Since men are raised to be problem solvers, the ones who self-select to solve the stated problem are more likely to be men. Since they are not part of gun culture, and indeed abhor them, thinking that guns are only used to kill people, they do not have their own guns and usually obtain them from someone else who already has one — sometimes relatives, older relatives who have older guns. Since rifles are preferred over handguns, there are an unusual percentage of odd ball rifles over 60 years old.

Why do leftists fear guns? Because they get emotional and feel that they have to solve their problems through violence (and look at how often they do), so they fear that if they owned a gun then they would use it for a violent resolution to a problem that they see. Sometimes that is a problem presented to them by their leftist leaders. With tens of millions of leftist followers in America, it does not take that many followers to wreak a lot of havoc with guns. Even if there were only one in a thousand who would do so, that would be more than 30,000 people dead by gunfire each year.

The best part of stochastic violence, for the perpetrators, is that the source of the problem cannot be blamed on any one leader — the root cause, the perpetrators — and his comments about how evil is the victim of the stochastic violence. The violence happens, everyone says that only the violent person is to blame, and the root cause gets away scot-free. He may continue to urge on additional stochastic terror or violence with impunity. Literally. The guns are traceable, but the violence cannot be traced back to any one source, so that is untraceable. A week or so later, another stochastic act of random violence occurs again. And the cycle continues until society finally accepts the root cause of the violence.

Why so many odd ball rifles over 60 years old?
Private sales?
Do they think they are untraceable?

For anti gunners they all have a similar idea on the guns to use.

Its not the US side that’s a problem its the other nations. Western nations do not find this a problem. When the US asks for a simple background check they just print it out and send it off. But with third world nations they have trouble giving out birth certificates let alone doing a full background check on someone.

I know for a fact the Mexico wanted the US or the person having the background check done on them to pay the fees and those could amount to thousands of dollars. All because they do not have a unified system, each department and every city or state wanted paid first.
People blame America for having way to many restrictions or requirements.
We are the very same as every other western nation but we are asked to skip those simple requirements because they are poor.

It could take weeks to get a simple drivers license in Mexico. unless you pay the “mordida”. the bribe. Its done less today but its still done thousands of times across Mexico every day at every level of bureaucracy.

Do you think things are that much different in South America? Or Africa.

For solutions, separate that which is good for this country from that which is bad for starters. People that come here to build a life for themselves and their descendants are the type of people that built this country. Deporting people that are working productively and paying their bills and taxes is bad for the country.

Those that come here for a free ride can swim home as far as I’m concerned. The key problem here is that it is between extremely difficult and impossible for most of the immigrants i see to get here legally in today’s regulatory situation. There are many unfamiliar with the situation that mention that their ancestors got here legally, ignoring or unaware of the very different circumstances a century ago.

Also don’t fall into the trap of trying to pigeonhole people as in the comment below yours. It really detracts from credibility.

I disagree with Jeff Wright far more than I agree. But the link he provides is highly relevant to the discussion. It’s about the pitfalls of the war on drugs. Thanks Jeff.

E-Verify depends on a corrupted SSN database that never, since it’s initial design as a file cabinet, filtered for duplicate SSN. Furthermore, up until this year, there were specific regulations forbidding cross referencing the SSN database with the IRS database which are also based on SSN. Result: citizens, legal immigrants and illegal aliens have ALL been issued the same SSNs. That makes E-Verify worthless until the data is purged and verified; meanwhile, your 90 year old grandmother will be mightily confused when her SS and Medicare stops coming.

As for “all the Biden illegals”, good luck identifying them. john hare will never admit it, but the “arrests of people here legally” is the direct result of having no reliable means of field verification. The answer is not to give up like he and his fellow Democrats demand; the answer is to do the work of verification his party refused to do.

I see a real problem in short-circuiting the legal-immigration process. Had we not done so, we could be as cautious as you advocate.

Now we have to clean that mess up. Besides the symptoms of social-services and housing-market overload at the expense of our citizens, there is another problem to consider.

Not everyone who comes here “gets it” when it comes to respecting the rights of their neighbors; they join right in with the disrespectful Left and absorb their corrosive identity-politics grievance culture to use as leverage to get ahead … or exploit our free society to engage in outright criminality. Some come here thinking that, while things are better here, we operate in the same dysfunctional “who you know” hierarchal ways that produced the dysfunctions back home – and that is the way to get ahead here. That makes them easy recruits for the Left as well – and ripe for exploitation by both demagogues and the greedy.

A working legal-immigration process, by both vetting newcomers and informing them about what we expect from them/what they can expect from us in a free society, diminishes these problems.

Step back far enough to see the America damaging corruption taking place. Puerto Ricans are citizens of this country and are getting problems including deportation to other countries. Legal immigrants and some born here are getting arrested for not having enough ID handy. These are not problems that will be solved by labeling me or anybody else.

What do you think will be part of the decision process of a manufacturer setting up a factory here if there is a concern about their experts being able to come and go without hassle? Hyundai has to be wondering.

Much of this is finding someone else to blame for perceived problems. It distracts from real problems.

The ammo looks like its either .303 British for an bolt action Enfield or 7.62x54R for a Russian bolt action.

They could ALL be invalid and thus they are not allowed to work.

Just force all employers to use the E-Verify system to see if someone can even work in the US.
The government only has to go back and check all the Biden illegals listed in the system. Make them all re-apply. Any who do not in 60 days are dropped from the system.

No more government hand outs and no more work. Go home and do it legally or get found and never allowed back in again.

Is this the illegal immigrant community or the legal immigrant community? Illegals do not get the same due process rights as citizens or legal residents, so just what do you mean by the term “due process?”

The illegals have incentive to tell you lies in order to gain your sympathy for their misdemeanant or felonious ways. And look! It worked on you, what with your defense of the illegal immigrant community and the call for pushback on the enforcement of our laws. Your illegal friends have certainly influenced your own “public” opinion. Even if they are working people, they are still criminal misdemeanants or felons, so at work or not, they are subject to arrest (just as criminal citizens are) and deportation.

They have had their chance to do it right, to leave and apply for proper permission to come back, even to become citizens, but they have chosen instead to continue breaking our laws. That is on them, not on ICE, not on Trump, and not on the rest of us.

I see Leftist lawyers and judges restraining ICE so much, that they will turn that invasion into a fait accompli.

That is an affront to the lives and freedom of every citizen, native-born and legal immigrant. Where is their “due process”?”

We can no longer afford to be so nice, and we will have to correct errors as we go. Immigration enforcement can no longer he held hostage to the facade of idealism in our judicial system, that is a stalking horse for imposing the Leftist agenda.

Not exactly true. In central Florida, immigration is under attack in a decidedly illegal way. People here legally are getting arrested and sent to facilities counties away without due process. Some are getting deported on extremely shaky excuses. I strongly suggest that anyone interested listen to actual immigrants. Having ties with the immigrant community, I hear about things that most here probably don’t.

ICE is definitely overstepping the bounds and needs pushback. Not with weapons, but with response in courts and influencers of public opinion. Among other things, locally they are targeting working people as those are the ones easiest to grab. Criminals, not so much. .

Here we go #2 https://youtube.com/shorts/hVUrM98ZmDs?si=Rx1iWwlfVfabntgM

“Oswald was the lone gunman” ?