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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear Fortunetellers Who Already Know What Legislation The Senate Will
or will not pass this coming session
. and what laws Obama will or will not sign in his term that is only just starting
.
Can you please give me the lottery numbers?
Apparently some posters have seen the future and know there won't be any positive gun legislation for instance.
So if you could give me the lottery numbers, I'll split the money with you.
BTW, were you born with this special ability or did it start in puberty?
Kthnxbai!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The phrase "Can you count to sixty?" will be popular around here.
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)The current discussions regarding the potential implementation of an AWB, or a mag ban, indicate a clear lack of understanding of the nature of firearms crime. Likewise, the response given by those who study or research such information (Normally RKBA folks) is indicative not of general "Hopelessness", but an understanding that the current proposed legislation will fall short of any meaningful impact upon the criminal element of firearm crime.
Let me put it this way. Let's say 100 firearm crimes are committed. 99 are committed by handguns. 1 is committed by a rifle. Will banning the rifle significantly impact the firearm crimes?
The same applies not only to criminal mass-murders like Sandy Hook, but to casual gun crime as well. The vast majority of said crime is perpetuated by firearms that already match or surpass AWB requirements, in effect rendering this legislation and legislation similar to it ineffectual at best and a violation of civil liberties at worst. Therefore, especially given cross-party resistance to current proposed legislation, it is easy to draw the conclusion that there will be no effective or meaningful gun control legislation. As it stands, all this talk about another AWB has done is sell another 10 million AR-variants in two months; another 10 million "Assault rifles" on the street thanks to the mere mention of a gun ban.
Don't worry, though. We're working on it, and once the emotional knee-jerkery and "Think of the children"-ing is done, we can start to discuss actual legislation that will hopefully impact criminal use of firearms enough so as to allow realistic reform in the situational/social structure that precedes such criminal behavior. If you remove the incentive to murder/kill, then everyone can have a gun and no one will ever have a -reason- to use them. (Idealistic, but no moreso than "eliminate every gun" and a good deal less invasive, don't you think?)