Felon tells us why we need more gun control
The Daily Beast posts an article written by a convicted felon to influence the gun control debate. The NRA Is Wrong: The Myth of Illegal Guns is written by Matthew Parker who by his own admission has been convicted of crimes ranging from “counterfeiting to felony-shoplifting to possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia”. He claims that because Adam Lanza, didn’t know his way around the underworld, he couldn’t have bought a gun illegally;
My point is that purchasing firearms illegally should be an ordeal, and that effective background checks would be the first step in making it so. But what’s also pertinent is that Lanza was not a shady character with a long criminal history, and so would have had no experience moving in illicit circles. Background checks may have forced him to do so—to risk being arrested, robbed, or even killed in some dark alley for the substantial sum he’d have needed in order to buy a gun illegally.
Yeah, well, Lanza didn’t need background checks, he murdered the owner of the guns – his mother. When he tried to buy a gun legally, he was stymied by the waiting period. Apparently he couldn’t wait three days to kill those children.
When pro-gun lobbyists insist that it’s relatively easy for criminals to obtain firearms illegally they have the luxury of categorizing Lanza, Loughner, and Holmes as criminals because it is after the fact of their crimes. But if you examine the scenario before the fact it’s plain to see that you’re dealing with sick individuals whose criminal proclivities existed solely in their minds. Their first step in becoming criminals was getting their hands on guns and ammunition. Holmes and Loughner, in particular, were able to buy their weapons legally, passing the nominal background checks that currently exist with ease.
So, the author’s solution is that we should all take a two-hour psyche test that is given to prisoners. Sounds reasonable, right? Give law abiding citizens a test that those incarcerated take to determine their place in the penal system. Of course, prisoners have no reason to lie about the questions they answer because they’re already behind those walls. Doesn’t Parker think that sociopaths not in the prison system and aiming to buy a gun for their nefarious purposes wouldn’t lie?
Of course, the larger question is; can anyone think of a real obvious reason a four-time loser would want to make it tougher for law abiding citizens to buy guns? The answer is fairly obvious to me – well, more obvious than it is to the editors of the Daily Beast, apparently.
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Mr. Parker should have been subject to a waiting period for pen and paper. 🙁
Simply put, Mr. Parker is an idiot among idiots!
Ummm, Adam Lanza DID get his guns illegally. Last I checked, Murder is illegal, and so is theft.
He admits to, among other convictions, felony shoplifting. Felony shoplifting? How kind he is to himself. There is no such thing as felony shoplifting in New York. It’s called Grand Larceny in the 3rd or 4th degree, depending on the value of the property stolen. $1,000 is the base amount to qualify for the felony he admits to. He also admits to possession of narcotics and paraphernalia. Well, lest anyone consider that the poor felon was merely caught with rolling papers or a bong, know that in New York, the drug paraphernalia law is used primarily against traffickers, NOT users. The paraphernalia listed are vials, capsules, cutting agents, and that sort of stuff, the stuff sellers use. He refers to his “somewhat shady past.” Somewhat shady? Bwahahahahahahahahaha.
Criminals prefer unarmed victims. And dictatorships prefer unarmed subjects. The Daily Beasts’ editors are a few fries short of a happy meal for this one.
Ths is how criminals bypass background checks to get firearms.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/video?&clipId=8918397&autostart=true
They aren’t honest about it. Anyone who tells you different has their head in the sand.
3D printers will soon make all of this moot in any event-let the lefties rail against reality, that’s their specialty.
What is Parker’s motivation? Restoration of suffrage? Money from a relative/girlfriend/social worker-turned-activist?
Mr. Parker, your history leads me to believe that you aren’t the smartest of people. Your writing reaffirms that hypothesis.
Next thing these hipsters are going to have are Islamic terrorists writing articles titled, USA is wrong: The myths of Islamic jihad.
What dickbutts over at the daily excrement.
I’m supposed to listen to a convicted felon tell me why I don’t need a gun. Is that right?
Should I tell him why I think he needs to stay in jail? 🙂
Per The Homer Simpson Award for Criminal Intellectual Excellence, I hereby award Mr Matthew Parker the Golden D’OH!
@10. They already are and have been for some time. Whenever you hear or read, “Islam, the religion of peace,” you have their handiwork.
Oh, sure. Take advice on legal gun ownership from a felon. Maybe the plumber should teach the kids how to play the piano, too?
Well, seems that depending upon his state of residence (NY) he can’t vote, he can’t own a gun, now if we could just keep him from breeding, the gene pool would improve that much more.
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If he keeps up with his Homer Simpson Excellent Intellectual ways, maybe he can also be nominated for a Darwin Deselection Award for a future stupid act.
Just what was he stoned on when he made that comment, or is he simply that stupid when he’s sober?
Felon: “My point is that purchasing firearms should be an ordeal, and that effective background checks would be the first step in making it so”
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Of course felons don’t want us to have guns. My next door neighbor complained to my apartment manager about me “showing off” my gun. He neglected to tell them I put it in his face while he was beating his wife. It’s so easy to twist words and make any statement true. Just depends on what “truth” you want to hear and force others to see.
OK, well, somebody tell him that if he comes near my house, he’s going to get an up close and personal demonstration of the definition of “ordeal”.
Where does this felon live?
I don’t exactly live in Crime Alley, Gotham. I grew up in lily-white suburbia. My buddy’s mom -was- Mrs Cleaver. Getting an illegal gun in my teens was actually cheaper and easier than getting a half pound of weed.
It’s hard to get an illegal gun? Cry me a river. When my buddies and I actually grew up and became less idiotic, getting a legal gun was much more difficult, time consuming, and expensive.
Hell, I don’t even hang out in that ‘scene’ anymore, or anything close, but I’m sure I know a guy who knows a guy who can get me a piece for couple of hundred. Tomorrow.
Getting an illegal gun is so difficult so it’s not even worth trying.
Is that the argument?
PS: No, I don’t own illegal guns. All my weapons; ranged, melee, and biological(dogs), are perfectly legal(in my State). 😉
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needs to make up his mind… “it’s so difficult to acquire guns he couldn’t have done it” – Lanza was willing to murder his own mother to get one. I suspect if he was willing to go that far, he could have done the proverbial back-alley deal.
And if this kind of person is willing to do something as unthinkable as killing his mother – do you seriously think filling out a freakin’ FORM would have deterred him?