JoeMemphis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:38 am
A clear mandate? How do you figure? Folks protesting isn’t a mandate. It’s a protest and I would question whether it supports a majority of either the students or the electorate. I’m not against enhancing gun laws but I question whether it can be passed and whether it can be enforced and whether it will solve the problem. So passing a law that doesn’t solve the problem and cannot be enforced accomplishes what? Lastly, people are NOT going to entertain tighter gun laws unless and until we start to do something about enforcing laws currently on the books and doing something about problems with rising crime. If they cannot depend on the legal system to enforce laws and protect the electorate, they will take whatever steps they can to protect and defend themselves. I know people who have never owned a weapon in their life who are buying weapons for self protection because they do not believe the courts or law enforcement is capable of protecting them. Until that changes, people are not going to go for new gun laws.
Everything you are saying is based upon falsehoods.
Crime is NOT rising. The ONE thing that's rising is mass shootings. Maybe if your Governor wasn't spending all his
time going after Disney, he could look at our gun problems in his state.
Also, people DO want gun restrictions to be passed.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/470588/dis ... -high.aspx
How do you enforce laws when people can buy whatever they want and they can carry it all over the place without so much as a permit? I mean, you can stop someone in Tennessee now with an entire arsenal in their car, and you can't do a thing before the arrive at the scene of the crime and open fire.
You know people buying guns because Fox News scares them into thinking that blacks are coming to kill them.
This is the fucking world you gave us. We're the ONLY nation in the world.
Why don't you explain this graph: