If you are on the left you don't have a problem lying about issues if it gets the country a nudge towards where they deem it needs to be. The end justifies the means you know I have yet to hear anyone define assault rifle. Obama gets up there and says the guy "had a Glock with lots of clips in it" That asshole is a Harvard lawyer and I really am supposed to buy he just doesn't know basic things about guns? No. He knows exactly what he's doing-Rubio
I personally don't have a problem with those. I would add that I should not just be able to loan out my gun or sell it to anyone I choose. Also anyone that isn't allowed to have a gun that gets caught with one should get a severe prison sentence. But then again any law that disproportionately affects minorities is unlikely to get through right now
That's a tough one to enforce. Suppose I went to the rifle range with my buddy, and we wanted to try out each other's guns. Your suggestion could make that illegal.
I thought about that too. It would have to be something like the fingerprint thing on the gun that people have suggested on this forum before
in my experience in my city, the police catch people all the time with illegal/stolen/etc guns but the damn judges give them a soft slap on the wrist and then they go back to the ghetto and get their hands back on another gun. Numerous occasions of gang related crimes and shootings being committed by people previously in police custody/ previously confiscated illegal guns. these judges are taking alot of heat and rightfully so. they suck balls
So you agree with me, that if there was a federally enforced 10 year sentence for possession of a gun during any crime, gun violence would be reduced?
I think it would probably reduce some violence but I don't think the federal government should be the ones instituting something like that and I am not a big fan of minimum sentencing.
If liberals were to be honest and consistent, they would be forced to oppose each and every one if your suggestions on the same grounds they oppose other laws: 1: because of the overwhelming disparity of incarceration of minoritues, this would have a disparate impact on minoritues and is therefore discriminatory. 2: again, disparate impact on minoritues and therefore discriminatory. 3: creates a burden based on mental illness which creates discrimination based on a health condition. 4: sounds good but if the stats show it would create a disparate impact on minorities than it is discriminatory. This is the criteria the current administration has established with their constant claim of disparate impacts and discrimination. If they truly believe it in regards to drug laws they can't ignore it with guns.
Again, even if you are FOR every kind of gun being banned, why would you be against a minimum sentence for criminals?
