If we act like responsible adults, maybe they can act like children

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kinkarcana on September 23rd, 2020 at 12:10 UTC »

Why does it have to be a zero sum game? Why cant there be compromise in developing firearms laws that are empirically shown to work.

For example Universal backround checks, lets make it happen while also allowing for private sales to continue. What I mean by that is current backround checks are instantaneous through an FBI system that runs your criminal history from a Federally licensed dealer. Why not increase funding to the ATF and make an app on ones phone to run those backround checks on private sales for private individuals. Every firearm would go through a backround check and people would continue to be able to sell firearms privately. Seems like a no brainer to allow people to privately sell arms while every arm being sold goes through a backround check and the ATF gets increased funding to track illegal arms sales. Win win win for everyone.

As for the other 2, waiting periods had no discernable impact in Californias firearms related violence according to a UC Davis study and Red Flag Laws need to be tuned to have greater scrutiny as they are an explicit violation of the 4th Amendment and due process of law. Im not saying not to have them but damn there needs to be some serious checks on that system which is basically guilty until proven innocent in a court of law.

These can all be reasonable restrictions that gun owners can accept but goddamn at least let us firearms owners have a seat at the table in drafting the laws instead of making dumb promises like banning the AR15 which accounts for 2% of firearms related homicides yearly... If you want to curb firearms related violence before getting to the actual cause being poverty and systematic racism and lack of healthcare then the current mainstream Democrat platform against gun violence will do fuck all in that regard and people need to realize that and speak out.

TedValentine on September 23rd, 2020 at 13:05 UTC »

How is this funny at any level?

Gatt__ on September 23rd, 2020 at 14:57 UTC »

I hate this subreddits mentality on gun owners. Like, not every person who buys a gun is a fucking nazi. Like have you ever even been on r/liberalgunowners ?