Riot gear, steel barriers, 7,000 police and security personnel for GOP convention

[Tennis]

And what do you do with the 300+ million firearms already in circulation?

Just because the number is high doesn't mean we do nothing. Don't have a defeatist attitude.

[Ghostpanther]

Just because the number is high doesn't mean we do nothing. Don't have a defeatist attitude.

Sometimes it is also having a realistic attitude. Like, closing the barn door after the horses have got out, does not get the lost horses back. And we have done several things over the decades to help improve crime with firearms. What we really need is stronger enforcement of the gun control laws we already have on the books. With the exception of closing some background check loopholes. Which I am not against such.

[Masark]

And the bodyarmor will save you more than a gun. Why aren't people wearing those then?

I believe they're illegal in several states. Connecticut, for example.

Searching doesn't show me any useful state-by-state rundowns.

[Azadina]

Sometimes it is also having a realistic attitude. Like, closing the barn door after the horses have got out, does not get the lost horses back. And we have done several things over the decades to help improve crime with firearms. What we really need is stronger enforcement of the gun control laws we already have on the books. With the exception of closing some background check loopholes. Which I am not against such.

And using that analogy, now that you've let all the horses out (guns), you can't be bothered to even try to get them back? Well, there's the problem.

[the game]

I bet they wish more that idiotic civilians who would shoot at them weren't freely sold weapons to do exactly that.

I don't think the people who buy guns planning to kill people will go up to the gun shop owner and say "hey what's the best gun to kill a bunch of cops?" I mean I don't know how the gun shop owner would know that they're selling the guy a gun to go kill a bunch of people.

[Ripster42]

I don't think the people who buy guns planning to kill people will go up to the gun shop owner and say "hey what's the best gun to kill a bunch of cops?" I mean I don't know how the gun shop owner would know that they're selling the guy a gun to go kill a bunch of people.

You think that would work though?

[Orange Joe]

Last election cycle. And the one before that.

source? I didn't hear of any riots

[Naxere]

Just because the number is high doesn't mean we do nothing. Don't have a defeatist attitude.

You mistake me, I'm not in the "let's ban all guns!" camp. Tighten up some laws, sure. Confiscating someone's legally purchased item (and their constitutionally protected right to own) is where most left wing anti-gun nuts lose me.

[Derpleton]

When I saw the emoji in the thread title I knew it had to be a Tennisace thread. Was not dissapointed.

[Alvito]

I thought you lived in Canada?

We are expanding having other countries pay for things. Mexico will pay for the big wall down south. Canada is now on the hook for smaller walls or steel barriers.