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Buckeyeblue

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37. If guns are illegal anyone with a gun would be a criminal...

Fri May 27, 2022, 04:11 PM

May 2022

That's not a talking point, that's logic. I don't think the premise of speed limits and gun bans is the same. Anytime we have outright banned anything, we fail to consider that the demand still exists. Then you create a counterculture whose sole aim is to satisfy that demand. And they no longer have to work within established rules, regulations etc to do so.

Instead you could use legal hurdles to slow people down. If it takes 10 days to get a gun, and that person has to get a license and insurance, maybe that person is in a different state of mind when they finally get the gun.

I'm just try to present policy ideas.

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All assault weapons should be banned [View all] wildman76 May 2022 OP

For awhile they were, then the ban expired. Ocelot II May 2022 #1

No. They were grandfathered Kaleva May 2022 #6

Also, manufacturers renamed them and removed a few features fescuerescue May 2022 #33

Yes Kaleva May 2022 #39

We could reinstate and improve. gldstwmn May 2022 #8

I bought my first AR during the so-called ban SYFROYH May 2022 #13

Ownership was not banned hack89 May 2022 #31

The manufacturers had the audacity to start selling even more! fescuerescue May 2022 #34

It is not a crime to violate the "spirit" of the law hack89 May 2022 #35

That loophole needs to be fixed fescuerescue May 2022 #36

Given the current state of the Senate, that is highly unlikely hack89 May 2022 #38

Prosecuted for what? MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #42

I'm sure that's a comfort to their victims. fescuerescue May 2022 #49

And I'm sure it's not. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #52

I don't care. If a prosecutor can't find a violation fescuerescue May 2022 #53

Spoken like a true authoritarian. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #54

Damn right! 3catwoman3 May 2022 #2

Assault weapons, automatic weapons, semi automatic weapons, and handguns, too. Claire Oh Nette May 2022 #3

YEP krawhitham May 2022 #4

Hell yes I want to take your guns away! Novara May 2022 #5

I feel like anyone who doesn't express sympathy for what happened this week... Initech May 2022 #9

agreed, because not being affected by 19 children being murdered is sociopathic Novara May 2022 #10

Which is why MIpen03 May 2022 #26

Can we at least bring our police departments up to code? Initech May 2022 #7

That could be included if the ban is reinstated. Congress could appropriate funds. gldstwmn May 2022 #12

Our gun laws are so ass backwards that it's unbelievable. Initech May 2022 #14

I am not advocating banning all guns. gldstwmn May 2022 #15

Make sure that it is illegal for gun manufacturers to sell to civilians too. LiberalFighter May 2022 #11

Banning things doesn't work well Buckeyeblue May 2022 #16

That sounds nice Hav May 2022 #17

But that's my point. It's too easy to buy a gun. Buckeyeblue May 2022 #27

Ah well that argument seems clever but... Voltaire2 May 2022 #18

Not trying to be clever. Trying to be realistic. Buckeyeblue May 2022 #29

The Aussies did a pretty good job. Buybacks and outlawing assault weapons cut their homicides. nt albacore May 2022 #19

Maybe. If all we are going for is assault weapons. Buckeyeblue May 2022 #30

Republicans are the biggest roadblocks to ANY fucking thing good for this country. nt albacore May 2022 #41

Too many people fucking speed jcgoldie May 2022 #20

Well by definition that must be true, right? PTWB May 2022 #32

If guns are illegal anyone with a gun would be a criminal... Buckeyeblue May 2022 #37

Need Clearer Definition of Banned Weapons Gimble May 2022 #21

What do you think of Sen. Diane Feinstein's definition? Brother Buzz May 2022 #25

Welcome to DU. Good Post. Tommymac May 2022 #43

Very well said and thank you! Rhiannon12866 May 2022 #48

assault weapon IS NOT VAGUE llashram May 2022 #50

Hunting rifles, shotguns should be the only ones available with a instant background check. roamer65 May 2022 #22

I agree. shrike3 May 2022 #28

I would rather form a well trained militia 48656c6c6f20 May 2022 #23

Seriously, a large number of the 'Well Trained' Continental Militias in the 1770s DID NOT HAVE GUNS Tommymac May 2022 #44

Call them "industrial-strength child-killing machines" lastlib May 2022 #24

Too late. Best thing they can do now is tax the shit out of anything that has to do with guns. Emile May 2022 #40

They are here in California Zeitghost May 2022 #45

OK let's do nothing then, that will work wildman76 May 2022 #46

You must have really worked hard Zeitghost May 2022 #47

K and r. BlackSkimmer May 2022 #51