Maine Mass Shooting

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(10-27-2023, 11:51 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Universal background checks would require a national gun registry.  A national gun registry is illegal.  Even if it wasn't the vast majority of gun owners would refuse to comply with it as said registry would be used to confiscate firearms the next time the Dems have a majority in Congress and own the presidency.  You are correct though, there would be some moves that could help, problem is no one trusts the Dems on this issue, at all.  Their ultimate goal is confiscation.  Not only that, but CA already leaked firearm owners and their addresses "accidentally". 

https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/california-gun-permit-leak-bonta/

Also, I promise you if a question about universal background checks included the fact that a national registry was needed to implement it the support for it would be significantly lower.

Firearm confiscation in the USA is completely illogical, no matter who wants it to happen.  Aren't there nearly 400 million firearms in the USA? I'm just going by google here so I could be wrong, but the point is that even if the government can successfully and without incident confiscate 1 gun per second 24 hours a day the process would take almost 13 years.

I know politicians are full of shit and get elected on things they have a 0% chance of being able to follow up on, but confiscating guns is a process akin to an absolute fairy tale that people need to be willingly delusional to believe whether that belief inspires them to vote left or right.


To me our whole gun violence thing seems more akin to my father and his generation dealing with Vietnam, or my grandfather and his generation dealing with WWII.  This time everyone is drafted to be at risk of dying, and it's a big ol' shit sandwich that everyone has to take a bite out of, some more than others I guess.  Boomers made songs and movies about being sent to war and/or knowing people who didn't come back or came back damaged so maybe now we are seeing the effects upon younger generations of being in a similar "die for freedom, hope it's not your number getting called" situation.  It's pretty interesting really.

And much like 50+ years ago when folk artists strummed their guitars and said "No more war" people now are going to pointlessly ask for this stuff to stop.  It doesn't stop, it's just different.  Closer to home I guess.  I've said it before but we need to put the victims of gun violence like this on the same pedestal financially and socially as people who died defending this country.  Make it like a war and just cut out the right and wrong and say "These people died for our freedom."