Reply #16: Under Arizona's lax laws, Loughner could carry a gun with a magazine sticking out 5 feet.

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And, a policeman could not do a thing. That's stupid. Almost tantamount to letting people walk around with a bomb and fuse in their hand.

I don't think we need a bunch of folks walking around in public with a gun, or two, or 4. We don't let them on an airplane, why allow them in a restaurant or nursery school?

And, yes, some lax laws make it far too easy on the Loughners of the world. And we haven't even started talking about those who think they are so well trained from shooting paper targets and cleaning their gun on a regular basis that they could stop a shooting like in Tucson. Ha.

If Loughner had used a 2 foot long magazine, 90% of the toters would be lusting after one just like his.