If drug dealers operate in a state with tough “gun control” laws, they have the advantage because they will know that law-abiding citizens will likely not be armed. They can thus operate with impunity.
The gun buyback programs should provide bull’s-eye stickers
for those who turn in weapons.
Common sense is a tribute to people who have had common experiences in life, and certain conclusions may be drawn from these learning opportunities, thus the term, common sense. But there are so many different sets of experience by diverse factions, that there really is little that is common to all of them, therefore the rarity. What make sense for one group, may prove to be truly confusing for another group, and no common ground can be found.
If firearm buy backs work so well why not have drug buy backs?
Here in Hawaii even with the latest Supreme Court ruling on concealed carry the police chiefs are making it impossible for “Grandma or Grandpa” to protect themselves. Cops here are up to hours away at best, sometimes.
We have a pidgeon saying “Ainokea”, it means I don’t care.
We will go to Ainokea carry. Actually many already have in response to Rule by Democrats in Honolulu.
Pass all the laws you want. We will not comply especially with USSC rulings to date.
The cartels can manufacture entire submarines to smuggle drugs. Manufacturing a simple semiauto like a TEC9 would be child’s play for them. Ditto the manufacture of ammunition for it. (Speaking gas a retired mfg. engineer, who frankly has no interest in doing either.)
Small arms making is a genii that cannot be put back into the lamp.
“A recent drug bust in the Big Apple, however, demonstrates just how ineffective these laws are.”
Not soke measley TEC-9, but the utterly failed, decades-long, multi-billion dollar “War of Drugs”, is what demonstrates that a “War on Guns” would produce anything other than massive law enforcement spending and a trillion dollar illegal firearms industry. Gangs and corrupt cops protecting them would love their new exclusive product.
Oung
“Common sense” gun control would be to prosecute felons found in possession of guns, their girlfriends who buy/hold guns for them, and reinstitute “stop and frisk”. And no plea bargain.
But we know that the usual suspects will denounce this as racist.