RE: For Americans tired of NRA bullying.
June 30, 2016 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If we're in agreement that criminals don't obey the law, and the law fails to ban assault rifles while banning a squirrel gun, but fails to actionably ban -anything- on account of grandfathering...just what is the point of disagreement between us?
I don't think it's a bad law -because- criminals won't obey it, I think it's a bad law because it won't and can't do what we want it to, while doing things we don't intend, all the -while- criminals don't obey it. This is the definition of inanity in legislation, and the only people which it could conceivably apply to are "the good guys" who, out of the apparent goodness of their hearts, stop using the gun they don't -have- to stop using...that isn't a statistically significant contributor to our gun problem in the first place.
That's what we spend our political capital on, here in the states. That's both the hole we've dug, and how we dug it....and it didn't take any help from the NRA or gun nuts to do so. We did it all by our onesies, while they..amusingly, opposed it. The bullshit on this issue has become so deep that it manages to put -those motherfuckers- in the right, sometimes. Suggest that, or effective laws (or the effective repeal of laws) and the umbrage you get from people so very concerned about our gun problem starts to sound like 7.62 flying through the streets of Ramadi. It's insane...and OFC we have a gun problem when the status of our gun solution is so horribly convoluted, when the people on opposed sides..or so they seem to think, are more concerned with scoring a partisan point than they are with confronting our problems for what they are or proposing legislation that could even -conceivably- address it.
I don't think it's a bad law -because- criminals won't obey it, I think it's a bad law because it won't and can't do what we want it to, while doing things we don't intend, all the -while- criminals don't obey it. This is the definition of inanity in legislation, and the only people which it could conceivably apply to are "the good guys" who, out of the apparent goodness of their hearts, stop using the gun they don't -have- to stop using...that isn't a statistically significant contributor to our gun problem in the first place.
That's what we spend our political capital on, here in the states. That's both the hole we've dug, and how we dug it....and it didn't take any help from the NRA or gun nuts to do so. We did it all by our onesies, while they..amusingly, opposed it. The bullshit on this issue has become so deep that it manages to put -those motherfuckers- in the right, sometimes. Suggest that, or effective laws (or the effective repeal of laws) and the umbrage you get from people so very concerned about our gun problem starts to sound like 7.62 flying through the streets of Ramadi. It's insane...and OFC we have a gun problem when the status of our gun solution is so horribly convoluted, when the people on opposed sides..or so they seem to think, are more concerned with scoring a partisan point than they are with confronting our problems for what they are or proposing legislation that could even -conceivably- address it.
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