03-26-2018, 11:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2018, 11:53 AM by Eric the Green.)
(03-26-2018, 01:47 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-26-2018, 12:57 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: It is great that they are active; we always need to be, all of us of all ages, all the time. It's sad that young people face this exaggerated danger, and that in every school in this country they have to go through drills and more drills and have guards and maybe metal detectors and rooms that are like jails, just because Republican politicians want to protect the "right" of anyone to own and carry a weapon of war.Eric, removing/banning AR-15's from everyone isn't even on the table.
That's right. Bans from everyone isn't on the table, but the gun advocates want to protect the right of anyone to buy, possess and carry a weapon of war.
I don't think the proposed bans include laws against possession, iirc, so it wouldn't be like prohibition of drugs or alcohol, where you can go to jail for possessing marijuana, for example, but just a ban on sales and manufacture. And the proposed bans don't include mass confiscation, as that might violate the 4th amendment. So it's not that the reforms would "take your guns away," but it would take away the opportunity to purchase AR-15s and similar weapons. So it's also true, if this is correct, that a gun-overrun American society will be grandfathered in for quite a while. But some protection against new young mass shooters would happen.
Of course that won't stop Republicans and other fanatics from claiming that the reformers are taking their guns away. And if the NRA and their followers continue to resist sensible reforms, the proposals and eventual laws may get more drastic in the future, as David and I have pointed out.
I have predicted many times here and elsewhere that the longer sensible reforms are delayed by the NRA and the Republicans, the more and bigger mass shootings and gun violence there will be, and thus the cries for gun control will get ever louder. All this has happened, and will continue until proper reforms are made. Only then will we see any reduction in gun violence.