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taxpayer2000

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19. Why have any laws if you selectively enforce and adjudicate them? ...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:10 PM

Dec 2012

We have had two horrible toddler shootings in 2012, one included a loaded handgun UNDER A PILLOW and a 4yo boy killed his 2yo brother. In one case the parents pled guilty to gross negligence (misdemeanor and probation) and another has yet to be charged (or even arrested!).

Guns are a very local issue. Your County and State AG will likely have more impact on gun violence than our 113th Congress. I am focused on stuff I can impact, notably County stuff.

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An excellent question from Aasif Mandvi.... [View all] Playinghardball Dec 2012 OP

Laws about how you use guns work Recursion Dec 2012 #1

But traffic laws regulate cars. CJCRANE Dec 2012 #2

The argument always leaps straight from "more regulation" to "prohibition." Bicoastal Dec 2012 #4

Nobody's talked about "regulating guns" Recursion Dec 2012 #8

Nonsense, loads of people have talked about regulating guns. EOTE Dec 2012 #10

OK, currently Senator Feinstein is introducing a law that keeps rifles from having bayonet mounts Recursion Dec 2012 #11

And many others, of course, as well. EOTE Dec 2012 #13

It's just RW inertia. CJCRANE Dec 2012 #3

Roflmao RegieRocker Dec 2012 #5

I like the tweet TroglodyteScholar Dec 2012 #18

Funny laundry_queen Dec 2012 #20

Good question. k&r n/t Laelth Dec 2012 #6

I have been saying this all weekend frazzled Dec 2012 #7

Those people sure think that it works to regulate abortion. ehrnst Dec 2012 #9

Its the difference between regulating behavior and regulating objects. hack89 Dec 2012 #12

I say this to the idiots mainstreetonce Dec 2012 #14

AND PatSeg Dec 2012 #15

Yep, but those of us who have said the same thing for the last decade or so Cleita Dec 2012 #16

Sounds like libertarianism... ReRe Dec 2012 #17

Why have any laws if you selectively enforce and adjudicate them? ... taxpayer2000 Dec 2012 #19