Americans have now suffered 40 mass shootings in the first 24 days of 2023. More than 2800 total gun deaths—including 122 children. And yet GOP wants MORE guns & reject any regulation.
Honestly how corrupt & conscientiously ignorant must one be to ignore "well regulated" & only read "shall not be infringed" in your 2A interpretation?
Imagine if we read the 1A like that? "We would pass this bill but the 1A clearly says 'Congress shall make no law' so too bad!" It's absurd.
Pass Gun Reform NOW.
I have questions.
What SPECIFIC "gun reform" do you think you want?
What SPECIFIC "gun reform" do you think you're going to get past SCOTUS?
Especially *this* SCOTUS?
What specific outcome do you imagine getting - even if you got whatever exact law you think you want?
Why do you imagine you’re going to get that outcome?
Because prior attempts to “reduce harms” by banning things in the US have universally resulted in objectively greater harms (e.g. war on drugs)...
???
@isucceed @QasimRashid
Wrong. When we had an assault weapons ban in this country, gun death rates dropped. When it expired and gun nuts refused to reinstate it, gun deaths have skyrocketed and continued an upward trend ever since. So let’s start there.
America has no monopoly on mental illness and angry people, but we are alone in the civilized world when it comes to the absurd number of gun deaths, particularly from suicide and mass shootings.
You are asking for an assault weapon ban, and implying that it will reduce the number of suicides.
Have you any information at all about the number of suicides in which assault weapons are used?
This is like Republicans demanding re-implantation of ectopic pregnancies (not a thing). People screaming for a thing about which they are utterly ignorant.
It's not a path to effective policy.
@isucceed @QasimRashid I’m trying to figure out what your position is on gun regulation.
The assault weapons ban expiration coincides with a dramatic rise in mass shootings, particularly in schools. I never said or implied that it had anything to do with suicides. You’re misreading it, hopefully not intentionally. But the absurdly easy availability of guns in general makes suicide far too easy and too successful.
I don't have a "position". I have understanding of the mechanics - based on education, *decades* of study, and hands-on professional experience.
Understanding how things work isn't a position; it's a competence. And, it will absolutely change the minute someone can credibly prove anything has materially changed.
Things like the Luty, the "ghostgunner", & 3d printing have changed - and demonstrated changes. "Ban guns" is not an actual thing - any more than banning meth.
@isucceed @QasimRashid
So you’re proposing no solution at all. Got it. Done here.
You sound like one of those people that goes around correcting people on the internet and feeling superior. Well, you do you.
Observing that an approach to something is completely unhinged from the mechanics of that thing isn't "proposing no solution at all".
Encountering someone who has put in the time and work - including professional work - in a subject should not lead a person to feel bad and run away.
It's not my fault that things work as they do, that I understand them, or that others might not.
It is my responsibility to speak up against stupid policy proposals.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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