It isn’t lazy at all. Not when every time this comes up we get Joe “we’re gonna take all your semi-autos” Biden or Diane “Mr. and Mrs. America turn ‘em all in” Feinstein slipping up and actually saying what they mean. You might think that universal background checks or a registry will be fine and dandy and won’t ever…
The UK, Australia, Nazi Germany, Cuba, now New Zealand. All had gun registries, all eventually seized guns from the citizenry. Calling it a “mandatory buyback” might make some people feel warm and fuzzy about it, but you’re still requiring people to give up their arms under penalty of law.
It’s kind of hard for the police to act on warning signs when by her account, the mother never identified herself or her son to the police when she called them with questions. Perhaps you’d prefer if they’d traced the phone call and sent a SWAT team over?
Lol, good luck with that. The only thing you can be sure about “mandatory” anything is that there will be widespread non-compliance. Then what? Send the cops door to door looking for unregistered guns? You’re making the problem worse by creating a problem that doesn’t currently exist.
Except a registry is still a massively unpopular idea. It’s why when people are surveyed about universal background checks, initially there is widespread support, until you point out that it would only work with a national registry. At that point the support tends to evaporate.
Sounds good in theory, but how do you enforce it? If I sell a gun to someone in a private transaction, and there’s no records of it, prove that I did.
In this case, I think the slippery slope argument does have some merit though because the kinds of laws being proposed to combat gun violence will do nothing of the sort, and are purely meant to lay the way for stricter laws being passed after the fact. So called “universal background checks” for example. There is…
NICS needs to be opened up to the public. Contrary to what most people think, if I’m conducting a private sale of a firearm, no I don’t want to just trust that Joe Blow isn’t a felon, because if he is and I sell to him, I am now a felon. There’s exactly zero reason why I should have to involve any third parties with…
Here’s a list of meaningful changes that aren’t being proposed that would actually have an impact, unlike what the gun control crowd routinely suggests:
When they said that his trial wouldn’t even start until June 2020 or thereabouts, I knew immediately that this guy wasn’t making it that long. Unless he was kept in a single cell and constantly watched the entire time, either he was going to be “convinced” to commit suicide or he was going to get got.
I feel for this woman, especially because Iran is pretty low on the list of foreign countries I’d want to be imprisoned in as an American (so is America to be perfectly fair), but Trump almost assuredly had nothing to due with A$AP Rocky’s release, and it’s more because Sweden has a reasonable legal system and there’s…
I’ve seen college dorms that looked worse than this.
I hope you’re all stockpiling ammo and canned goods, because between serial gaffist Joe Biden and all the people running for student body president promising all kinds of free stuff they can’t possibly deliver, who the hell is supposed to beat Trump in 2020?
Mitch is saying he supports red flag bills because even if they pass one, it’ll almost certainly get struck down in the Supreme Court, as they’re blatantly unconstitutional. Then he can dust off his hands and say they tried. Whether you like it or not, you cannot deprive someone in this country of a right without due…
Getting Splinter to do actual journalism, like for example on how Pakistan and India keep trying to find new and exciting ways to kick of a regional nuclear conflict over a piece of land that had its borders drawn up by some likely gin-soaked British cartographer with malaria 70-ish years ago, is about as likely as…
The answer is quite simple. There’s virtually no way to regulate any sort of private sales without a national registry of who owns what guns, and for all but the most zealous anti-gun folks, that’s generally considered to be a non-starter. Everyone seriously calling for “universal background checks” knows this. This…
Tragic boating accidents for days.
The answer to that is easy: It makes the numbers of gun deaths seem much more alarming to anyone who doesn’t parse out the actual categories. They make up roughly 60 percent of gun deaths annually. The majority of the rest are people already engaging in criminal activity (usually gangs) and law enforcement. You have…