mattgm1995 t1_je03utr wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:36 PM

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

You can mock me and downvote me if you want, but hear me out. They don’t! My point we already have an “assault weapons ban” in MA, 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 (they’re only $40) It’s not a dismissive comment, im saying lawmakers legitimately do not understand. The laws do literally nothing!

jp_jellyroll t1_je0d60n wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:41 PM

>The laws do literally nothing!

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The gun laws aren't perfect. We get that. But there is a direct correlation between gun laws, gun ownership, and death by guns. If there are more guns available, if it's easier to get those guns, then there are more people dying by those guns.

MA has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and also one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the country.

It's just like smoking laws. If you make cigs cheap, easy to get, no ID, allow smoking everywhere... then more people will smoke and subsequently die from lung cancer. Even people who don't smoke will die. If you ban cigs, tax them, ban indoor smoking, etc, then fewer people will smoke and, thus, fewer people will die from lung cancer.

mattgm1995 t1_je0ezag wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM

I didn’t say throw them out! Lol taking words completely out of context. All I’m saying is it would do the public and our legislators a good service to better educate themselves.

Also counterpoint: NH has almost no gun laws and the lowest rate of gun crime in the nation. Correlation ≠ causation

brufleth t1_je0u9xf wrote on March 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM

> NH has almost no gun laws

That's rich coming from someone saying we all need to be better educated on guns. NH has many many gun laws.

mattgm1995 t1_je0y4ei wrote on March 28, 2023 at 4:56 PM

Relative to MA? Which the discussion is focused on? Very few

willis936 t1_je1u734 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 8:15 PM

Name em. I have friends in NH with multiple AR15 platforms with high capacity magazines and silencers.

Constitutional carry, no permits, castle doctrine, state preemption of municipal restrictions. NH gun laws are primarily protections rather than restrictions.