The purpose for the thread is to discuss alternate ways gun control can be pushed. What better way to deflect an attack than to know it's coming and avoid it? Now let's switch sides for a minute with our opposing friends. We all know what they want, but do we know how they are going to try to obtain it?
Here are my thoughts and theories:
Today I clicked a link on this forum that directed me to an NRA commercial with VP Joe Biden (on YouTube). This video had a staggering 301 views. Then I clicked on the most views videos for today and up pops a video about stoned drivers, the expirement was done by CNN and posted by someone else.
Not shockingly, at over 1.5 million views, most of the comments were of a positive note about how great weed is and how it should be legalized on a federal level...well this got the wheels churning in my head.
Believe it or not, but the comment sections on internet content is a great barometer for public opinion. Anyways I got to thinking that if some poitical genius pushed for full federal legalization, it could take the guns out of the hands of many, and have a residual effect for years to come for millions.
How, you may ask? Say it's fully legalized, the government would probably want records taken of who buys and uses (through retailers, think California).
Also with the upcoming Obamacare i'd imagine government, insurance and doctor to have a conglomurated information sharing center. This could easily be used for finding folks using said drugs, by a simple urine or blood test. Of course these test would only be used for diagnostic purposes in treating ones illness.
Knowing our government, thar would never let perfectly good information go wasted, would declare that people excercising their new found freedom should be under a permanent federal firearms disability.
"But if it's legalized why couldn't you own a gun and indulge?"
Simple, it would take billions of tax dollars and thousands of man hours to legally modify all existing laws. How many expungements, sealing of records, pardons, record modification and crminal background checks could be updated within a reasonable timeframe?
It took the federal government almost 16 weeks just to print out an extra copy of my SS card. One background check says I don't have a criminal record, another says I do (tresspassing ticket?)
I think it could be a wash, with the baby boomers dying like lemming off a cliff (sorry) and Generation X and millenials breeding a dumber future, I find this to be a possible reality.
This is just my opinion and would like to read others theories on alternate gun control. I'm aware there is flawed logic in it, but in our current state of affairs, we make policy by it.
Disclaimer I haven't read the 6000 page Obamacare.
Here are my thoughts and theories:
Today I clicked a link on this forum that directed me to an NRA commercial with VP Joe Biden (on YouTube). This video had a staggering 301 views. Then I clicked on the most views videos for today and up pops a video about stoned drivers, the expirement was done by CNN and posted by someone else.
Not shockingly, at over 1.5 million views, most of the comments were of a positive note about how great weed is and how it should be legalized on a federal level...well this got the wheels churning in my head.
Believe it or not, but the comment sections on internet content is a great barometer for public opinion. Anyways I got to thinking that if some poitical genius pushed for full federal legalization, it could take the guns out of the hands of many, and have a residual effect for years to come for millions.
How, you may ask? Say it's fully legalized, the government would probably want records taken of who buys and uses (through retailers, think California).
Also with the upcoming Obamacare i'd imagine government, insurance and doctor to have a conglomurated information sharing center. This could easily be used for finding folks using said drugs, by a simple urine or blood test. Of course these test would only be used for diagnostic purposes in treating ones illness.
Knowing our government, thar would never let perfectly good information go wasted, would declare that people excercising their new found freedom should be under a permanent federal firearms disability.
"But if it's legalized why couldn't you own a gun and indulge?"
Simple, it would take billions of tax dollars and thousands of man hours to legally modify all existing laws. How many expungements, sealing of records, pardons, record modification and crminal background checks could be updated within a reasonable timeframe?
It took the federal government almost 16 weeks just to print out an extra copy of my SS card. One background check says I don't have a criminal record, another says I do (tresspassing ticket?)
I think it could be a wash, with the baby boomers dying like lemming off a cliff (sorry) and Generation X and millenials breeding a dumber future, I find this to be a possible reality.
This is just my opinion and would like to read others theories on alternate gun control. I'm aware there is flawed logic in it, but in our current state of affairs, we make policy by it.
Disclaimer I haven't read the 6000 page Obamacare.
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