Ravenwood - 03/03/05 06:15 AM
Another gun lie in the media, this time from the Collegiate Times, the student newspaper of Virginia Tech.
Virginia laws concerning gun shows will remain status quo. Anyone can purchase a firearm at a gun show without having a background check.Nothing could be further from the truth. All gun dealers must continue to conduct background checks on gun buyers, regardless of where the purchase is made. Even at gun shows.
UPDATE: Okay, weeding through the rest of the article, you find this:
Robert Caverly, Arab and Islamic philosophy studies sophomore at Villanova University, also believes criminals selling their gun collections should undergo background checks, just like the vendors.Huh?! Let's take this idiotic suggestion at face value. Making criminals undergo background checks for gun possession would be unConstitutional. It violates several Amendments, most notably the protection against unreasonable search and seizure and the protection against self-incrimination. You see, criminals cannot be forced to register their guns because doing so would be forcing them to confess to a crime. There are laws against that.
The idiot has more:
"I don't see how anyone could object to a federalized license system. It is not a closure of your second amendment rights, it's a protection of your first amendment rights," Caverly said.What the?! Pray tell, how does violating Second Amendment rights protect the First Amendment? Is this the kind of thing they teach at Villanova or did this guy learn it on the streets?
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Robert Caverly, Arab and Islamic philosophy studies sophomore at Villanova University, also believes criminals selling their gun collections should undergo background checks, just like the vendors.
*cough*
Huh?
“I don’t see how anyone could object to a federalized license system. It is not a closure of your second amendment rights, it’s a protection of your first amendment rights,” Caverly said.
*cough, cough*
Huh? You "don't see"? How about can't see or won't see? The are none so blind as those...
Oh, nevermind.
Posted by: Steve Scudder at March 3, 2005 8:48 AMYeah, I didn't really understand that guy myself. I was in a rush last night because I had to work late. I'll probably amend the post to include his idiotic ravings.
Posted by: Ravenwood at March 3, 2005 9:01 AMRobert Caverly, Arab and Islamic philosophy studies sophomore at Villanova...
In another 4 years or so, their local Blockbuster will apparently have a new employee.
Posted by: roger at March 3, 2005 10:20 AMIt goes to show that just because you can memorize facts in college, doesn't mean you know how to think in a rational manner. Either you have common sense, or you don't.....
Posted by: Robert Garrard at March 3, 2005 1:17 PMYou can send a horse's ass to college, but you can't make him think.
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