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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« on: February 24, 2018, 10:13:33 am »
NRA's been needing to be screwed over for a while now, really. Maybe the ball keeps rolling and we end up with an organization that actually gives a damn about responsible gun use, as opposed to seeing how far they can deep throat the firearm industry. Probably wouldn't be the NRA itself, but that'd probably be for the better at this point.
... though in cases like this, you might also have decent luck if you pulled the GOP's arm out the FBI and ATF's asses when it comes to firearm tracking. Imagine for a second how brain-dead obvious it is these days to set up a system that automatically crosschecks and flags for extra followup various warning signs and tips sent in with firearm ownership, purchase, or attempted purchase, and then realize the bloody "firearm advocates" in this country have persistently bodyblocked the possibility of making one.
Never mind the same bastards screeching about an interpretation of the 2nd that's had teeth for less time than I've been alive also constantly try to fuck over any and every effort to address that vague "social malaise" mentioned. Also most actual efforts to address those tend to either encourage or not discourage y'know, having fewer extremely deadly weapons in society. 'Cause seriously, the paranoia and mindset inculcated by firearm use as anything except play and maybe hunting is pretty toxic to a healthy community, go figure.
Basically, better or not gun control is still pretty good for getting this crap to slow the hell down, and we can damn well run it concurrently with efforts outside trying to screw over the bastards that are doing their damnedest to see more americans killed and that goddamn onion article published again.
But as I've said before, the better solution is to address the social malaise that fosters such violent behavior in the first place. I'm with @wierd here - by the time someone has decided to obtain a weapon it's already way too late (these are not 'crimes of passion' people - these are deliberate planned events).except even as gimped as firearm studies are we already know slowing purchases and whatnot has a depressing effect on firearm violence. If someone that's decided to obtain a weapon has to wait another X days before getting, that's another X days that something might happen to change their mind or physically prevent them from doing it, and so on, and so forth. Then there's the flat, should be freakishly stupidly obvious, fact that having fewer firearms in circulation reduces incidents of harm related to firearm usage.
... though in cases like this, you might also have decent luck if you pulled the GOP's arm out the FBI and ATF's asses when it comes to firearm tracking. Imagine for a second how brain-dead obvious it is these days to set up a system that automatically crosschecks and flags for extra followup various warning signs and tips sent in with firearm ownership, purchase, or attempted purchase, and then realize the bloody "firearm advocates" in this country have persistently bodyblocked the possibility of making one.
Never mind the same bastards screeching about an interpretation of the 2nd that's had teeth for less time than I've been alive also constantly try to fuck over any and every effort to address that vague "social malaise" mentioned. Also most actual efforts to address those tend to either encourage or not discourage y'know, having fewer extremely deadly weapons in society. 'Cause seriously, the paranoia and mindset inculcated by firearm use as anything except play and maybe hunting is pretty toxic to a healthy community, go figure.
Basically, better or not gun control is still pretty good for getting this crap to slow the hell down, and we can damn well run it concurrently with efforts outside trying to screw over the bastards that are doing their damnedest to see more americans killed and that goddamn onion article published again.