Richmond Mayor and City Council again show their anti-freedom, lack of understanding by promoting "closing the gun show loophole." The minutes of the Nov. 22, 2010 meeting are not yet on-line, but I am advised that a resolution was passed to encourage the GA to take up this matter again.
Excuse me ladies and gentleman, but there is NO loophole. An honest citizen has the right to sell his/her private property without constraint from the state. If this were a direct source of criminals getting guns, I would be willing to take another look at it - but it is NOT. No neutral party study has ever validated this contention - quite to the contrary.
http://www.stoppingpower.net/commentary/comm_cop_killers.asp
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=260&issue=014
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/fbi-crime-stats-show-an-armed-public-is-a-safer-public/
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2009/crime2009
Unfortunately the Richmond City Council and the Mayor seem more interested in promoting their unsupported and faulty claim than learning the facts and being good stewards of the trust placed in them.
ETA: note the vote of support for the resolution was 9-0
Excuse me ladies and gentleman, but there is NO loophole. An honest citizen has the right to sell his/her private property without constraint from the state. If this were a direct source of criminals getting guns, I would be willing to take another look at it - but it is NOT. No neutral party study has ever validated this contention - quite to the contrary.
http://www.stoppingpower.net/commentary/comm_cop_killers.asp
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=260&issue=014
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/fbi-crime-stats-show-an-armed-public-is-a-safer-public/
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2009/crime2009
Unfortunately the Richmond City Council and the Mayor seem more interested in promoting their unsupported and faulty claim than learning the facts and being good stewards of the trust placed in them.
ETA: note the vote of support for the resolution was 9-0
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