05-26-2022, 03:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 03:03 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-26-2022, 01:16 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Rumor is that the Trump court will soon negate all gun-control legislation. So don't get your hopes up.
It's a good point, and deserves some discussion.
The only hope, perhaps, is that a law might be passed, and the litigation over it might take a few years, in which time its effectiveness might be demonstrated.
Perhaps more likely, such laws that might be passed would be so watered down (like just a red flag law) that the court might just let it go.
There isn't much hope for gun control, until enough Democratic Senators are elected willing to pass it and bypass or repeal the filibuster to do it. And the Democrats would have to keep the House too, unless they could take up the background check law passed by the congress in 2019. But that too is far from enough action. If the Court blocks reform, packing it may be the only answer, which would require a still-larger Democratic majority in congress.
We face a multiple-headed fourth-turning crisis, with many aspects, but all overlapping and all related to the one basic crisis: the 41-plus-year ongoing power of the Republican Party and the resulting division of the country.
Gun violence and mass shootings
Climate breakdown and environmental destruction of many kinds
Police shootings of unarmed African-Americans
Wealth gaps, inequality, lack of health care, national debt caused by tax cuts
Covid and other pandemics
Conspiracy theory culture and the decline of truth, fueled by social media
The threat to democracy, rising militia groups, the threat of civil war
There is also the worldwide battle of democracy against deadly autocracy, including in the USA itself where autocracy is being encouraged by Donald Trump and his attempted coup; a worldwide battle which has led to the war in Ukraine and may lead to more wars or world war. This worldwide trend is partly due to Donald Trump's example, who has many imitators, as well as Trump's encouragement of Mad Vlad Putin. These tyrants also cause refugees, which in turn give further excuses for the rise and popularity of still more nationalist and racist tyrants, including Trump and his Republican Party.