'This Is a National Emergency': Dems Push for Assault Weapons Ban Amid String of Massacres

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[–]SoCo 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Pushing to make guns illegal based on looks....to combat people who had illegal types of guns and whom it was illegal to possess a gun at all, but still committed a crime with one. Maybe banning guns wont help and we would do better to stop destroying peoples jobs, freedoms, and democracy with this stupidity.

Making it double-illegal isn't going to stop it, if it being illegal didn't. This is the definition of stupid.

[–]ShekelPa 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

They should make murder illegal too while they are at it.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Might enrage the pro-choice voting block better not.

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No, the 4th Amendment is a fundamental right that protects our other freedoms and we will not relinquish it. We've seen what happens when you disarm the people, such as in Australia and New Zealand. Now they are authoritarian bio-medical police states with no way to resist their tyrannical overlords.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Now do civil asset forfeiture or forceful COVID jabs..

The US Constitution is largely a dead letter. Held on to by a people who largely don't understand it, the declaration, or the values either document espoused.

[–]SeethingPeasant 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not a dead letter. The people who don't understand it hate it. The people who do understand it cherish it. It's one of a kind, created by brilliant men, and has saved more people from poverty and tyranny than anything else in history.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is a dead letter..

While you may not agree with, like or understand the theological point of view, the following article does a good job laying out the difference in the constitution now vs the constitution of today and many differences therein.. the article argues from a civil rights late 60's, but I'd argue it was earlier, from the time of FDR. https://g3min.org/whats-the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr/

And ultimately, the "cherishing it" is to fundamentally not understand it, in the same way that those who "hate it" do. It wreaks of not understanding or knowing the declaration of independence, which is far more important than the constitution itself. One could argue the federalist papers are perhaps a close second.

[–]The_Lear_Bluce_Ree 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's quite odd because the last string of mass shootings also all popped up at the same time too. 3 shootings in 2 days of each other iirc

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not odd quite normal. Tend to happen in batches. Media just reports on them more because if it bleeds it leads.

Only reason these stories hit the news is because Asians were killed and they were chomping at the bit for a hate crime story. Lots of shooting like this where black people kill other black people and they might get a blurb in the back.

[–]SeethingPeasant 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cali already has heavy heavy gun control, assault weapons ban, mag limits, no conceal carry, and more. It only made it easier for these attacks to happen. No one could stop it because of the gun control, everyone was sitting ducks. Gun control did nothing to stop these shootings, and does not work.

[–]LuchoSun 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As usual. Blame the weapons, not the corruption in society.