“A frenzy of attempts at preventive policy making follows each high-profile incident but actually creates the conditions for future failure . . .
“Gun prohibition produces the same problems as drug or alcohol prohibition; attempts to restrict harmless sale and possession in order to catch a minority of misusers yield all kinds of unintended consequences.
“Black markets make the purchase of prohibited items riskier and more expensive, and make the transactions untraceable.
“Bans are likely to be disproportionately enforced among black and Muslim gun owners, increasing racial disparities.
“Narrowly tailored restrictions will push product development teams at big firearms manufacturers and garage tinkerers alike to find workarounds that circumvent the letter of the law.
“And any mass confiscation of illegal weapons or accessories will lead to more violence, as die-hard gun rights believers inevitably fight back against law enforcement.” – Katherine Mangu-Ward in How to Talk to Your Kids About Guns [via reason.com]
Huh… Seems she gets it.
Reason has produced some great content on gun rights in recent years. My fav:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoFKskvSq4
Awesome accessory – now if only I could figure out how to make that work with my 75 pound GSP
It’s Freudian. He can’t fill out the form correctly because he knows, in his own heart, that he is a dishonest man.
What about the trigger? If you can’t shoot a.M9 well stay away from SIGs, CZs, and fine Revolvers. I’d be guessing single actions are way out of your league. Your loss. Wow.
I filled out a digital 4473 last December for a rifle in Kentucky. Last month in Tennessee I filled out the paper version for another rifle. It depends on the store owner as to which form they are using. I’m glad this guy was denied. He gets up set at filling out piece of paper and yells at store clerk???
No gun for sir!!!!
Did he end with “The NRA surely would have tried to put this gun in my hands anyway.”
Screw walhberg, he’s a known and pronounced anti-gun dickhead…
Wow, everyone is so focused on the digital version of a 4473, everyone missed this ” Under a restraining owner for domestic abuse? ”
Restraining “owner”? I can’t wait to here what that is. (Yes I know HEAR would be proper)
Most of the restriction supporters are fairly intelligent individuals. They have simply been lied to and manipulated by a gun restriction leadership hell-bent on the political gain, aided and abetted by politicians and the media.
Shannon Watts is not stupid. She is a multimillionaire who was a powerful public relations representative for General Electric and Monsanto. She knows the difference between semi auto and full auto, The statistics regarding urban firearms violence and the rest of America, etc., etc.
She represents a particular political agenda that she does not necessarily believe in herself but that assures her continued publicity and money.
So I don’t blame the rank and file for having faulty intelligence, I blame their leadership for feeding them The Big Lie 24 hours a day
I think of it more as willful ignorance. They don’t know much and don’t want to know more. They know enough to have an opinion that makes them a hero to their little circle of like-minded people. Once they get enough people around them nodding in agreement, the need or desire for more knowledge promptly disappears.
It doesn’t take knowledge to make an emotional argument or to make any argument in a crowd where people simply agree with you regardless of the legitimacy of your points or perspective.
The natural state of humanity is probably pretty dumb. It is not rational, nor wise, nor judicious. People are, and will remain, pretty dumb unless and until they make some conscious effort to not be.
At 27 yards, from low-ready to sights on-target. At 15 yards, finger on trigger. At 10 yards, 240 grain JSP .44 Magnum, bull’s-eye!
Abortion is a Red Herring. Roe vs. Wade is their Heller vs. D.C. Both are bitter pills for the opposition to swallow.
A better comparison may be alcohol related deaths. From the CDC Alcohol Fact Sheet which you can google for yourself if you want a citation:
From 2006-2010, 88,000 deaths per year. 1 in 10 deaths of ” working age” adult deaths was alcohol related.
How did banning alcohol work out? Gave us NASCAR, but the bottom line is that if government makes a good or service illegal, but a market for it exists, there exist people who will attempt to capitalize on the market despite the penalties: alcohol during prohibition, drugs, 5 gallon flush toilets, etc. Guns won’t be any different.
However, the real unintended consequence of banning guns (the real goal as we understand it) is that to do it, you need to repeal an Amendment in the Bill of Rights. That’s a slippery slope to be sure as other Amendments they hold more dear could be next: 5th Amendment, 4th, the First? It’s all fun and games until you have to quarter a few sailors, airman, soldiers and Marines.
Ditto for the brain trust that say guns under the 2nd should be limited to the types of firearms known when the Constitution was ratified. Fine, doesn’t that mean a house with air conditioning, an automobile, e-mail, phone calls, cell phones, etc. letters written with anything other than a feather quill are subject to warrant less searches/seizures and not protected speech because those things weren’t known to the founding fathers?
May seem absurd, but in 25 years as an attorney, the one thing I can assure you of is that “the law” is filled with absurdities.