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bobclark86

(1,415 posts)
10. Not really...
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 06:48 PM
Jan 2014

"They are the ones causing part of the problem."

You honestly have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

Guy getting pissed and shooting someone over texting in a theater? George Zimmerman shooting a kid after calling 911? Guy walks into a school and shoots 26 people? The 2 out of every 3 firearms-related deaths where the shooter is also the victim?

NONE of those are the kinds of crime you need microstamping to solve. Your Zimmerman fantasy always sticks around because they think they are doing the right thing. You don't need to track casings to figure out who did it, they'll fucking brag about it.

You know what kinds of crimes are potentially solved by such technology? Drug deals gone bad. Burglaries. Robberies. Drive-by shootings. Crimes where the criminal are gone by the time the cops show up.

THOSE are the people who don't stick around. Coincidentally, they get 80 percent of their firearms to use in crime are bought from friends and family, or from an illegal source -- very few are bought new and used for crime by the original owner (Check with the FBI for all the details).

The people that, IF they had a gun with microstamping actually linked to them, they'll file the info off.

Yes, CoBIS did cost $46 million, according to state officials. Google is your friend.

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