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[unixronin]

President Obama and VP Biden have both weighed in as saying that they favor gun registries.  Canada’s Prime Minister is trying to scrap theirs, because it “became a bloated bureaucratic nightmare” that “cost taxpayers some $2 billion and it hasn’t done a thing to reduce gun crime”.

Ontario farmer and former police officer Jim Magee says the Canadian long arms registry is “a useless exercise to appease an urban population”.  That pretty much sums up most or all US gun control efforts, too — except that they’re not so much about appeasing urban populations, as appeasing a small subset of urban and suburban populations who are frightened of anyone, even the military and police, having guns and apparently unable to make the cognitive connection between crimes and criminals.

“Society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals.  Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.”

— Jeff Snyder

Laws to prohibit criminal acts barely even inconvenience those who already habitually disregard the law.  We call them criminals because they ignore the law and commit crimes.  Laws restrain only the law-abiding.

Comments

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Don't forget there's a massive racist element in many gun laws. Especially in the south, they're designed to keep them "uppity nigras" down.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

and up north it's designed to keep the uppity white people down. especially in the cities. esp the yuppies and yippies and metoos and havenots.

also: laws are more useful for THEM to be able to do something with the uppity types. they rarely do one any good imho when the bottom falls out.

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Observe the Bill of Rights. Pay close attention to number two (2). Then check out number nine (9). What part are you not understanding?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

The part where you think the Big Gang in Blue pays any attention to it.