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Gun Culture
Mar. 24th, 2013 01:26 pmSo the US just passed a series of gun laws added to the continuing resolution to fund the government. The laws, broadly, include the following:
1. Forbids anyone from asking gun dealers to keep an inventory of their goods, making it impossible to know if any weapons are missing or stolen.
2. Instructs the ATF to ensure that information they collect on the use of guns in crimes cannot be used in research involving gun use.
3. Locks down a broad definition of the types of weapons that are considered antiques and collectables, making it easier to buy, sell, and import these weapons and their ammunition.
4. Forbids the ATF from pulling a gun license from a dealer just because they don't see any legitimate business activity and suspect that the dealer is engaged in a criminal enterprise.
Look, I understand that Americans need gun laws because of your collective lunacy that one day some black guy is going to declare himself Godking and you'll have to rise up against him and shoot American police and military in a Red Dawn/Mad Max fantasy for liberty or something equally nonsensical, but really? Is it not obvious that these laws are absolutely designed to allow weapon manufacturers to sell weapons without any kind of oversight? Avocados and Legos have more oversight and regulation than the sale of something that is designed to put a bullet through the brain of a toddlers. Is this a healthy, modern society, where if you don't go around heavily armed all the time, you think you'll get shot? Shouldn't fixing that be the priority, as opposed to adding more opportunities for unfettered lethality?
1. Forbids anyone from asking gun dealers to keep an inventory of their goods, making it impossible to know if any weapons are missing or stolen.
2. Instructs the ATF to ensure that information they collect on the use of guns in crimes cannot be used in research involving gun use.
3. Locks down a broad definition of the types of weapons that are considered antiques and collectables, making it easier to buy, sell, and import these weapons and their ammunition.
4. Forbids the ATF from pulling a gun license from a dealer just because they don't see any legitimate business activity and suspect that the dealer is engaged in a criminal enterprise.
Look, I understand that Americans need gun laws because of your collective lunacy that one day some black guy is going to declare himself Godking and you'll have to rise up against him and shoot American police and military in a Red Dawn/Mad Max fantasy for liberty or something equally nonsensical, but really? Is it not obvious that these laws are absolutely designed to allow weapon manufacturers to sell weapons without any kind of oversight? Avocados and Legos have more oversight and regulation than the sale of something that is designed to put a bullet through the brain of a toddlers. Is this a healthy, modern society, where if you don't go around heavily armed all the time, you think you'll get shot? Shouldn't fixing that be the priority, as opposed to adding more opportunities for unfettered lethality?
