Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Do you approve of President Obama’s proposals for gun control?
The president's proposals for gun control do not break new ground, but they are the right things to do. They are not infringing on the Second Amendment right to own arms but to regulate the circulation of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Doesn't the Second Amendment contain the words "well regulated"? When the Second Amendment was adopted the nation did not have a standing army nor a well organized police force. Hence the people needed to arm themselves to defend themselves and their families and the nation from foreign invasion. Now the nation spends a vast sum of money on the armed services and the police forces; is it necessary for the citizens to arm themselves?
BOON T. LEE
When you actually read them, along with his comments concerning them, they turn out to be pretty sensible and moderate. No “gun grabbing” involved. I wish he’d go further.
The Republicans have done their best to portray the president as some kind of rabid radical, but those who actually listen to him and observe his actions without the Fox “News” filter know better – that’s why they voted for him. His political views have more in common with Ronald Reagan than Jimmy Carter.
JANE FREEMONT GIBSON
If President Obama's promises versus his actions regarding health care, employment, the economy, fiscal responsibility, transparency, ethics and unity are any gauge, his "gun control" proposals will hurt far more people than they help. No measure of security will be gained by further disarming law-abiding citizens. Congress must uphold the American people's constitutional right to keep and bear arms, for it is a key right of truly free people.
DEB PHILLIPS
No. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that the government is going after the guns of law-abiding citizens while ignoring the enormous problem we have with gangs.
There are over 30,000 gangs in our country today consisting of (mainly) boys and men between the ages of 14 and 30, of every race and nationality. The FBI estimates that they are responsible for more than half of the crime, including homicide, in most cities and even more in others. They are armed with illegally gained guns and are increasingly getting semi-automatic, military-style weapons.
Many of the gang members are boys between the ages of 14 and 19. Gun-related deaths are common for these kids, as well as other children of all ages who are often caught in the middle of gang violence. Where's the outrage for these children? Are they not important enough for our government to address this issue?
The FBI can list the names of every gang and where they're located. Why aren't we taking their weapons first? Why aren't we addressing the social issues that are driving our children to join gangs in the first place? It's time we tackled the real issues in our country.
CHRISTY NUNN
Those who don't agree with anything the president says, and who use their own facts of distortion no matter what he says, will always try to sway the public against him.
What he called for was background checks, more help for the mentally impaired, and a ban on assault weapons with large clips. What about that do they not understand? Nobody is trying to take away people's guns used to protect themselves. It also has nothing to do with the Second Amendment.
NAOMI J. DAVIS
My only complaint is the proposals for gun control do not go far enough.
The sport of skeet shooting I can understand. Killing animals for food, I can appreciate. The only purpose of handguns is to kill and I cannot understand the joy people get in killing.
N.M. WRIGHT
No. Same old feel-good fluff that hasn't worked too well. Let's try, in North Carolina, the Florida model: 10/20/Life. If you commit a crime while in possession of a firearm, 10 years. If you brandish or threaten with that firearm, 20. If you shoot somebody, life. It has worked wonders there.
CHARLIE WEAVER
I will approve of Obama’s proposals when he makes the death penalty mandatory in all 50 states with only three appeals (appeals must be within five years of the crime).
Also when he stops illegal immigration (per legal definition, not his).
JAMES P. SELIGMAN
Yes, it's a start.
KAM BENFIELD
In full disclosure, I am a gun owner. I have also never seen the need to own an automatic assault rifle, but see no reason why some responsible person can't buy one.
Safety is critical when dealing with guns and registering them is no more invasive than getting a drivers license.
But now we come to the dangerous part, when I decide what is right for you. When one person's political point of view and position of power allows his agenda to become law, I have a real problem with that. That approach spreads to many aspects of life. Look at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's food mandates.
Plus we have already proven Prohibition does not work for alcohol, drugs and soon guns.
Register? Yes. Background check? Yes, again. You telling me what I may buy? No, I don't think so.
KEN HOGLUND
Obama, like many presidents before him, approaches problems by forming commissions, councils, and task forces to come up with solutions to our nation’s problems. He formed the Simpson-Bowles Commission to formulate solutions for our money problems, the Jobs Council to gather ideas to fix unemployment, and the Gun Control Task Force to collect ideas to stop mass shootings.
