dems want to take your guns

[monovillage]

Honestly, given the decrease in the percentage of the U.S. population that owns guns over the last 4 decades (54% in 1977, 32% in 2010), no one is going to have to outlaw guns, the fascination with them will pass. The older generations are the most gun owning and as you get to younger and younger gens., gun ownership falls drastically. Rare to see kids out hunting with their parents any longer.

As has been said before, younger people are more likely to play soccer than sit in a duck blind or deer stand.

The key word is "honestly", why do you think that only 32% of the U.S. population owns guns? And why would you think that it's an "honest" number?

 

[corwin]

Honestly, given the decrease in the percentage of the U.S. population that owns guns over the last 4 decades (54% in 1977, 32% in 2010), no one is going to have to outlaw guns, the fascination with them will pass. The older generations are the most gun owning and as you get to younger and younger gens., gun ownership falls drastically. Rare to see kids out hunting with their parents any longer.

As has been said before, younger people are more likely to play soccer than sit in a duck blind or deer stand.

Seems that Gallup would disagree with your numbers, more like 47%...but it is sad that hunting is in such decline, wildlife management may become an issue in the future if it keeps up

 

[cubby1223]

Um, how exactly do you get that? This has nothing to do with something after the fact, it would prevent them from trying to introduce something that restricts a constitutionally protected right...

Don't fucking tell me we need to go back and reteach you how our judicial system works, do we?

 

[cubby1223]

corwin:, that law as you describe it will have the consequence of forcing all legislation to pass a judicial review before it could even be introduced. And then after that all amendments would have to pass a judicial review before being introduced. This will never happen. This is not how our judicial system works. It is a colossal waste of time and resources, and pretty much completely neuters the legislative branch, and potentially neuter the judicial branch from attending to other matters.

I suppose I dismissed that possibility because it is inherently stupid and never will happen. I thought common sense would apply and other people would recognize this too. I was wrong. And for not initially recognizing the lack of common sense in others, I apologize.


The fact still remains the only way to effectively implement that proposed law is to charge lawmakers after the fact, as I spelled out.

 

[BoomerD]

Yes...those dastardly Dems want your guns...

Few presidents in modern times have been as interested in gun control as redacted, of all people. He proposed ridding the market of Saturday night specials, contemplated banning handguns altogether and refused to pander to gun owners by feigning interest in their weapons.

Several previously unreported Oval Office recordings and White House memos from the redacted years show a conservative president who at times appeared willing to take on the National Rifle Association, a powerful gun lobby then as now, even as his aides worried about the political ramifications.

"I don't know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house," redacted said in a taped conversation with aides. "The kids usually kill themselves with it and so forth." He asked why "can't we go after handguns, period?"

Redacted went on: "I know the rifle association will be against it, the gun makers will be against it." But "people should not have handguns."

I'll post the rest of the quote later.

 

[Agent11]

Nixon was hardly a role model.

 

[monovillage]

Nixon was hardly a role model.

and he was a Quaker.