Does Dicks even sell rifles anymore? It took me 2 weeks to get an AR-15 in 2016. In MD, you have to be fingerprinted by the state police to buy a handgun. It’s almost impossible to get a conceal carry permit here. So on and so forth.
I drive half a mile to a local elementary school, wait 3 minutes to vote, get my sticker, and then some new guy has the nuclear codes. I have never shown ID to vote. Wasn’t everyone up in arms about the mere suggestion of requiring an ID to vote. You give your name, iirc.
*I’m not suggesting there is voter fraud just that it’s super easy to vote with almost no barriers. The same is not true for firearm ownership.
Yeah, I have at least a dozen friends with literal armories in their houses. Stockpiles of hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, rifles, MG’s, SMG’s, handguns, you name it, they got five. This is what I mean. The fear mongering is the same as when people said Obama was going to take everyone’s guns and then more people bought guns during his presidency than any other presidency in history. Nobody is taking anyone’s guns, nobody is stopping you teaching your kid to shoot, and nobody is shutting down dojos. Guaranteed. It sucks that the law is shiftily written, probably hastily in and purely in fear from the fallout of things like Charlottesville, but I can think of a million ways to write an article alerting people to the possibility of infringement on their rights that aren’t pure bullshit. If I came on here with an article titled “Virginia To Prevent Bigotry and Violence Forever with Genius New Law!” and posted the article from RepublicansAreNaziRapists.com, I’d expect everyone to tell me to fuck off.
More a cheeky observation on my end that, for driving, we ALREADY have required safety courses, a permit process wherein one is only allowed to operate a vehicle under the observation of a licensed driver, a written AND hands on test AND a dedicated police force whose job it is to enforce these safety laws LIVE every day, and this STILL does not stop people from texting and driving while speeding through stop signs at school zones and murdering children in cross walks.
I don’t think it’s a lack of education, laws or enforcement that is resulting in people being irresponsible with deadly weapons.
I thought that was an interesting observation so I pulled some of the numbers this morning. I added heart disease to highlight why I think it’s so odd that we fixate on guns.
