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Originally Posted by Osiris
Were trying to argue about gun control please keep your political posts in the maga thread.
(Gun control is not a left vs right issue)
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OK, sure.
I reject your concept of gun control. More laws fix nothing.
1. Enforce the laws already on the books. There are thousands of them and enforcement is a ****ing joke. Start there. I'm sure a few of them will even have a measurable impact on crime.
2. Repeal the ones that don't make sense. There are thousands of them and they are ****ing stupid. Start with the NFA, GCA, and FOPA. Keep the bits that DO make sense if you must (see, I can be reasonable!).
3. Abolish so called "gun free zones". They are a failed idea that assumes people with violent criminal intent will see a sign and give up.
There's 3 easy things we can start doing now that don't require a bunch of new legislation. The POTUS has in his power to order the DOJ to aggressively prosecute existing gun laws, and Congress can get to work on repealing/ammending the rest.
There are more guns in this country than there are people. WE KNOW ABOUT roughly 300 million of them. Those are only the ones we know about. And we have the manufacturing capacity to produce many more. The United States will
always be an armed country. There's no escaping it. You're not going to wake up one day and all the guns are magically gone along with all the knowledge and capability to create them. The cat is already out of the bag. Knowing that, it makes the most sense to encourage those most willing and able to arm themselves in their own (and in the collective) defense.