All three groups came up with solutions. I think it is very telling that President Obama ignored the two that dealt with debt and unemployment, but jumped on the one about gun control. This shows he only is focused on his own personal agenda.
The quote that comes to mind:“You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.”
Gun control is not about guns, but about control.”
KAY ANDERSON
BuckyJanuary 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM
ReplyDeleteI drink Sauza....????? So can a person who doesn't drink, drink Sauza? Too funny!!!!
Good morning Bob! Does that mean he gets Sauzed?
DeleteGood Morning, Stab. Reminds me of Bucky saying in May, 2010, "I had relinquished my membership at the Y because of all the leering." But in March, 2010 on FCSW, Lindsey said: "I was thinking about joining a different health club. I asked a friend about the Y and he said there was a lot of leering." So after hearing about the leering, Lindsey joined the Y only to quit 3 months later because of the leering. Con-man is con-fused.
DeleteIt must be a living hell to be Bucky, to have a brain so wharped, abused and deluded.
DeleteGood morning guys! (Coffee has not fully kicked-in yet....)
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DeleteOkay, if some people want to go from my 'C' shxt list to my 'A' shxt list, where Rush is. Have at it, is all I can say.
DeleteAnd you, whitewall, of all people. What's got into you lately?
I should have said if I was going to drink, it would be Sauza. I drank some long ago in Guadalajara on the recommendation of some half baked Mexican. You know, somebody like Rielle, Nancy Drew, LaSombra et al ..etc.etc. amen. Okay?
I haven't spoken to you.
DeleteBucky's Motto: Should'a, would'a, could'a, but didn't, don't, and probably never will. Perhaps you should have said: If I WERE going to drink, it would be Sauza. El futuro de subjuntivo and all that.
DeletePhargo......you threw me off. WW is usually the early man on post in here.
DeleteGood to have you back.
Poor Rush is a like a sadomasochist in this forum, he seems to enjoy being abused.
Rush wouldn't know how to deploy astuteness if someone administered it through an enema. Maybe you could teach him a few things when you get a chance.
Again, good to see you back Phargo...how are the piglets? "Leering" is such a great word and sort of captures Tiny in his entirety.
DeleteBut I hope everyone noticed the warning:
"Okay, if some people want to go from my 'C' shxt list to my 'A' shxt list, where Rush is. Have at it, is all I can say."
Heed the warning! Be afraid!! It is really awful being me and being on Tiny's 'A' shxt lxst. I mean, using his vast array of "fxcts" and his total command of lxgxc and the Xmxrxcxn lxngxxge, he kicks my xss at least a dozen times a day. Every time I see one of his posts, a shxver runs down my spxne because I know I'm gonna get it in the bxtt once again.
Tiny should take up drinking. Maybe some Sxxza would help him write a coherent rant.
DeleteRush, everytime you post something, I just see you in the prostrate exam position. All I do is take out my rubber gloves and go to work.
DeleteDoes that kinda make sense you liberal dope?
These liberals....they're something else. That's for sure.
Delete"All I do is take out my rubber gloves and go to work."
DeleteTiny has no idea how much he gives away about his sexual orientation and his mental state each day.
If law-abiding Americans assert that it is their constitutional right to keep and bear arms (Deb Phillips), and gangs are illegally obtaining (supposedly stealing them from law-abiding citizens?) semi-automatic military-style weapons (Christy Nunn), then there's a problem with the deep rooted rationalization that law abiding citizens are using assault weapons for self defense.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think?
Amen sister.
DeleteYeah, I can see where that would make perfect sense to some tequila-head, John Edwards loving liberal.
DeletePathetic.
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DeleteA bunch of ditto head, liberal police administrators thought they knew what their men and women needed prior to the Hollywood shoot out too.
DeleteAnd the poor cops had to go to a gun store and 'borrow' an assault weapon to defend themselves.
Again, it's a classic liberal mindset-we know everything, and then when the shxt hits the fan, you all try to lie out of it.
Pitiful!
shxt??? lol, that so PC!!
