Posted on 08/05/2019 9:26:57 AM PDT by walkingdead
On the NRA’s Firearms Protection Act:
The act limited forfeiture power of the ATF, gave due process protection to licensed gun dealers, and explicitly outlawed gun registration on a federal level. An amendment was added on the floor of the house banning the sale of new machine guns to the public.
So while Reagan did sign the act, it was like most things in our government. A piss poor way to get some of what you want.
We need some other “common sense” solutions. First, if you murder someone intentionally, then jail for life w/o parole. The more aggravated murders should have a death penalty - swift justice. The media should refrain from publicizing the criminal’s name - call them what they are accused No.1 etc. No fame, swift justice.
Also, we need to rethink gun free “murder” zones where large amounts of people are - schools, theaters, malls, stadiums. If we cannot guarantee no guns then they are simply shooting fish in a barrel.
lastly, we need to contemplate our mental health crisis and how we can get people the help they need, especially when they exhibit Red flags along the way. Dems want “education”, we need to “educate” parents, teachers etc what the warning signs are.
I like your thoughts.
I believe mental health, or more rightly, the drugging of our young boys (ADHD drugs, Ritalin, ect.), needs to stop. A developing mind is a terrible place to introduce a drug cocktail.
On penalties, I agree with the swift death penalty, and will add more to it.
If any crime is committed with a firearm, the crimes sentence shall be the maximum times 2. So if you rob a store, it is let’s say 5 years, if you do it with a gun, it is 10 years.
The number of boys on Ritalin is staggering, scary. In my day they instead made you sit next to the teacher in the front of the class.
Yea the Ritalin use is staggering. I am convinced that every recent mass shooter, if researched deep enough, would yield a story of these type of drugs administered to them in their youth.
Thank you for injecting some reality in the thread for the Ronnie Sunshine Pumper club. No person, especially no politician, is able to end up on the positive side of the ledger with every action.
That was bad. I opine that the 1986 Amnesty was worse.
The adopted son of California, and its former two-term Governor - which made him a two-term President - guaranteed that the Golden State, once more generally and reliably conservative than Texas, would be lost.
I remember well how dismayed I was, first on behalf of legal immigrants, second on behalf of my beloved state.
He chose to surrender, instead of making the DemoKKKrats own it. In so doing, he gave the globalist Neocon RINOpublicans the template for surrender in perpetuity (which they have enjoyed).
I agree. That and signing a liberalized abortion law in 67 in California, taking away open carry in California, and the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act which put the crazies on the streets.
Correct. And yes, “battlefield pickups” WILL happen, particularly since their rifles run the same ammo as ours do..
Yes.
One thing that piques me to fits of rage are the morons who blame California’s current woes on the Democrats.
Democrats are like flies, rats, or cancer; they will take any open sore, weakness, or infection and use it to their full advantage; it was that POS Bush, in addition to Reagan’s foolish- even traitorous - 1986 ‘Amnesty’ that doomed this once great state. Once the illegals were legalized and then the borders thrown open, BY REPUBLICANS, the rot set in and started festering.
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