May 18
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn commented on
New Gun Enthusiast....
@67
Yet somehow, every time one of these fuckheads "accidentally" shoots their kid, spouse, friend, neighbor, or self, no charges are filed. Why is that?
@65
What's so hard about punishing those who violate all four rules?
And then we have the problem that anybody who wants a gun may have one, regardless of how ignorant they are. Because the bizarre misinterpretation of the Second Amendment that the NRA has promoted in the last 10-15 years says that you can't make gun buyers meet any minimum standards. You have to let any fuckhead who wants one have a gun. Why can't we have mandatory training, and then punish those who don't follow the rules they were taught? Including stripping them of their right to a gun?
The both of you are twisting yourself in knots, pretending on the one hand you believe in responsible gun ownership, while on the other hand pretending that we can't hold gun owners accountable for their actions. And ignoring the role of the NRA in preventing meaningful reform that would make it possible to hold gun owners accountable.
The NRA tries to convince the public that they support enforcing exiting law, while at the same time exerting every influence they have to prevent law enforcement from doing their job. Which explains why most cops support the slate of various gun reforms that have been proposed, in spite of the NRA's lies.
The NRA is the criminal's best friend.
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May 18
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn commented on
New Gun Enthusiast....
@64
We somehow manage to put thieves and murderers in jail without assigning a cop to every human capable of stealing or killing. We even manage to punish people who run stop signs without having a traffic cop sitting in the passenger seat of ever car.
You know, every time these gun safety suggestions (or rules as you call them) are violated, there is a loud "bang" sound, and a hole appears in whatever was in front of the gun. The gun even smokes! You have evidence the "rule" was violated in the form of a fucking literal smoking gun. Doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to solve the crime.
So I don't see the problem here. Punishing people who violate fundamental gun safety "rules" [sic] is, if anything, easier than most other laws that we enforce. Can you point out anything that might make this a difficult law enforcement task?
The only obstacle I see is the fucking NRA. They're the ones who continually insist on these being mere gun safety suggestions instead of letting us turn them into real rules.
The NRA thinks gun safety is nice, but not necessary. That's the whole problem.
A corollary is mandatory liability insurance for gun owners, which, again, would be absurdly cheap for responsible gun owners and unaffordable for all the heavily armed fuckheads we have running around. Which would tend to disarm the fuckhaeds, as it should be.
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May 18
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn commented on
New Gun Enthusiast....
@51
I like these suggestions very much. What if we made these 'four suggestions for gun safety' into actual rules? And enforced them? With laws? And penalties for violating them?
Responsible gun owners are already doing these four things, so they'd never even notice. It's only the fuckheads who would suddenly feel the intrusive hand of big government harshing on their fun. But what would be wrong with that?