RE: I'm a gun guy and even I think this is bullshit!
February 28, 2016 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We have taken those steps. Those laws are already on the books. It's a -federal- offense to sell crazy a gun. There are further, un-neccesary and non-uniform regulations, at the state level. That's how they got around the potential challenge of the 2nd..the legislation is aimed at sellers, not purchasers...and that's why we see misleading headlines like "state has no law against crazy owning a gun". There's no need, there are laws surrounding and confining the entire situation at a federal level, about which we are completely unawares. Crazy can't legally buy a gun, and crazy's already owned guns can be confiscated. Effectively, federally, crazy can't own a gun.
I don't see how assuming everyone is crazy will help keep crazy's hands off guns, he doesn't possess or aqcuire them legally in the first place, and he already passed a test to see if he'd ever been diagnosed, and if he is, in future, his passing then won;t mean shit anyway. The steps we need to take are to enforce those laws which our government lazily ignores. It's -their- job to confiscate crazy's firearms and make sure that sellers are compliant with federal and state law - they just don't feel like doing their jobs. Probably has to do with DA's and Sheriffs being elected officials, and the issue of crazy people with guns being so minor that it isn't worth the political capital spent...all feeding off of our need to resist diagnosis or keep mental illness private.
I don't see how assuming everyone is crazy will help keep crazy's hands off guns, he doesn't possess or aqcuire them legally in the first place, and he already passed a test to see if he'd ever been diagnosed, and if he is, in future, his passing then won;t mean shit anyway. The steps we need to take are to enforce those laws which our government lazily ignores. It's -their- job to confiscate crazy's firearms and make sure that sellers are compliant with federal and state law - they just don't feel like doing their jobs. Probably has to do with DA's and Sheriffs being elected officials, and the issue of crazy people with guns being so minor that it isn't worth the political capital spent...all feeding off of our need to resist diagnosis or keep mental illness private.
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