DeleteLiberals are like diabetics. You can give them a shot of insulin (reality) multiple times a day, but it never cures them of their disease (Liberalism).
DeleteP-i-t-i-f-u-l!
Phargo..yeah, I'll admit it. I try to stay within certain verbal boundaries in here. But that sleazy Rush pushes me to my limit sometimes.
DeleteFxck yxx, Bxcky! Is thxt bxttxer?
DeleteYeah, it does seem a little better. It's sorta like Obama telling me he's passed the 'Affordable Health Care Act'. I know I'm going to take it up the culo, but it just sounds better.
DeleteThat would be the "cxlx" that you're taking it up.
DeleteI wonder if Kay Anderson can fit any more tired cliches in that LTE.
ReplyDeleteGood morning all.
Well, one she left out was "guns don't kill people..."
DeleteFunny that people like her are willing to fight for the right to have a gun lying around the house, but are not willing to fight for the right of all citizens to be free from other people's religion, or the right of all citizens to marry and receive the benefits that accrue to other married people, or the right of a woman trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion to be left alone by the government, or my right to not get shot by some hysterical CCW sissy who thinks he is Elliot Ness.
I had a cousin who lived in the middle of nowhere on his ranch in Wyoming. One time I asked him what he liked best about living there. He pointed toward the horizon and said "My neighbor over there minds his own business and lets me take care of mine."
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DeleteAmerica must have its distractions, even if it is a "placebo" bit of legislation. Follows somewhat with yesterday's question. Meantime, we are a dysfunctional debt-based empire ruled by a self-serving elite which buys the complicity of its debt-serfs with bread and circuses. We no longer know what is "good for us".
ReplyDeleteOnce again bad weather is on the march. If anyone feels the urge to dash to the store for bread, milk and eggs....it is understandable.
ReplyDeleteHook up the horse an buggy WW, I'll probably be headed out soon. It goes better than a car in this stuff.
DeleteWW...forgot toilet paper again. One of these days you'll do that and be sorry.
DeleteOne of my friends' mother has a whole closet full of toilet paper...she's not going to have to use a corn cob even if it snows for forty days and forty nights.
Her basement is full of canned fruit and vegetables, some of them with expiration dates around VE Day.
OT, I did forget, again. Would you be so kind as to slip me the number for your friends mother?
DeleteSorry, her motto is "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
DeleteHer son wanted to clean out all the old spoiled food but she wouldn't let him have the key to the basement. She also has a huge freezer full of meat, some of which may be bear steak shot by Daniel Boone along Bear Creek over in Davie County.
Every now and then she goes to the grocery store and then drives to the house that she used to live in and wonders why the key won't unlock the door. But she's a tough old girl...hangin' in there.
It's snowing, it's snowing! The old man is...blowing(?) (hmm...might have to work on that one)
DeleteWell, Dotnet, I'm sure you have Bucky's attention right now!
DeleteToday we celebrate Robert Burns 254th Birthday. "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
ReplyDeleteGang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!" But Bucky reminds me daily of another Scotsman born 12 years later, Sir Walter Scott: "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." (from Marmion).
Happy birthday Bobby!
DeleteFor auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And there won't be any Sauza in that cup. Maybe a wee tot of Glenturret single malt.
OT...if you stop in, did your friend Fam follow Anne Correll at the NC room? I'm trying to remember if I have ever met him.
ReplyDeleteHi WW...no, Jerry Carroll succeeded Anne. He retired about four years ago. But Fam has Anne's nameplate on his desk. If and when they ever get a new library, he wants to create a little shrine to Anne and Jerry in some corner...they put together the best local history/genealogy collection in the state outside of the state library and the Wilson Library at UNC-CH.
DeleteHe does not run the room; he is the historian there, and answers all the questions that come in from all over the world. He's like Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch...pure research.
Anne and my late Mother were well acquainted. Someday I may journey over to FC and find Fam and ask him a couple of personal questions( not about him).
DeleteWell, he's the answer man. He was telling me last night about a phone call he got the other day.
DeleteThis woman said "I've been trying to remember this for weeks and somebody told me to call you and you could help me. There used to be a piano store..." At which point he interrupted and said "That would be the Bland Piano Company." She said "Omigod, that's it, that's it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Of course, he knew the Blands...I think they were his god-parents.
Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour are at it again. In a speech this week, Jindal said that the GOP needs to stop being the "stupid party". Barbour agreed.
ReplyDeleteThe response from the troops in the field? Yet another stupid, this time New Mexico state House representative Cathrynn Brown (who looks like a Republican version of Lily Munster and whose mother did not know how to spell her own daughters name) has introduced a bill that would require pregnant rape victims to carry their babies to term to avoid being charged with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence".
“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime," the bill says.
Bobby, Haley, y'all gonna have to talk louder.
Bobby and Haley need to start a new party. Perhaps Huntsman et al might be interested.
DeleteAn R version of Lily Munster? What? Lily (and Yvonne de Carlo's estate) should sue for slander.
DeleteI would add Christy into that mix as well.
DeleteHuntsman would be an excellent choice, and he is not alone. Governor Christie, Bill Hanna, Steve LaTourette, Candace Straight, Christy Whitman, Charlie Crist, George Pataki, Lisa Murkowski, and dare I say it...Jeb Bush, all might be interested.
DeleteIn order for a slander lawsuit to be worthwhile, the target needs to have some money, property, etc.
DeleteI own a few sweaters and two four packs of Deviant Dale's IPA, the latter of which will be gone before the courts reopen on Monday. So, like my favorite actor, Slim Pickins.
Maybe the estate could move fast. Deviant Dave's might be worth the suit.
DeleteHow could I forget Christie? Yes, indeed, all of 'me. Count Stab in, though he's been out of politics for decades.
DeleteI can hide the ale on the fire escape, and even the Munsters wouldn't take a man's sweater when it's 23 degrees outside.
DeleteI'm much more concerned about being sued by Tiny's girlfriend, Paris...she sues for the publicity value.
Stupid Party? Democrats have long since had that title locked up.
DeleteI can hide the ale on the fire escape, and even the Munsters wouldn't take a man's sweaters when it is 23 degrees out.
DeleteI'm much more worried about being sued by Tiny's main squeeze Paris...she sues for the publicity value.
Deviant Dave sounds like a porn star's name?
DeleteYes...Stab is having BuckyRead problem or something...it's Deviant Dale's, the best IPA I have ever had.
DeleteIt better be at $13.89 for a four-pack of 16 ounce cans.
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DeleteWho would waste their time suing you Rush? You're worthless monetarily, and as a human being.
DeleteSee what I meant when I said above that you do not want to be on Tiny's 'A' shxt lxst?
DeleteNote the sophistication, the sizzling wit, the swift dagger to the heart, as he rips out yet another liberal's guts.
Now he has kicked my xss again...and believe me, it hurts! Boo, hoo, hoo.
Not a Bucky read problem, just a hasty typing problem. Deviant Dale's it is.
DeleteYes, even with my obedient Dragon Dictate secretary, we have the occasional typing malfunction. I don't believe that Dragon is available yet for phones, but coming soon, courtesy of Apple...you will love it. Of course, then we will have to emulate politicians and say that we "misspoke".
DeleteHaving a Deviant right now, so oblivious to the nastiness outside. Believe it or not, the temp actually went up from 23 to 25 around 5:00 PM, now back down to 24, which should be the low tonight.
46 tomorrow, and 68 on Tuesday, with a low of 54. Global climate change is a myth.
Good afternoon folks! 5 weeks of winter down, 8 to go. Guess Mother Nature didn't take kindly to me mocking the winter we've been having a couple of weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteSum it up: I do hope the is the last of the guns. The issue doesn't affect me and I haven't looked into Obama's executive orders for guns. The US averages 100,000 shootings a year resulting in 30,000 deaths a year which in my mind indicates the previous gun policies weren't working. For me, the better question is will any of Obama's gun proposals be effective. As for some of the responses:
Lee: my award for Best Response
"His political views have more in common with Ronald Reagan than Jimmy Carter." - a bit of a stretch on that one
"Congress must uphold the American people's constitutional right to keep and bear arms, for it is a key right of truly free people." - Maybe in the 18th century. The ballot box is far more important today to "truly free people", and it's Deb's buddies who want to take that away from the most vulnerable.
