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> There is also the moral hazard: who decides who is safe to have a gun - with careful work you can take guns away from people you don't like. Yeah, that's my
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> There is also the moral hazard: who decides who is safe to have a gun - with careful work you can take guns away from people you don't like.
Yeah, that's my biggest problem with the "in the wrong hands" wording, far too often those words have been code for "in the hands of black people".
Pretty much any seemingly reasonable requirement we come up with can be manipulated this way. It's a lot like voter IDs, where the problem is that you can get them at a DMV for free, provided you can take off of work and drive 50 miles to the nearest DMV because the republican governor shuttered the ones near black neighborhoods.
Unfortunately I think the only solution is going to come in the form of applying restrictions to everyone. As someone who believes in the second amendment for a variety of reasons, and who owns firearms, I've come to the conclusion that this is preferable to the status quo.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoWe could actually do a lot without gun restrictions by simply limiting supply. 13 million a year domestic gun production is simply too much, and not all of those guns are being smuggled into Mexico and Latin America.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago> We could actually do a lot without gun restrictions by simply limiting supply. Which would drive up costs, which would again just make it a thing only the wealthy effectively had access to.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoSo? Right now any 18 year old can scrounge up $300 to buy a gun. We make it too easy. Gun control obviously isn’t working, so let’s just ratchet down the supply instead. We just don’t need 13 million new guns a year in this country.