12-21-2018, 09:44 AM
(12-21-2018, 09:30 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Getting back to the original gun policy reasons for this thread, CNN has another place where something could be done without changing the Constitution. Liars on forms that people have to fill out to buy a legal weapon are generally not prosecuted, but 20% of them go on to commit gun crimes. Naturally, CNN focused on a mass shooter in their report.
It will not solve the problem entirely. One is still trying a prohibition after all. Still, this is one more place where the ball on prohibition of criminals and the insane is being dropped.
CNN article: Gun form liars may go on to commit gun crimes, internal ATF research suggests
...and that will be a federal offense. Lying about mental health or marital distress on a gun form will be cause for arrest and imprisonment -- and confiscation of firearms.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.