Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Coerced_onto_reddit t1_je01kay wrote

Reply to comment by Clamgravy in Teenagers arrested in now famous State Police rifle theft! by Hoosac_Love

I’m not pro or anti gun - I definitely think there needs to be more effective regulation - but one thing that I see often is a dismissal of a comment like this guy’s. Something like “people writing the legislation obviously don’t know anything about guns!”

If some time is taken to gain education about the weapons and their characteristics, it would probably make it easier to draft more specific (and hopefully effective) legislation. It would also take away the “you don’t know anything about guns!” Defense used by a lot of pro gun people/groups whenever this conversation inevitably rears its ugly head again

15

TzarKazm t1_je02adk wrote

Yea I have had thus conversation more than once with my MIL. "They should ban assault weapons. " "ok, what does that mean?" "You know, the assault ones."

I don't own any guns so I don't have any skin in the game, but it's tough to have a productive discussion when one person has no idea what they even want.

10

mattgm1995 t1_je03mp8 wrote

They don’t! My point is they ban “assault weapons” but you can still buy a SCAR in MA, you can still by an AR15 in MA, you can still get large capacity mags as long as they were made before 1994 in MA. It’s not dismissive, im saying lawmakers legitimately do not understand. The laws do literally nothing!

9

DarthT15 t1_je0uqvx wrote

>The laws do literally nothing!

Laws are nothing but opinions with the backing of jackbooted thugs

4