RE: THE Gun Thread
July 18, 2022 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2022 at 3:50 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 18, 2022 at 2:43 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(July 18, 2022 at 2:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Of course not. But I DO think that fewer guns in the hands of people ill-suited to have them has a chance of reducing gun violence.
Boru
And how is running background checks on people who have passed background checks dozens or hundreds of times before an efficient or cost effective use of lawvenforcement resources???
I didn’t say anything about background checks, but let’s run with that.
At 21, Joe passes his background check and buys his first gun. At 25, he passes a background check and buys another gun. At 29, he passes his third background check and buys his third gun. At 32, he beats his wife, gets convicted and spends a year in jail. At 33, he tries to buy a fourth gun, but his background check shows a DV conviction. Not only is he prevented from buying the gun, but the guns he already has are confiscated and his ‘right’ to own guns is suspended for 10 years. Poor old Joe now has to come up with another way to murder his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. Now multiply Joe’s situation by 1000.
I think that possibly preventing murders qualifies as ‘an efficient or cost effective use of law enforcement resources’.
Boru
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