We have been over this and over this...so let's do it again ThePodocasts style! There is no debate on the second amendment no matter how much you wish there to be. An estimated 500-600 million firearms are in the hands of private citizens in this country, and we aren't giving them back. How do you plan on enforcing whatever laws you pass?
RT around 9 minutes
Been saying this for years.
It's fiscally, mathematically and logistically impossible to remove 400 million (is it really up to 500 now?) guns from private hands. So no matter how much gun grabbers screech about it, it's never going to be a reality.
A not so new wrinkle however, lies with my longstanding belief that there is much more to fear from far Right proto-fascists like Trump when it comes to actions of this nature, because without question, a fascist dictatorship is always the shortest route to mass confiscation attempts on firearms.
Still, it's never going to succeed, I just believe that authoritarians are more fond of trying to take away guns than your typical mealy-mouthed garden variety Democrat type gun grabber.
The far Right is fond of passing laws and making court determinations that ensure gun rights but the problem with that is, once full power is seized, all of that is out the window because the Constitution is out the window, Congress is a rubber stamp, and the rule of law ceases to exist. If you want to argue that lefty type authoritarians are just as bad or worse, you probably wouldn't get much pushback from me because...ehhh, it's a tossup.
As a lefty gun owner, I am annoyed by the anti-gun faction in the Democratic Party, but I sneer at their effectiveness because they don't sell the idea of regulation or protection, they are trying to sell total bans and confiscation. That only speaks to the somewhat fragmented clique of fellow travelers. Most of the general public seem to be more in favor of stuff like background checks and even then, it is more a wish to have better enforcement of gun laws already on the books, at least once they are more aware of what those laws are.
(HINT! Most of them are not aware!)
The gun grabbers
ARE the lefty authoritarians!
I did not watch the clip because for me this is more about the general idea of the 2A, not some YouTuber's personal stump speech.
Folks on the liberal and left can be educated about making their peace with the 2A.
I've seen it happen many times.
To answer the question: How do you plan on enforcing whatever laws you pass?
How do they plan on enforcing it? Same way every other authoritarian does, think Volstead Act, War on Drugs.
Same level of astoundingly expensive failure! Same self-serving self-dealing creation of cottage industries, same phony and at least somewhat privatized penal infrastructure, same self-defeating creation of new agencies to do the job, with the same nudge nudge wink wink acknowledgment that success would doom the agency and all the JOBS CREATED by them.
(Think private prisons - - do they REALLY want to see corrections and rehabilitation and a drop in crime? Hell no, they'd be out of business!)
To close, there are some who think the solution to "the gun problem" isn't even found in government at all.
Insurance, they say, is the key. I am not going to volunteer an opinion on that just yet because I don't feel well enough informed on it. But it does seem that if insurance were to be a factor, the insurance industry would NOT want to see guns go away. They'd want customers and the free market* would pressure costs down.
(*Ehhhh, maybe...maybe not.)