"Why aren't we taking their (gangs') weapons first?" - because nobody is taking anyone's guns away.
"Let's try, in North Carolina, the Florida model...It has worked wonders there." - unfortunately, FL sabotaged it with the Stand Your Ground law. "I was afraid for my life!". "OK, you can go home."
Seligman, Anderson: (heavy, heavy sigh)
Florida has a been a model for the rest of the country on concealed carry. Many CCW carriers have shot the ever lovin' daylights out of some Democrats in the mist of some violent crimes.
DeleteYes, all states will soon follow Florida's lead by allowing law abiding folks to pack heat.
For once, one of Tiny's screw-ups gets it right..."mist" is the right word for Florida's self defense law.
DeleteAs reported a few days ago, of the 119 people who have killed someone in "self defense" in Florida and gotten away with it, 60% had criminal records, a total of over 300 cfriminal charges among them...truly a high class bunch.
Maybe they shot other criminals?
DeleteJust three days before Newtown, on Dec. 11, 2012, an armed gunman walked in the Clackmas Town Center shopping mall in Happy Valley, Ore. He shot two people, but was confronted by concealed carry permit holder Nick Meli, who was enabled to properly use his weapon to subdue the shooter before he could do more damage. This wasn’t reported in the local newspapers. Only one local Portland television station covered Meli’s presence.
DeleteStab - I wrote about this several days ago…too lazy to look it up now, but I believe that about half the people killed also had criminal records, so Stand Your Ground has become pretty much a license for thugs to kill thugs…nothing really new.
DeleteAs to Clackmas, Nick Meli's story has been widely reported both locally and nationally. He said that he drew his weapon and aimed, but realized that there were people in the line of fire behind the shooter, so wisely decided not to shoot. I'm sure that Billy the Bucky would have opened fire and killed several other people, more than likely missing the shooter entirely.
DeleteThe shooter then moved to another area of the mall and Meli never saw him again. Meli did not confront the shooter. The shooter never saw Meli. Meli had zero effect upon the situation.
The shooter's gun had jammed at the point that Meli saw him, after two people had been killed. Meli clearly described the shooter's attempts to clear the jam. If Meli had been anything other than a typical scared CCW type, he could have rushed the shooter at that point. Instead, he retreated into a store.
The gun jam is what prevented more people from being killed. The shooter then retreated into non-public areas of the mall, where he apparently finally succeeded in clearing the jam and shot himself.
The entire incident, from first shots until police found the shooter dead, lasted 22 minutes.
As always, Tiny NRA Chicken Little sissy boy just loves to spread lies and misinformation.
And there you have it folks. The unabridged version of a heroic action by a lawful gun owner by Rush, the liberal NW.
DeleteI think you're ready to go to work for CNN or maybe even the New York Times Rush.
Pathetic.
I think George Zimmerman has good chance of walking. If Casey Anthony can go free. George is a shoe-in.
DeleteI wish Rush would go prosecute him. He'd be sure to get off. Hee Hee......
"George is a shoe-in". That was a typo...note how close the letter "o" is to the letter "e" on the QWERTY keyboard...it could happen to anyone.
DeleteOr maybe Tiny meant that Killer Zim had a secret video camera in his shoe which recorded the entire incident, revealing the murderous intent of that nasty black teenager. Of course...that's it. Justice will prevail.
Either way...
ReplyDeleteAnd Sarah Palin gets canned from Fox.
ReplyDeleteOh my! Whatever shall I do! The FEAR she inspires in me!!!!!
Mercy...I haven't laughed this hard since I saw George Carlin live in Greensboro in '94. They've all been SO wrong about so many things.
Hello, Hatchman. Have they bounced you off the wall at your new job yet? If they haven't, they will. Trust me. It's only a matter of time.
DeleteWhatever. You're funny Tim.
DeleteAnd since we were talking about South Park last night, this one's for you:
DeleteCartman is fabulous!
Punch your ticket and get out. That's what most people do who go on to make big money.
DeleteKeep your distance from weasels like Rush. They'll just get you in trouble.
And keep calling me Tim. I like to see liberals make fools of themselves.
