(August 6, 2019 at 8:10 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: We have to enforce them, at the very least. It may not be true that our laws have to change to show significant decrease in gun crime and gun death.
Enforcing our laws, for however long it takes to do the work of changing them, where and if they need to be changed, is worth a shot. I think.
-and it’s not as if changing laws will help if we’re lax in their enforcement, anyway.
I think that a huge problem in this, is that with every new mass shooting, every new failed argument or proposal, every new instance of obstructionism....it becomes politically and pragmatically more unlikely (and more difficult or costly) to do either thing.
When my grandpa died, I could've kept his 12 gauge (old double barreled one over the other, that he used to hunt wabbits). To do so I needed to pay for a psych junta to evaluate me, take a course and pass the exam, and repeat it every 5 years. I am not a hunter, only indulged it as to keep it as a relic. Nah, too much work, if it was barreled sideways, it could be sold to a collector as those have market value. I just delivered it to the cops for a few modest €€.
