The issue with firearms is mostly with either stolen firearms, illegal firearms, or firearms unironically supplied to criminals and the nutcases by the Feds in ill advised schemes to track arms deals or for other motives. Problems which aren’t really going to be solved by tacking on more laws and restrictions. Which are only ever followed by people who weren’t the problem in the first place.
They especially won’t work when the Agency supposedly in charge of regulating firearms can’t even agree on what exactly the regulations they’re supposed to enforce are and waffle back and forth every year.
There’s real tangible steps that can be taken of course. To alleviate or address the problems causing much of the issues. But can’t have that. Actually solving problems won’t drive people to the polls for one side or the other.
Every. Single. Time.
Banning guns is the same logic as banning aspirin and Tylenol because picking cotton from the bottle might offend blacks and remind them of slavery.
Legal Guns are actually restricted.
The issue with firearms is mostly with either stolen firearms, illegal firearms, or firearms unironically supplied to criminals and the nutcases by the Feds in ill advised schemes to track arms deals or for other motives. Problems which aren’t really going to be solved by tacking on more laws and restrictions. Which are only ever followed by people who weren’t the problem in the first place.
They especially won’t work when the Agency supposedly in charge of regulating firearms can’t even agree on what exactly the regulations they’re supposed to enforce are and waffle back and forth every year.
There’s real tangible steps that can be taken of course. To alleviate or address the problems causing much of the issues. But can’t have that. Actually solving problems won’t drive people to the polls for one side or the other.
And the federal government does this by abuse of the Commerce Clause.
Guns needed to protect children from porn lovin pedos!