DeleteDo you want me to call you George instead?
DeleteThe former Alaska governor and the network have parted ways, a source close to Palin told ABC News. The same source said it was her decision to leave the network and that Fox offered her an opportunity to renew her contract.
Delete________
You're getting like Rush, Hatchman.
You don't know much about PR, do you?
DeleteArthur, you gotta give Tiny credit. He never gives up...just like a chicken trying to reach some food through the chicken wire...they will literally keep trying until they strangle themselves.
DeleteHe has a lot of stick-to-it-iveness that way.
DeleteYes. Anyone who actually pays attention knows that Silly Sarah has been on her way out at Fox for some time now. Her contract negotiations began last summer and have never gone well.
DeleteRoger Ailes (that's the big chief at FoxLies®, Tiny), has pubicly mocked her and privately referred to her as "stupid", which pretty much hits the old nail right where you want to hit it.
Not wanting to offend the handful of nutcases who still think that Sarah is a genius (defined as being smarter than they are, which is not difficult) by firing her, Ailes simply offered her a joke contract, thus forcing her out.
Of course, Tiny is always a sucker for the spin doctors, as shown in this case.
I think it needs to switch shrinks, sedatives or to decaf, or something. It really just never thinks.
ReplyDeleteOkay, pencil head. I haven't come up with a good name for you yet. But I'm working on it.
DeleteHow about "pencil head"...that would match your dxck.
DeleteI like pencil head.
DeleteMe too, gg. He has occasionally honored me with that sobriquet.
DeleteAs always, he fails to understand almost anything about anything, so does not know the true significance of pencil heads.
He has probably never heard the truthful phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword."
Before pencils, many tools had been used for writing. Unfortunately, all such items, including the pen and its ink, were somewhat costly, thus limiting writing to the better off.
In the early 1500s, a huge deposit of solid graphite was discovered in England. It remains the only such discovery in history. It transformed many areas of life, from being the lining of molds for cannonballs to improving the workings of locks to becoming the first really cheap writing instruments. Since carpenters use pencils to mark just about everything, most buildings in existence today are partially a result of pencils.
Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729. George Washington used a three inch pencil while surveying the Ohio Territory in 1762. Henry David Thoreau, seeking a cheaper way of writing, created a new method of pencil manufacture in the 19th century. His essays and books were written in pencil.
In 1858, a guy named Hymen Lipman managed to attach an eraser to a pencil, so that if, like Tiny, you made frequent mistakes, you could eliminate them and start over. Tiny should learn how to use one.
But the pencil head is the business end, and has revolutionized communications, which is the basis of civilization. So when Tiny uses that term, he is, unknowingly as always, bestowing a compliment.
I won't even bother requoting Sally Fields.
Judge Pirro puts it on liberal cowards over the publishing gun owners' addresses.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxABvvDOPvE&playnext=1&list=PL7yWZ6qdeEj8dCxaWwta8_x_8PWafFqvu&feature=results_video
Note than when he has been battered down on everything else, Tiny, like one of those little elusive running backs trying to escape the big boys, switches fields. The running backs, because they are talented and smart, often succeed, but Tiny, because he is neither, merely posts yet another irrelevant item.
DeleteGun permits, like most other government transactions, are, and must be, public record. That doesn't mean that they have to be made available on the internet, or even available physically to the general public…see driver's license information in NC.
But they must be available to the press, as is driver's license information. That doesn't mean that the press has to publish such information. In this case, I would not have, because essentially the newspapers were providing a shopping list yellow pages for gun stealing thugs.
Most thugs cannot legally buy a gun. Of course, they can buy one from the thug next door. But where did the thug next door get his? Well, thugs next door, unlike Tiny, are not entirely stupid. They are acutely aware that the typical gun nut has a few guns lying around ready to steal.
How do they manage the theft? Since many gun nuts also happen to be blowhards, they listen. Say some fool is bragging about his guns at the local convenience store, a fairly frequent occurrence. The thug next door overhears, follows the fool home, ascertains the fools routine, and while the fool is working his greeter job at Wal*Mart, breaks in and steals all the fools guns.
That is why of the 300 million or so guns in the US, a significant number are in the hands of the thug next door.