Srinath wrote:
Quote:I obviously dont understand the full impact of the second amendment ... obviously, cos I am not, and never intend to be a criminal ... that's who it is written for. I will be able to buy a gun with all the restrictions they can impose 100% legally, so I am not the one who's protected by the second amendment. Go to a jail and take a poll about the second amendment ... you'd get 100% support. Try the general population - you'd make 60-70% ... its for criminals mainly.
Well, at least you got that right. You don't understand the second amendment and why it was written. It's got nothing to do with criminals. It's purpose was to insure the the GOVERNMENT could never disarm the citizens of this country and render them helpless in the face of goverment tyranny. The fact that it has been subverted by folks that believe that the answer to everything is simply handing over our rights and responsibilities to a regulatory agency of some kind,or passing another stupid law ( your $110 per bullet tax for example) doesn't change that fact.
As far as registering rifling goes, the FBI already maintains a database of bullets recovered at crime scenes. And NY just scrapped a system that required every handgun sold here be fired and the spent case be sent to the State police along with the serial #. And since in NY ALL handguns are registered, that spent case was tied to the guns owner. After five years and untold millions of dollars spent implementing the system, the government here - one of the most restrictive states as far as gun laws go - admitted that the idea was worthless and a complete waste of money. Never solved a single crime. Maryland has a similar system still in place that is even older. Same dismal results.
Want to know what might actually help?
Fix the natiolal database so people who should be prohibited don't fall through the cracks. Provide the states the resources they need to actually provide the needed info to the database instead of leaving it as an unfunded mandate that they are supposed to comply with out of their own limited funds.
Actually prosecute straw purchsers and folks caught with illegal guns under the federal statutes which are much tougher than state laws. Hardly ever happens. Thousands of gun sales are denied every year because when the dealer calls the database the person attempting to buy the gun is identified as a felon. The sale is denied. But simply attempting to buy a gun if one is a convicted felon is a federal crime. Almost none of those cases are prosecuted - around a dozen a year or so.
Criminals do the things they do because they either don't think they will be caught, or because the consequenses of being caught don't make the crime not worthwhile. More laws on top of the ones that are already not being enforced won't accomplish anything.
The liberal political tune never changes. If the crap they're doing now isn't working they just want to do more of the same. Applies to almost everything, not just guns. It's insanity.