Official Mass Shooter Thread

[Rev. Rye]

And if you limit access to firearms, you have to be consistent across the states. For instance, Illinois (and specifically Chicago) has some pretty strict gun laws. And yet we still have a shitton of gun-related crime. People, including ex-president Trump have used it as an example of why gun control doesn’t work. Thing is, this fails to account for how easy it is to buy guns in a state with more lax laws and drive them to a state with stricter laws.

Fact is, Not only is Illinois just south of Wisconsin, but a majority of the population is clustered in such a way that it takes no more than two hours’ drive to go to a state with far lax gun laws, get a gun that wouldn’t be legal in Illinois, and bring it back home. I personally have crossed the Illinois-Wisconsin border dozens of times (possibly over a hundred) in my life and have had to deal with police wanting to deal with what I had on my person absolutely never. Admittedly, I wasn’t bringing anything more illegal than pirated music, but still, once you actually get the guns from a state with looser laws, it’s that fucking simple to bring them into a state where they’re illegal.