns

Posted on the 20 January 2012 by Mikeb302000
This gun started out as legal.  Someone who bought it legally was careless in not researching who they traded it to or to whom they sold it. That legal buyer didn't care about anyone else who might end up on the wrong side of that gun, a victim of gun violence or the threat of gun violence.
It is this lack of care, this problem with legal guns becoming illegal guns, that proves our so-called law abiding gun owners aren't really very good about preventing their firearms from ending up in the hands of criminals.  Because they do not take the care and are not as responsible as they need to be voluntarily, we need regulation to penalize them for those deficiencies that harm us all.
We need the gun nuts to have some skin in the game, to have something on the line for what happens with their legal firearms when they become illegal firearms.
I favor regulation, licensing, and some form of bonding where they lose money if they transfer their legal firearm to a prohibited person, or if their firearm is used in the commission of a crime.
From MSNBC.com and news services:

Cops: Gunman robs choir group at church

By msnbc.com staff and news servicesPolice in Goose Creek, S.C. say a man armed with a shotgun robbed a choir group as they practiced at a church.
According to WCSC in Charleston, authorities responded to the St. James United Methodist Church around 8 p.m. Wednesday after reports of an armed robbery.
One of the victims told police that a man entered the church through an unlocked door and aimed a shotgun toward the choir area, WCSC reports. According to the station, the suspect then told the choir to get on the floor and keep their heads down.
The robber made off with purses, wallets and cell phones from the choir members. No one was hurt, WSOC-TV reports.
Investigators say the suspect is a black male between 5'10" to 5'11 and 230 pounds.
The robber escaped on foot. Police are continuing the investigation.

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