(November 14, 2019 at 7:55 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: That's already illegal, everywhere in the us. It's not that we don't have laws, or strict enough laws, it's that we dont enforce them...out of empathy, I guess, sometimes.......but when was the law about empathy?
More often we don't enforce our own laws because people don't know that theyre our own laws and their ghoulish reps have manipulated them into pulling a lifetime lever on the notion that.if we enforce our laws, we'll suddenly become the soviets or somesuch shit.
-and still...you've got that one story. Care to guess how many guns sit in cars than don't end up killing kids?
Fucking miracle of possession and culture. People elsewhere are chomping at the bit to off their neighbors, the fact that they can't get a gun is the only thing standing between them and that outcome. Here, you can buy one at walmart with a smile, and still our neighbors remain alive, and kicking, and irritating the shit out of us. We've idolized frontier culture, this shouldn't come as any surprise. Everyone had a gun, and our kids survived all the same.
Laws that are not enforced are effectively the same as no laws
I have no doubt that there are hundreds of thousands of guns in cars that AREN'T used for killing kids. So what? It isn't about the numbers, it's about (as you rightly said) the culture.
There are two kids dead in California right now because (in all likelihood) because a firearm wasn't properly secured. Care to speculate on what charges the gun owner will face?
Boru
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