RE: THE Gun Thread
July 26, 2022 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's neither illegal to purchase a gun or own a gun from some origin other than a licensed dealer, nor is it a crime to transport your legal property between or through states. Creating a criminal offense of -driving through a state with gun- would be a rats nest for legality....and it's not like they'd be pulling over bubba..who's doing all the trafficking...to check, anyway.
It would be legally questionable, and wholly ineffective (but, as ever, alot of that has to do with our specific and unique situation and relationship to guns).
We know the answer. It's not a think tank thing where theres this problem and nothing we can do effects it. Those handguns showing up in chicago - out of state and in state? Three years or more time to crime. Buy them back. They're -exactly- the kind of guns bubba can purchase in other states cheaply, and in quantity. Thus, it's cheaper than the cost of their being out there. Harsh gun crime penalties are, themselves, premised on the notion that you can price gun crime out. That no one who wants the contents of the till at the 7/11 would pay x, for those contents. So let's do so directly and aggressively...unless we don't really believe that it's a thing that works, ofc.
It would be legally questionable, and wholly ineffective (but, as ever, alot of that has to do with our specific and unique situation and relationship to guns).
We know the answer. It's not a think tank thing where theres this problem and nothing we can do effects it. Those handguns showing up in chicago - out of state and in state? Three years or more time to crime. Buy them back. They're -exactly- the kind of guns bubba can purchase in other states cheaply, and in quantity. Thus, it's cheaper than the cost of their being out there. Harsh gun crime penalties are, themselves, premised on the notion that you can price gun crime out. That no one who wants the contents of the till at the 7/11 would pay x, for those contents. So let's do so directly and aggressively...unless we don't really believe that it's a thing that works, ofc.
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