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The United States’ ... rates of firearm violence aren’t rooted in some unique American propensity for derangement and delinquency. Studies show our levels of mental illness and basic criminality are on par with other wealthy countries.
The only explanation left ... is the sheer size of the American arsenal.
Gun safety education is through the roof nowadays. Social media channels that make millennial gun ownership cool create cultures where gun safety and gun rights advocacy are at the forefront. I don't think these newbies (myself included) would be anywhere near going insane and shooting people.So is this suggesting that the mere presence of a firearm makes otherwise reasonable and sane individuals go out and shoot people? Interesting. Stupid, but interesting.
The only problem I have with the "come and take it" argument, and I really do not mean this condescendingly as I wouldn't have done this back when I lived in MA either is the level of keyboard commando-"ism".
The line in the sand is already drawn. You can't sell AR's in MA and if you get caught with a gun and no permit it's jail time. Where is the civil war? It must have stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a coffee break....
There will be no civil war, even if tomorrow ALL firearms are illegal. It isn't us vs them. It's you versus the thin blue line on a cold rainy highway when you have a tail light out and a gun in the backseat. If you shoot the guy, you look like a nutjob and go to jail. That is how one by one the cards fall.
There are two other ways this kind of thing works in reality (using historical perspective). 1.) We keep fighting the PR and public opinion game and win on political or judicial grounds or 2.) Major economic collapse and people are hungry. #2 is literally the only way a first world country actual falls into civil war reality....heck they aren't even there in Venezuela yet.
Do I love the notion of "come and take it", of course I do. But we need not kid ourselves.
Law gets passed, PD creates action teams for confiscation. Morning briefing for first confiscation of firearms.
Worst case of blue-flue ever.
Yes I know its a fire department, but you get the point.
long article, but this is the closing.
Still, even if we find a way to keep guns out of the hands of people who have engaged in disturbing or violent behavior — no small task, given all the stories of the troubled shooters who slipped through the cracks — it will only get us so far.
The United States’ astronomically high rates of firearm violence aren’t rooted in some unique American propensity for derangement and delinquency. Studies show our levels of mental illness and basic criminality are on par with other wealthy countries.
Other common explanations, like the social fissures created by our racial diversity, have been debunked by researchers, too. The only explanation left — an explanation borne out by a number of careful studies — is the sheer size of the American arsenal. There are 310 million handguns, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in American homes, garages, and waistbands.
Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.
I'm not buying into this. I think the room might be a lot fuller than we would like to think.
I'm not buying into this. I think the room might be a lot fuller than we would like to think.
The only problem I have with the "come and take it" argument, and I really do not mean this condescendingly as I wouldn't have done this back when I lived in MA either is the level of keyboard commando-"ism".
The line in the sand is already drawn. You can't sell AR's in MA and if you get caught with a gun and no permit it's jail time. Where is the civil war? It must have stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a coffee break....
There will be no civil war, even if tomorrow ALL firearms are illegal. It isn't us vs them. It's you versus the thin blue line on a cold rainy highway when you have a tail light out and a gun in the backseat. If you shoot the guy, you look like a nutjob and go to jail. That is how one by one the cards fall.
There are two other ways this kind of thing works in reality (using historical perspective). 1.) We keep fighting the PR and public opinion game and win on political or judicial grounds or 2.) Major economic collapse and people are hungry. #2 is literally the only way a first world country actual falls into civil war reality....heck they aren't even there in Venezuela yet.
Do I love the notion of "come and take it", of course I do. But we need not kid ourselves.
I agree...look at what happened at the Bundy standoff...how many LEO's said "no way"?
Look what happened in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina.
I'm thinking we will, for the most part, be on our own.
This is how the left works. They propose a radical idea and then KEEP proposing it so that it doesn't seem so radical any more. Eventually they get their agenda passed.
I hope they do go ahead and try for confiscation. That is the only way this shit will end. If they keep doing the boiled frog routine, they will win in a couple generations.