NM
Too many laws already
At least the Washington Generals try to pretend they're the opposition some of the time.
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Does he simply not learn? Maybe he should be locked up!
They seen too many Billy The Kid movies?
What percent are white kids who are protecting themselves from Hispanic juveniles?
Why is it New Mexico had far less crime back BEFORE the democrats forced the 1968 gun control law on the entire USA?
Back then Guns were available at gas stations, liquor stores, hardware stores, sporting goods stores, clothing stores, book stores, record stores, grocery stores, Saddle shops, bus stations.
Cash and carry. No waiting period, no paperwork, no background checks. Just look old enough.
OR, you could chose one from the back of a hunting magazine, drop a check in the mail and it would be shipped right to your door. You could even order fully functional anti-tank rifles and ammo same way.
Yet the murder rate was very low back then and road rage was unheard of.
Then came the 1968 gun control bill ...and...
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.
And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law as a pattern...
“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.
HOW DID THAT DEMOCRAT PROMISE WORK OUT FOR YOU AMERICA!
There were very few mass killings before the 1970s. I can recall three since 1949. Most mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s. When that happened mass murders took off like a rocket.
What they won’t tell you is that the numbers are skewed because the same guy is caught and released, sometimes multiple times in a day. Being armed during a crime is apparently not enough to deny bail.
And they will not be punished so they will just keep doing it
So the Dems’ big proposal is to broaden definitions so as to increase “civil commitments”. Depending on the details, that provide missing tools to stop the relatively rare psychotic kids and trannies bent on mass shootings. But what percentage of youth bringing guns to school and/or committing violent crime are actually psychotics? Isn’t the real problem gangsters, wannabees, or people deathly afraid of them?
Does Moe’s bill fail because legislators don’t want to see crime as a mental health issue, opposing a slippery slope where problematic people are branded as mentally ill, Stalin-style?
Seems to me the “kids toting guns” problem could be much relieved by strict enforcement of criminal law, with swift, sure, tough punishment for offenders. People arm themselves either to intimidate/attack others, or to defend themselves from others (people or animals). NM’s troublesome element obviously fears their peers more than they do the Law and judicial punishment. Government needs to make the public safe by enforcing the Law. El Salvador has reduced the murder rate from over 100 to 1.6 per 100,000 by taking the repeat offenders out of circulation.