"MYOB" is a way of saying, "To hell with you."
To hell with who? The original poster? Society?
Someone in this forum...a long time ago wrote Remember kitty genovese
Wow, there's a jump. Two completely different situations. Women calling for help as she was raped and killed, Vs two people minding their own business and talking about something that turned out to be not a straw purchase.
I'll add another statement/comparison - if you believe you should not have minded your own business, then shouldn't you be writing down the license plates of all those people who speed so you can report it to the Police? Or placing people who litter under citizens arrest?
How about jumping in and stopping a bank robbery? Taking part in hi-speed chases?
From my take, the intent of the straw purchase law is to prohibit criminals, people who choose and plan to do bad things, from making a purchase. And like many if not most gun laws it doesn't help - my guess is that guns for bad people come from other sources.
Who in their right mind would buy a gun for a stranger or even someone you knew if you even suspected it might be used for bad things? Hell, the first question should be, why aren't you buying it yourself?
The only thing this law stops is folks who maybe married the wrong person and are in a messy divorce from getting a gun.
So its the poor law abiding working slob who gets dinged again.