Today's Daily News cover for 3rd anniversary of Newtown CT shooting

[virginia mountainman]

33. People tend to only follow laws they agree with and make sense to them.

Just look around in your daily life, jaywalking in a rural community? Driving 5 over the speed limit??

I could name many minor laws that get ignored "as matter of course" everyday.

Most people don't need too have laws against killing, or stealing,because they have a set of morals, and that is their guiding principles in life, the law is immaterial to most people in their day to day life, they will not go kill, or steal, even if it was legal.

But when you cross a line, and the law is viewed as "not making any sense what so ever" and "It is my right to own this" you have set in motion a bad turn of events.

Our own government, has long "picked and chose" what laws to enforce. Federal marijuana laws in "marijuana legal states", and "sanctuary cities" right off the top of my head. IF our government can pick and chose, why can't we pick and chose ourselves?

The way the law was written, it DEPENDED on those with the rifles, to dutifully register them, it did not take into account 95% non compliance. It did not take into account most New York Sheriffs being against large portions of the law, and almost completely unwilling to enforce the law http://www.nysheriffs.org/articles/sheriffs%E2%80%99-response-ny-safe-act

It did not envision some sheriffs REFUSING to even accept registration forms.

So how can New York, even start to enforce it's new tough law? Especially when even the enforcers want no part of it?

Laws only work by consent of the governed, those with the rifles, are the "governed", and about 95% did not consent.

And they still have the rifles, and the sanctity of the law, took a major hit. Why have the law on the books if you can't enforce it?

It would be the highest of folly, to believe that MORE laws would "fix" this situation. They had no problem ignoring ones that made them felons, what more can you do? Execute them?