You simply cannot make laws because people break them...I know this sounds simple but it applies to every level of leadership, both private and public.
You make laws to have a grounds for prosecuting individuals for an act that deprives the rights of others.
Amazing how many laws we have now that weren't written with any concept of the purpose of law. Especially how many of them are just considered tax evasion, to snag people on a technicality.
You can't make laws to stop a crime, this is the point. It's solely a means to prevent the individual from committing more crime. Innocent until proven guilty, does it ring a bell?
Apparently now days, people have this illusion that laws can prevent crime... Worse yet, they write laws with the intent of it preventing a crime. To do so, you must consider everyone guilty until proven innocent, which is a violation of everything this country stands for.
As has been stated before.
Keep them in Prison for the FULL extent of their sentence.
Repeat offenders are a large part of crime in this country.
If a criminal knows that, without fail, they will be kept under lockdown for the full term of their sentence they may be less likely to repeat their stupidity since life behind bars would be a real possibility.
Look its already illegal for felons to possess firearms, I'm not arguing that. This thread IS NOT about overturning this, its about POSSIBLY altering the way guns are transfered so easily. And that might be literally something as simple as looking at a DL or LTCH.
Now let me see...You say you have passed a bunch of laws but they haven't stopped people committing crimes with guns? You say the answer to this is to pass more laws? You want to know what laws should be added to the ones criminals ignore now? Hmm, I think I'm beginning to see the problem.
So even if we have someone good in office and NO ONE good interested in taking over, we should still boot the good guy out? And if we have a bad one in office, if they're in their last term, where we have nothing to hold over their heads, too bad? Not to mention the removal of politics from the SCOTUS? The Founders had a great idea with doing the only Court they mentioned as a lifetime appointment. The fact is that the Justices *CAN* be impeached, if they violate their oath. I don't know the procedure, though; to my knowledge, it's never happened.John Hopkins or not, that report is erroneous from the first sentence, so it has ZERO validity. Just another anti-gunner propaganda piece, nothing more.
Sure, the Seller should take due care to whom he's selling a weapon. And, fine if they wanna make folks accountable for that.
Let's start with mandatory term limits for politicians and other elected positions, including Judges. 8 years total. No jumping from position to position, or community to community. They get 8 years and then out they go. NO appointed and / or permanent positions, including SCOTUS. 8 years.
You have much more faith in our court system than I do. A conviction is not always the same thing as guilt.As some others noted, start REALLY cracking down on crimes. Someone convicted of using a gun to perpetrate a crime? Say, a mandatory 20 years. And mandatory MEANS 'mandatory'. No plea bargains, no time reduction for 'good behavior', no early parole nothing.
Convicted and someone was injured in that crime? Mandatory life sentence. And again, that means no parole.
Convicted and someone was killed in that crime? Mandatory death sentence. No automatic appeal, and requested appeals are limited to ONE. Their attorney gets ONE bite at the apple, and has 1 year, (365 days) from the date of convict, to make that appeal. The decision MUST be made within 15 months of conviction. Appeal fails? That death sentence is executed immediately at that point.
Great way to make lawyers not take a case, anyway.That will move the system a long much, much, MUCH faster. And force those lazy-azzes in the court system to be on the ball, as well. And if the defense attorney loses, say 10 in a row? Disbarred permanently. If he / she is that bad of a lawyer, the system doesn't need them, anyway.
You do realize that "felony" is just a word, right? If the "felony" tag meant that it really was a heinous crime against a person, with a real, identifiable victim who actually suffered an irrevocable loss, I might agree with you. I've told the story before of a young woman I know who, as a distractable teenager, was munching on some corn chips as she walked through a store, talking with a friend. She had the folded up bag in her pocket as she left the store, and money to pay for it in another pocket. She offered to go back and pay for it, but the store in question had her arrested for felony theft, over a 99 cent bag of Doritos. Now... you did say "major felony", true, but there are many who would consider a thief a major felon. (Fortunately, the judge saw the facts and dismissed the case, which the prosecutor had bumped down to a misdemeanor conversion.)Convicted of a major felony, violent or non-violent? Lose their right to gun possession permanently. Screw that 'they have the RIGHT!' malarkey. They gave up that right when they perpetrated a felony. And they lose that right in EVERY State, not just the State of conviction.
I'm no bleeding heart. I don't want retribution, which you seem to be seeking. I want justice. The IN Constitution defines the purpose of imprisonment as being rehabilitation, not retribution. I'd agree with you that a known killer forfeits his own life, but I want a hell of an ironclad case in place before I give government that can't manage a dollar without spending $15 the authority to define who lives and who dies at their hands.If they don't like those rules, how about NOT committing a crime. I know people, and you do too, that have went their entire lives and NEVER perpetrated a felony. So, I have zero sympathy for those that CHOOSE to do so.
For those 'bleeding hearts' out there it probably sounds like we're not giving the criminal much of a 'second chance'. That's TRUE. But, did he / she give his / her VICTIMS a 'second chance' NOT to be victimized? Not in a single case. So, the felon GETS the same 'second chance' he / she GAVE. That's fair.
Now, start building those prisons!
Have you been in the Middle East? They sell all kinds of stuff in the airports there in vending machines. .
2. The federal government cannot stop 11,000,000 illegal aliens from walking across the border to work and live there. Just go to any courthouse in Indiana and see the utter failure of the federal government. It parades before me every single day.
4. 3-D printing will soon allow any gun you so desire to be printed off.
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If you want to prevent mad dogs from shooting people, then abolish the laws that prevent people from arming themselves so they can shoot back.
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Right now the prospect of owning a gun for purposes other than hunting, including self defense according to Joe Biden (who I think much of the American public is so indoctrinated by the MSM, the will trust him on this) is a taboo within the gun community.