06-23-2022, 06:42 PM
(06-23-2022, 05:55 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: So each state will have their own version of Red Flag laws, eh? And on the look out for their share of Fed dollars. Who ends up on the short end there I wonder?
ATF just recently started hiring a ton of new field agents. Of course they are always reinterpreting their own rules on a weekly basis. Who ends up on the short end there I wonder?
Want to sell a gun now? Hold on Hass. You'll need to get an FFL for that. Used to be the law stated you only needed an FFL if you made a livelihood from selling guns. Now it states if you only intend to earn a profit. What does that mean? It doesn't matter!!! The ATF and the DOJ will interpret as they see fit. Who ends up on the short end there I wonder?
$15 Billion for mental health improvements. In government speak, that means $14.5 Billion in new bureaucracy, new offices, and new support contracts. Somewhere down the line, whatever is left over may go to help someone actually needing mental health attention. Who ends up on the short end there I wonder?
Anyone placing bets on how much this actually stops criminals using guns?
It might address guns, but it won't address crime, like murder and assault and whatnot. It's not intended to keep US safe, it's intended to keep THEM safe. We will still have to contend with crime and criminals, because the focus is GUNS rather than CRIME. Some of the poorer sort of criminals, without connections to get stolen and smuggled guns, will simply switch to other implements of destruction like knives, screwdrivers, hammers, crowbars, fingernail clippers (hat tip the the stalwart souls of airport TSA, keeping the world safe from fingernail clippers since 2003). and even swords. There are as many ways to kill people - even in mass - as there are killers to kill them.
I think, personally, that a better solution would be to get those potential killers off the streets and out of decent society for evaluation, rather than pissing them off even more by taking their shit and leaving them free to roam our streets all embittered. THAT is what they would do if they were truly in it to protect US, not set up new ways to disarm the victims.
So. These measures are not to protect US, they are to protect THEM. They don't give two fresh shits about US.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’