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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you trust the police to fairly enforce all the new gun laws that you support?
I for one do not. More gun laws means more powers for police. Right now that is not what we need to be doing. The police would enforce new gun laws by disproportionately harassing poor people, black people, Hispanic people and Muslim people. "Weapons charges" would become the basis for more arbitrary searches and bashing down people's doors in no-knock raids. If you think the cops will vigorously enforce new gun restrictions upon white male rednecks, you are living in a fantasy world.
I favor enforcing existing laws on the books, closing the gun show loophole and the background check bill that stalled in the Senate last year.
But that's about it.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Everyone complains about "big government" and tries to cut programs and taxes etc. And they demand action for roads, law enforcement, etc.
We do need to address funding and government budgets.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I was also shocked at how gently the cop put his arms behind his back. Had the camera not been rolling...
A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)I dunno
(31 posts)that have the least gun deaths and then do what they do.
branford
(4,462 posts)is different from other nations, including other western democracies. It's the reason why we have the Second Amendment, and no one else does.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)"[The Second Amendment] has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."
--- Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, December 16, 1991
I dunno
(31 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)do not have the history of guns, but they do with weapons. Sure most, if not all, of the European countries have solved the problems of violence, but look how old they are.
I had a friend in England that attended church that was built in 600-700AD. 1000 + years later we become a nation. I hope the world can last long enough for this nation to grow out of the terrible twos.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)enough
(13,237 posts)we as a society have decided there's nothing we can do about this problem, or perhaps that this is exactly the way we want it.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)they care about minorities!
Iggo
(47,489 posts)But I'm still for laws against murder.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)riiiiiiiiiiiiiight