Kind of Blued
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I'm pretty sure that a literal national gun-grab, or all out confiscation, would go less than swimmingly for those doing the grabbing, but I am trying to figure out why more is not being made out of the possible AWB.
It pisses me off enough that I would be willing to take time off work, unpaid, to march on Washington to make myself heard. This is assuming a bunch of other true Americans were "gonna be there" too, however. I wish I could just print off a list of facts about the last one, plop it on somebody's desk, assume that they would use some logic in their decision, and be done with it, but that would be too easy.
Is the fact that it already happened once making it more tolerable? Why are politicians being allowed to consider another AWB as a possibility? Who is it that is failing to force the truth upon them? What can we do to make them realize that it is not only counter-American idealogically, but also a stupid idea statistically (as far as crime rates, etc.)?
I'm 22 years old and was not influenced by the first ban, as I did not own any firearms or grow up in a family that did so. Is there some history that I am ignorant of, or did everybody just watch their freedoms crash in a fiery wreck on television? I know people must have fought it, but once we lost, did we immediately accept defeat? I'm being dramatic and exaggerating, but honestly, I am curious as to how the last one came to be.
We're stocking up on things like high-capacity magazines because we may never be able to get them again. This is the behavior of he who learned his lesson last time. We are NOT the ones who should be learning from the lessons taught by the last ban.
The obvious answer is to vote, join the NRA, etc. That supports a side, and that is great. What is there to do that says, much more LOUDLY, that anything else is completely unacceptable?
From the 2007 bill:
"a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event."
Humans are smarter than that, right?
It pisses me off enough that I would be willing to take time off work, unpaid, to march on Washington to make myself heard. This is assuming a bunch of other true Americans were "gonna be there" too, however. I wish I could just print off a list of facts about the last one, plop it on somebody's desk, assume that they would use some logic in their decision, and be done with it, but that would be too easy.
Is the fact that it already happened once making it more tolerable? Why are politicians being allowed to consider another AWB as a possibility? Who is it that is failing to force the truth upon them? What can we do to make them realize that it is not only counter-American idealogically, but also a stupid idea statistically (as far as crime rates, etc.)?
I'm 22 years old and was not influenced by the first ban, as I did not own any firearms or grow up in a family that did so. Is there some history that I am ignorant of, or did everybody just watch their freedoms crash in a fiery wreck on television? I know people must have fought it, but once we lost, did we immediately accept defeat? I'm being dramatic and exaggerating, but honestly, I am curious as to how the last one came to be.
We're stocking up on things like high-capacity magazines because we may never be able to get them again. This is the behavior of he who learned his lesson last time. We are NOT the ones who should be learning from the lessons taught by the last ban.
The obvious answer is to vote, join the NRA, etc. That supports a side, and that is great. What is there to do that says, much more LOUDLY, that anything else is completely unacceptable?
From the 2007 bill:
"a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event."
Humans are smarter than that, right?