Reality is far less interesting than the distortions of it enabled by pointless wordplay >.>

Well, I guess I've got you beat on tits and tats both, eh? ;-)

Tat – tattoo, ink, etc
Tit – breast, boob, bazoonga, etc

Also, it's probably both, not just either/or =)

Now, if you want to include criminals shooting people, I've already regurgitated a fuck ton of numbers about how often that happens … and they don't even include the fact that in most of those relatively rare cases, the "bad guys" are shooting each other, which I have a hard time feeling bad about. ;-)

re: private gun sales … Well no, if some guy bought a fuck ton of guns, and re-sold them all privately, he'd get busted sooner or later for being a "gun dealer" without a license, and that's a big bust. There are limits to how many guns you can sell a year (and where/how you sell them) before you need a dealer's license, which is why a lot of gun collectors get dealer's licenses, even though they're not actually professional dealers. If you go to gun shows regularly, and set up your own table to sell or trade from your collection, you're well-advised to have a license.

But if Ned Flanders owned a few guns, and decided he didn't want a couple of them anymore, he sell/trade/get rid of them pretty much however he wanted (I imagine he'd be in trouble if he knowingly sold/gave/traded one to a felon or a minor, but beyond that pretty much anything goes). For instance, I once traded a handgun and a case of beer to a friend who helped me fix a transmission, paid for all the parts, and then paid for a professional mechanic to fix the part we screwed up, hehe.

@bill: re: drunkeness … No worries. I'm the last one to have any right to give someone shit about that. lol

re: criminals owning guns … Here you can't legally own a gun if you're a convicted felon, but the drunk tank by itself doesn't count for that.