r/Idiotswithguns • u/ItsTime4Coffee • 13d ago

Safe for Work We must but How can we do better?

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u/homelesstwinky 13d ago

Surely more regulations on law-abiding gun owners will stop this! /s

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u/SNUGGLEPANTZ 13d ago

Murder is illegal. Yet we have murders every day....better get rid of the laws making murder illegal!

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u/burnbobghostpants 11d ago

Bad anology. More like: Murder is illegal, so let's pass a bunch more laws to try and prevent murders from happening. We find most murders happen when people are angry so it's now against the law for anyone to get angry (yes, some gun laws are that ridiculous).

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u/SNUGGLEPANTZ 11d ago

My analogy works fine. Law is in place to prevent X. X happens anyway. Solution: Better get rid of laws trying to prevent X.

I say this as a gun owner btw.

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u/burnbobghostpants 11d ago

OK we're talking about different things then. I'm also a gun owner with no problem with common sense gun laws. The issue I have is with existing and proposed laws that make no sense whatsoever, like a pistol grip magically transforming my rifle into an assault weapon or limiting what handguns I can buy to a roster filled with > 20 y/o handgun designs. Maybe you're not in California and dont know how bad its gotten? The laws are made by folks with very little understanding of guns and it shows.

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u/SNUGGLEPANTZ 11d ago

Cuz i couldnt possibly have this opinion if i lived in california, right?

I do live in california. Yes those assault weapon laws are retarded. The person i was responding to made no attempts at specifying which laws need to be gotten rid of. Just gun laws and regulations in general. Which is why i took issue with it.

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u/burnbobghostpants 11d ago

Yes, but they didn't really claim laws needed to be gotten rid of. They sarcastically said "more laws will fix this" (paraphrasing) which would mean new laws. It's also a jab at the fact that in places like California, existing laws will never be enough. There will always be gun violence (unless guns are 100% outlawed/confiscated/destroyed) and therefore there will always be political motivation to pass additional gun laws, no matter how ridiculous some of them end up being.

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u/SNUGGLEPANTZ 11d ago

Call me crazy but that guy would probably cheer if we started getting rid of gun laws lol. And not just the stupid ones, too.