Response to Sancho (Reply #2)Sat Apr 22, 2017, 05:32 PM
Star Member PoindexterOglethorpe (1,830 posts)
3. These are so eminently sensible that there's
almost no chance they'll happen.
Newsflash there, Poindexter: most of this
has already happened at the state or federal level, particularly in your most gun-restricted places.
1, 2, and 3 are already the case in most states for carrying of a handgun. While a few states have rolled back restrictions now, certainly ever since handgun carry permits started gaining popularity in the '90s, all or at least most of these requirements have been in place. Now, that doesn't address shotguns or rifles, but the simple fact is that out of all criminal uses of a gun in the United States (whether there was a shooting, whether the shooting resulted in death or not), relatively few involved a rifle or a shotgun. So, unsurprisingly, the dindu who points his gat sideways at the clerk emptying the register of $53 did not legally get a permit for that gun, nor did he legally obtain that gun.
4 has been federal law for handguns for many decades now. Somehow, making it illegal for a dindu who is 15 years old to run around with a gun and stick up convenience markets didn't manage to actually keep the dindu from getting a gun and sticking up convenience markets.
5 is a little silly as a concept, but it's worth noting that the NRA and the USCCA, at least, have something at least akin to this as a part of one's membership. So, I say let's do it, because your own suggestion, Retardo, will drive NRA membership right through the roof.
6 has been tried and accomplished nothing.
7 is already the law, essentially, pretty much everywhere: if you illegally possess a gun, you're going to lose that gun and go to jail. Here's the dirty little secret, Retardo: those laws are virtually
never enforced because of plea bargaining. So when Joachim Dindunuffin sticks up a convenience store and gets caught, while he
should get jail time for the use of a gun in the commission of a crime, he in fact gets those charges dropped in a plea bargain giving him just three years for armed robbery instead of the three plus ten for the use of the gun. You Leftists aren't willing to put Joachim in jail for the extra ten years because Joachim is Black, so applying the law evenly to him is racist.
8 is the law in most places. But then you are too damned dumb to understand this. If you have a gun, unloaded and disassembled, in the trunk of your car and get pulled over for a taillight out in Philadelphia, they still send you to prison for that "crime" if you're white. If you're Black and you shoot a Philadelphia cop in the head because he's a cop, they set up vigils to ensure that you never get the death penalty that you so justly deserve. And I know of nowhere in the United States where it is not illegal to possess a gun in public when one is intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, even if you're under the influence of those drugs legally (e.g. an Rx for some sort of narcotic).
9, thankfully, is
not the law in most places. And yet in the places where it is the law, there is still a huge amount of gun crime. Weird how that doesn't seem to work out well to prevent gun crime. It's almost as if criminals aren't deterred by gun laws or something.
10 is already the law in many places, including most particularly California, and yet it somehow didn't stop deranged Leftists like the one who shot up Santa Barbara from carrying out their crimes.
