03-07-2018, 02:29 PM
(03-07-2018, 01:12 PM)GMDino Wrote: You hit upon the problem with "gun laws"...they aren't the same across the country.
The joke I heard (and used a couple times in these discussions) is that Chicago has a gun problem...it's called Indiana.
I'd be all for removing or redoing all regulations if they were replaced with common rules for everywhere in the US. I'm sure individual states will tweak them (or try to) just like they do with speed limits and other laws. But consistency from state to state and city to city would be a big step forward.
Absolutely this. I push for things at the state level because Congress is a hot mess right now and nothing is going to get done, but this needs to happen across the country if anything is going to work. I push for Virginia laws because we are a source for many firearms used in crimes in the northeast. If we tighten things down it not only helps us, but helps the region.
This goes back to the study I look at that focused on Missouri repealing their permit-to-purchase handgun laws. They repealed them and the number of firearms used in crimes in Illinois that came from Missouri skyrocketed. So not only did Missouri increase their own firearm violence rate by about 23% in the time of the study, they also potentially increased Illinois' and others.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
