Biden Admin/117th Congress Gun Control

[Belsnickel]

(02-16-2021, 12:56 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Pandora's Bunker was opened a long time ago and you can acquire darned near anything you want out there. Gun control legislation will only perpetuate the demand and create a lot of new gunsmiths, right now. Duty to retreat was just removed from the lawbooks here in Ohio and they are pushing to make Ohio a 2A Sanctuary State. On a personal level, I have no issue with someone being required to take a basic safety course. I do agree that we need to do something to protect our children in schools, but I don't have the answer. Maybe we ask Veterans to volunteer to be evaluated and let them provide security ? I do support the idea of addressing mental health issues and increasing the punishment dealt out to those who commit crimes with firearms. If they continue to beat the "assault weapon" and high capacity magazine drum hard again, it will be throwing gasoline onto the fire and create a real insurrection. Now is not the time to push such a thing. The shelves are already emptied of ammunition and people are on edge. Let's wait a year until trying to force something through, allowing for cooler heads to be in the conversation.

So, here is the problem with gun control, though, and this is where my leftist dismay with liberals comes into play. Gun control doesn't prevent everyone from owning certain things. It prevents marginalized communities from owning them. The poor and working class, BIPOC communities, the Alphabet Mafia, these are the groups disproportionately affected by it. Look at the 1986 ban on new automatic weapons. Yeah, you can still own a sub-machine gun, but the reduced supply has driven prices through the roof to the point where the cost of the tax stamp to own one is piddly. Any attempts to restrict firearms will have the same affect. I'm going to quote Marx, here, because it's important to know how the actual left feels about guns: “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

Anyway, SSF is spot on about the ignorance of liberal lawmakers on the topic. I felt like I was going to have an aneurysm reading H.R. 127 from Ms. Jackson, who has already demonstrated her ignorance on the topic in the past.

Now for the whole reason I quoted you, because my mini rant could have just been a general post. I am 100% against requiring training to purchase a firearm. I am in favor of requiring it to carry one outside of your home, concealed or open. I have seen too many LARPers with poor trigger discipline flagging their pals. But, that shouldn't be a requirement for ownership of one because that is exercising your rights.