Originally Posted by The Reaper
I believe that people with weapons with obliterated serial numbers should go to jail.
I think that people who ship guns directly to unlicensed buyers on the internet should be arrested.
I believe that both of those things are already illegal, and yet someone did it anyway. Someone who had probably already been arrested for crimes already. Likely repeatedly. The person who did this was probably out of jail between sentences.
I believe that people should not commit suicide. At the same time, those who want to will find a way, such as inmates in a facility where they have no access to weapons, still manage to kill themselves.
Finally, I believe that punishing lawful gun owners by creating new, more onerous laws, and restricting Constitutionally guaranteed rights, when we already don't enforce the tens of thousands of gun laws we have on the books, is like beating your dog because the neighbor's dog shit in your yard.
Punishing law-abiding gun owners, violating their Rights, or making them criminals is not going to bring any of those children back, no matter how many laws you pass, nor do they prevent the next crazed scumbag from using a gun, car, propane tanks, gasoline, poison, chlorine gas, ANFO, machete, baseball bat, dynamite, or box cutter to kill his victims. Or from committing suicide by any of the hundreds of ways that do not require firearms.
Diagnosing and treating (in some cases, yes, incarcerating) mental illness might, but that is not as popular as infringing on law-abiding citizen's Second Amendment rights.
So let's all bend over and take it in the shorts because we refuse to deal with the real problem. I am sure all of us military and former military remember how well mass punishment works.
TR
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