• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And yet we keep having stories about reckless people getting ahold of guns, even if they have been diagnosed as mentally ill.

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      Which is illegal. The failure to put it into the NICs system or confiscate isn’t a failure of “needing new laws,” it’s a failure of “not using the ones we already have.” Did your parents ever say “eat the cereal we have at home before I buy you a new one?” It’s kinda like that, “enforce the laws you already have before we get new ones.”

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        1 year ago

        Yes, I’ve heard this many times, “enforce the laws we have.” Somehow we enforce other violent crime laws. I wonder why the police might not enforce the gun laws? Hmm…

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          Well, they actually do enforce some but some are enforced by federal agencies (namely the BATFE) often with assistance from the local PD. The failure to report to NICs is probably “because paperwork is boring,” seeing as that’s what reporting to NICs entails.

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            Or is it because the NRA has infiltrated police departments across the country and they know that if they don’t enforce the laws, it will be easier for people to get guns?

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              The police seem mostly to support the gun control they enforce. Of course, it’s mostly enforced in overpoliced marginalized neighborhoods like all other things.