ok, so what's the point of this stupid law....

[rpm]

Originally posted by Blooz
We have the same thing here with the stupid "hands free" cell phone law.

Just another way to fleece the public.

My cell provider (AT&T) gave me a free hands-free headset. Yup, I sure got fleeced.

[GtoRA2]

Rpm did everyone get a free hand free setup? If not your point is well, pointless.


Forcing people to buy locks is a waste of time, the kind of gun owner who is responsible already secures his firearms. The ones that are not will throw away the lock.

More stupid laws to make stupid people smart.

[rpm]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
Rpm did everyone get a free hand free setup? If not your point is well, pointless.

Yes, they gave all their customers free headsets. Retail $9.99, actual cost about $0.25.
Like KBall said, locks only stop honest people. But, Trigger Locks are a reasonable, cheap and effecient deterent to unauthorized use of a weapon, especially to children. Gun Safes are a better, more expensive deterent.
I own handguns and have had 2 stolen during a break-in. There is nothing as disturbing as knowing someone out there is walking around with YOUR weapon. Luckily I got 1 of them back, but my Ruger .41 Mag Blackhawk is still out there. Neither had a Trigger Lock, but both were in a locked drawer in a locked closet. Now I own a Gun Safe. If I travel with a weapon, it has a Trigger Lock.

[GtoRA2]

I agree RPM, but making people buy them does not make them use them.


Ruger black hawk .41? Nice gun to bad it got stolen. Ammo aint cheap for it though!


I own to many guns now. I really need a safe. The good ones are to heavy for someone who does not own their home though.

[capt. apathy]

may be guys making laws have some quota of law, which they must produce every month, so they just took this crap

I've often thought there should be an exchange program with laws.  when you make a new one you have to pick an old one to get rid of.

we had a similar program with one of my grandmothers when I was a child.  after living through the depression and raising 11 kids (mostly on her own, after my grandfather died), she had gotten into the habit of hanging on to anything that was remotely useful.  my mother and her sisters and brothers had to finally tell her that when they took her shopping for new clothes she had to give up an old one for every new one she received(she had some that where over 30 years old and hadn't been worn in almost that many years).  it really keeps down the clutter, our legal system could sure use that.

[GtoRA2]

LOL that would be a great idea Apathy. Never happen though.

Hell in Cali it is agaist the law to have a loaded gun in the car at all, it is also agaist the law to have it not locked up.

But there is a law that says you can keep a gun on you if you are on the way to hunt or fish, I think concealed. LOL, there were the last time I looked all kinds of really lame contradictory laws in Cali like that cause they never remove any from the books.

[rpm]

GTO, I agree that ownership will not automaticly cause usage. But, like seatbelts, over time that usage will increase. Is is a cure-all panacea? Not by a longshot, but it's a good step in the right direction. Personally, I think they should make all guns "handprint" smart.

[lazs2]

rpm... you did not get a "free" hands free cell phone thingie... the company just raised rates or didn't lower em... they are not eating the cost..  Car manufacturers do not give away seatbelts or safety devices or smog devices it is all factored into the cost of the car..

lazs

[hawker238]

I'd rather see the driver next to me eating and talking with one hand on the wheel rather than driving with his knees, talking on his cell, and eating.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by lazs2
Car manufacturers do not give away seatbelts or safety devices or smog devices it is all factored into the cost of the car..

lazs

And safety devices such as airbags and seatbelts save millions in health care costs, not to mention lives. Even the helmet law can be justified cause hospitals can't turn away critical care accident victims, and treating them raises my healthcare costs.

What you want, Lazs, is the freedom to do what you want, plus the safety net of having the Government fix you up when you fall down with scissors.

[AKIron]

It's amazing what people will do while driving. We really need drive-by-wire cars so we can get computer driven cars.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Airhead
And safety devices such as airbags and seatbelts save millions in health care costs, not to mention lives. Even the helmet law can be justified cause hospitals can't turn away critical care accident victims, and treating them raises my healthcare costs.

What you want, Lazs, is the freedom to do what you want, plus the safety net of having the Government fix you up when you fall down with scissors.

I think what Laz wants is the government to leave him alone......

[Airhead]

Originally posted by NUKE
I think what Laz wants is the government to leave him alone......

Hey, we ALL do. But as long as our health care system is required BY LAW to treat you if you're injured- at MY expense- then I have the right to tell what you can, and cannot, do.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Airhead
Hey, we ALL do. But as long as our health care system is required BY LAW to treat you if you're injured- at MY expense- then I have the right to tell what you can, and cannot, do.

so is it a law that people wear condoms?

[Airhead]

Originally posted by NUKE
so is it a law that people wear condoms?

For many, it should have been for their parents.