On Monday, December 17, 2012 2:49:00 PM UTC-5, iBoaterer wrote:
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On Monday, December 17, 2012 12:00:57 PM UTC-5, iBoaterer wrote:



One thing that would certainly help is to hold the legal gun owners

accountable if someone steals their guns. If you allow someone to steal

or "borrow" your gun, and it is used to commit a crime, you would be an

accessory to that crime and pay the consequences.



That's completely idiotic. No one "allows" their possessions to be stolen, a criminal has to steal them, and there is no way to absolutely prevent their theft. And, this is the classic liberal view of blaming others for something that a person does. Lack of personal responsibility, like not paying your taxes and debts.


I have a better idea... If a criminal commits a crime with a stolen gun, it's an automatic death penalty. Far less people behind bars than your idea, much less of a drain on society, and no repeat offenders!


The weight is on the owner to make sure his guns don't get stolen.

And the problem is... that's impossible. And it takes some of the responsibility off the criminal (who's now broken at least *two* laws), and puts it on the law-abiding gun owner.