08-16-2020, 01:50 PM
(08-16-2020, 01:40 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Lol.... yea right. What a joke of an answer. If I’m not mistaken we were averaging somewhere around a school shooting a week before COVID 45 hit.
An utterly false statement.
Quote:You are going to have to give me a better example than a racist leader of a group that idolizes mass shooter Dylan roof and called for raping and murdering people and spoke about acquiring an illegal assault rifle. Seems exactly like the type these laws were designed for. I would call that working as intended. His weapon was not confiscated for no reason. I’m pretty sure law enforcement in this country has called out the dangers of the extreme right and the deaths they are responsible for.
Thought and speech are not a crime in this country. The most vile person can spew the worst invectives about any group and it's still not a crime (good thing for Farrakhan). If you want to make the "wrong kind" of speech and thought illegal then just say so. Until that horrible day happens you shouldn't be punished for wrong think, no matter how odious that thinking is.
Quote:Aren’t you in law enforcement? Do you think policies that prevent crimes are good?
All laws are a balance between public safety and personal freedom. "Assault weapons" bans, and "high capacity magazine" bans don't prevent crime. Here's the thing about criminals, they tend to break the law. The guy pulling a strong of armed robberies doesn't care that his "high capacity" magazine is illegal. He also doesn't care about the extra time it carries as sentences tend to be served concurrently and the armed robbery carries far more confinement time. So I'm in favor of good laws that target criminals, not feel good legislation that does nothing to prevent any crime but restricts the rights of law abiding citizens.
Quote:Or are you just happy with status quo and the standard clean up after mass shootings and you give up and just accept them as a part of life?
They're not part of life, they are exceedingly rare. 99.999% of people will go their whole lives without being directly effected by one.
