10-27-2023, 02:39 PM
(10-27-2023, 12:22 PM)Nately120 Wrote: 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.
It being illogical is absolutely no barrier to a politician. You are correct, it would be a daunting task, which is why, if allowed to happen, it would happen in incremental steps.
Quote: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.
Except it literally happens in CA, it's on the books. If the owner of a registered "assault rifle" dies then the options are to transfer it out of state or surrender it to the state. The option to transfer it out of state does no obscure or mitigate the fact that the only other option is confiscation.
Quote: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."
To me it's a media that hypes it up and politicians who attempt to use it as political capital. Even with the recent uptick in violent crime caused by horrendous Democrat policies and DA's the murder rate is far lower now than it was in the 60's, 70's and eighties. Yet we are inundated with these incidents when they occur. It's made to seem that we're becoming increasingly more violent when the facts show otherwise. All the while the number of firearms and the number of firearm owners has increased dramatically. Again, the facts just don't mesh with the Dem narrative on this subject. Especially when it's their own "progressive" prosecutors enabling actual criminals. I could provide you with literally thousands of cases of convicted felons caught carrying a concealed firearm only to be charged with a misdemeanor and given a slap on the wrist.
If you really are serious about gun related violence, then start actually, and aggressively, enforcing the gun laws on the damned books. Magazines holding more than ten rounds are banned in CA, yet I could not tell you the last time I saw the DA actually file charges for an illegal magazine carried in a criminals gun. It's almost like they don't actually care.
