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flamin lib

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2. All people dealing with a deadly commodity should do some kind of
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:15 PM
Oct 2015

due diligence. I don't care if it's commercial pesticide or explosives. Yeah, I know it's a legal term with a real legal definition but you know what I mean. Did the seller verify that the sale was in-state? Did the seller even attempt to determine the intent and character of the buyer? That's where a video tape is useful. It makes the seller take responsibility for the sale.

The other suggestions are simply ideas to reduce gun violence.

SYG first. It isn't a license to kill, it's an incentive. As long as both participants are alive it's possible to prove that there was no justification for "self defense". Once there is only a single survivor it boils down to what that person says they thought was a self defense situation.

Shall issue takes the human element out of issuing a carry permit. As it should be abundantly clear by now a person can pass an NICS check and still be batshit crazy and a danger to themselves and others. Put local law enforcement back into the process.

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