woodguru wrote:
Actually a majority of Americans including ones who own and support guns do not have a problem with tougher laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable and violent people, nor do they have a problem with bolstering the way law enforcement can intervene.
Actually the only gun owners who support this crap have never read the laws. Apparently you do support them. What do you propose to do about the more than 100,000 stops on gun purchases last year alone that were never prosecuted? How do you explain that in the past 25 years, the US population has increased by more than 60 million, more than 100 million more firearms are privately owned, more than 24 million scary looking semi auto rifles have been sold, more than 20 million concealed carry permits issued and 25 states now no longer require a permit to carry a firearm? Oh, and before I forget, the murder rate is some 30% lower now.
Don't believe me? look up the FBI Uniform Crime Report. If you can.
While you are at it, perhaps you can look up Haynes v US in which the SCOTUS ruled that a convicted felon who lies on his purchase form cannot be prosecuted because admitting he was a felon would violate the Fifth Amendment.
Gun control works about as well as anti drug laws. Since almost every mass shooting in this country has occurred in a gun free zone, it's pretty obvious signs don't work. Have you ever wondered why mass murderers don't try and shoot up a gun shop or a police station? Why almost every violent crime victim is unarmed and why armed people rarely are victims?
What you leg humpers don't realize while you are in the throes of hoplophobia, is that the proposed and enacted laws will do NOTHING except deter people who would not commit a crime anyway and neded no deterrence. People who purchase firearms legally almost never commit crimes. In Texas a couple of years ago, out of nearly 500 murder and manslaughter cases, ONE person was a CCL holder. Only a handful were legal purchasers. Nearly every criminal acquires his firearm by means which bypass a background check.
Red f**g laws usually provide for confiscation of private property on the flimsiest evidence, with NO penalties for malicious persecution or prosecution. They are used by vindictive people to "get even" with someone for a real or imagined slight, and the accuser faces no consequences. Unlike Florida, where the accuser or plaintiff must swear to his or her statement under penalty of perjury and must be a medical or law enforcement professional to have standing.
The majority of people who support this nonsense either do not know what they claim to support, or they are complete morons. Which are you?