• Flying Squid
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    -21 year ago

    And I’m saying we regulate cars and part of that regulation is taking away people’s right to use a car when they do reckless things with it. That is becoming less true of guns with virtually every high court ruling. I would say that most Americans do not want guns completely banned, we want them to be out of the hands of people who would go out and kill innocent people with them. And that can be mitigated with regulation.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      And we also take people’s guns for doing reckless things with them. Hell, if you are reckless enough with your car to get a felony they’ll take your guns about it, and they don’t take your car if you have a negligent discharge with your gun.

      • Flying Squid
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        -21 year ago

        And yet we keep having stories about reckless people getting ahold of guns, even if they have been diagnosed as mentally ill.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Which is illegal. The failure to put it into the NICs system or confiscate isn’t a failure of “needing new laws,” it’s a failure of “not using the ones we already have.” Did your parents ever say “eat the cereal we have at home before I buy you a new one?” It’s kinda like that, “enforce the laws you already have before we get new ones.”

          • Flying Squid
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            -11 year ago

            Yes, I’ve heard this many times, “enforce the laws we have.” Somehow we enforce other violent crime laws. I wonder why the police might not enforce the gun laws? Hmm…

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Well, they actually do enforce some but some are enforced by federal agencies (namely the BATFE) often with assistance from the local PD. The failure to report to NICs is probably “because paperwork is boring,” seeing as that’s what reporting to NICs entails.

              • Flying Squid
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                01 year ago

                Or is it because the NRA has infiltrated police departments across the country and they know that if they don’t enforce the laws, it will be easier for people to get guns?

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  The police seem mostly to support the gun control they enforce. Of course, it’s mostly enforced in overpoliced marginalized neighborhoods like all other things.