05-02-2023, 11:10 PM
sekker wrote:
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But why do the politicians continue to craft, and pass legislation that they know violates the Constitution, and violates Civil Rights?
You can knock out quite a lot of the gun violence by these same politicians crafting and passing legislation that requires District Attorney to prosecute EVERY firearms violation. And to remove bail as an option for violent firearms offendors so they can't continue to terrorize their communities and re-offend while waiting on court for the first offense.
I don't see any Civil Rights violations in that, do you? Once you are about a pre-teen, you know that commiting a crime with a firearm in not OK, and you "should" get in trouble. Once the message is loud and clear that you WILL get in trouble, and its serious, lots of that behavior will stop. Either because the penalty is too steep for the gain, or you are behind bars because you can't behave properly in public.
The same cities rife with gun violence are the ones not dealing with the criminals, especially the repeat offendors. Why are so many people unwilling to punish those causing the trouble? Might get ugly for a generation, but it will pass.
No amount of laws will solve the problem if you never enforce them. Hunter Biden lied on a 4473 form. That's a 10 year sentence. It is even literally a signed confession. Nothing was done. In the national news, and nothing was done. It sends a message that these laws aren't serious, and we aren't serious about solving these problems.
No, no, no. You refuse to answer my questions because you know I'm right. There ARE solutions that will work and are Constitutional.
Tell me, do you want our kids to be safe in schools or not?
Absolutely I want our kids safe in schools. I never said I didn't. Please show me where I said I didn't. I have no issue with background checks, or reasonable close ended waiting periods. The bogus "assault weapon" hysteria is essentially made-up though, as the numbers of deaths FROM them is a fraction of a percent. They aren't the problem. Narrowing the issue down to a few hundred deaths a year driving everything is doing a massive dis-service to the cause of lessening firearms violence though, because knowledgeable people who have looked at the actual raw data that gets cherry picked over know they aren't the problem.
The shoulder brace BS? 3 cases where they have been used in a crime. Out of between 10 and 40 million braces. The ATF acknowledges this in their own ddocuments.
The stumbling block is that it is a very visceral emotional issue, and that is blinding so many people on both sides.
I notice no one but me is touching on politicians knowingly violating civil rights. As long as they don't bother you, it's OK?