politics

Uh-oh, I know what the next Cody Showdy is going to be about...

Usually we just call them 'Republicans' or '2a nuts'.

that question depends on when glenn youngkin is up for re-election

I'd argue that you could ban anything that you don't have to manually pack gunpowder into.

That's what was available when the constitution was penned.

You don't even need to ban the guns. Just ban bullets.

That's a word they'd use but the actual reasons would not be mentioned as mentioning them would be damaging to the collective American psyche.

When a firearm is manufactured by a licensed individual or company, it is logged into a book or database. When a firearms retailer receives a firearm, they log it into a book or database. When that firearm is sold, it is logged into a book or database. That is federal law.

Some manufacturers include the date of manufacture with paperwork, but that may only be month and year.

To my knowledge, there is no way for an FFL(licensed firearm retailer) to know a precise date of manufacture without inquiring with the manufacturer if it is not provided with the documents that are supplied.

The law is poorly written, so the real-world effect would be no new sales of specified firearms after the effective date. How restricting the sale of new firearms and not all firearms of the type that they want to restrict does anything is outside of my understanding.

Gun violence: a co-location of guns and violence.

We can get rid of the violence without getting rid of the guns. (Guns have different effects on violence depending on how you ask the question, by the way.)

Anyway, policies I support that would reduce gun violence that have nothing to do with guns:

*Medicare for all

*Walkable towns of all sizes

*Ban right to work

*Increase in convenient public hang out spaces

*After school group therapy

*$20 minimum wage

*Ban single family housing zoning

*Ban single use residential zoning

*Night sky safe lighting

*Sugar tax

*End corn subsidies

*Mixed agriculture subsidies

*The world's fastest bullet train network

*Ban gas and oil (with change-over subsidies)

*Require biodegradable packaging

*Prosecute wage theft

*Narrow police responsibilities and hand off functions to other groups (E.G. social workers and traffic-specific ticketters)

*Ban bail

*Ban shit tons of stuff surrounding probation/parole

*Ban charging inmates or their families for anything

*Ban civil asset forfeiture

*Rehabilitative prison

*Provide school lunch

*Free college

*House the homeless

*Fund public defenders at the same rate as prosecutors

*Tighter noise pollution laws

*Probably other stuff

Liberals: Ok, let's fund mental healthcare or a social safety net to solve that social problem.

The same people complaining about this law: REE!! Communism, socialism, trans pedophiles in bathrooms...

It's theater. They want to seem as if they're doing something about the problem, so they pass laws that sure do seem like they're relevant if you pay zero attention, in the hope the public is appeased. How appeased the public actually is, I have no idea.

FFS, we have a social problem, not a gun problem.

Then when you're all done fixing those social problems, you can have your guns back.

If you don't like idea, jump in your time machine and fuck off back to the 70s.

The problem that I have is, "what is an assault style weapon?" because a ruger 10/22 looks like , but if you put a scope on it and get the black version, it looks like . If you put a pistol grip on it and a larger magazine, it looks like , but it's all the same gun. It does the same things. The shape of the magazine does not affect the gun in any way aside from more ammo. But you don't have to get a banana clip to do that.

Pro-gun isn't just a conservative/republican thing.