A short NYT video (1-2 minutes) of interviews with displaced kids. At a U.N. camp in southern Gaza, children have been forced to flee their homes and live in squalid conditions while trying to make sense of a war with no end in sight.
“I came here to say it’s become clear to me that it’s not my time. So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today,” Pence said, to audible gasps from the audience gathered at the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas strip.
So nukes, missiles, bombs, etc. aren’t bearable weapons, so they don’t qualify in that regard. Grenades are explosive destructive devices, so even though they’re bearable, they’re banned on the often forgotten side of ATF-E everyone forgets the “E”. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Automatic rifles are a different deal. Regulated as a result of the old timey gang wars in 1934. I say “regulated” rather than banned because they aren’t banned. If you’re willing to jump through the paperwork hoops and pay the (REALLY HIGH!) fees, you CAN own a fully automatic weapon. Just expect to pay $30,000 or more to do it.
That and they make money by keeping people scared. “ZOMG! MORE MASS SHOOTINGS THAN DAYS IN THE YEAR!!!” and news orgs repeat it without questioning their methodology.
It does though, because certain types of shootings don’t put the public at risk. A shootout between two rival gangs is not the same as some psycho shooting up a grocery store.
That’s the problem… the word “adjudicated”. Unless it goes through a judge, the guns are NOT confiscated and it does not show up on a background check.
So the Maine shooter was held, it didn’t go through a judge, was not “adjudicated”.
“In 2017, he was the subject of a Baker Act call, used to place persons under involuntary detainment for mental health examination for up to 72 hours.[6]”
“Garcia was then enlisted in the U.S. Army in June 2008, but he never completed basic training: he was terminated after three months due to mental health concerns.[39][40] Because this was an administrative separation, rather than a punitive discharge, Garcia’s termination by the Army would not show up on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.[41]”
It’s not that it will be hard, it’s that this is the same body that took 22 days to build a simple majority to decide who their own leader is. 290 is out of reach.
That same speaker, BTW, has already said he won’t allow gun issues to come to the floor.
The Republicans will not vote for it, which is the majority. Some Democrats won’t vote for it either. It’s a dead issue.
Yeah, it’s not that rights should be taken away without going through a judge, it’s that more things NEED to go through judges to create the appropriate disqualifying paper trail.
I’d argue too that we need to expand what is a disqualifying event. If you look at the Michigan State shooter, he had been arrested on a felony gun charge, allowed to plead down to a misdemeanor, did his time, then when his background check was clear, he bought another gun, and here we are.
Should we allow people to plead down from felony to misdemeanor when the charge involves guns? A felony charge would have blocked him from buying a gun.
Maybe, when it comes to gun charges, a misdemeanor should also be a disqualifier? Right now it’s only felony charges, but if someone has already proven they can’t be trusted around a gun…
I’m trying, but it’s an emotional subject that people don’t want to look at too closely. They want easy answers and there really aren’t any. :(
The best bet is to assume stuff like “ban guns” or “ban semi-automatic rifles” can’t happen, and start looking at what CAN happen if we want real change.
This is why small steps are pointless. We have to change the constitution to take significant steps, but even doing that, gun owners WILL NOT surrender voluntarily.
So now what? We’ve repealed the 2nd amendment, now we take out the 4th amendment on illegal search and seizure and go house to house searching for guns? Knowing that gun owners are armed and won’t give up peacefully?
You want a civil war because that’s how you get a civil war.
Another vote won’t undo them because we’re too polarized as a nation.
Republicans won’t support an amendment proposed by Democrats purely because Democrats propose it.
They also won’t propose their own because, like you say, gun culture.
OTOH - Republicans ARE (oddly) down for throwing out the ENTIRE constitution and re-doing it. The process is calling for a Constitutional Convention and currently there are 28 of the necessary 34 states down for doing this. www.commoncause.org/…/article-v-convention/#
The problem here is once they get the 34 states on board, and write a new Constitution, they need 38 states to ratify the new Constitution.
As a bonus, because this drive is coming from the right, any new Constitution is going to be filled with poison pills that the Democratic states will never support (banning corporate taxes, outlawing abortion, restricting voting rights, and expanded gun rights).
“The most rigorous studies of gun buyback programs have found little empirical evidence to suggest that they reduce shootings, homicides, or suicides by any significant degree in either the short- or long-term.
This isn’t surprising, experts say. “Even under the assumption of optimal implementation, only a tiny fraction of guns in a given community are going to be turned into gun buyback programs,” Charbonneau said. “It’s unlikely that research using standard statistical methods will be able to identify the causal impact of buybacks on firearm violence.”
An analysis by The Trace earlier this year found that more than 16 million guns were produced for the U.S. market in 2020 alone, and somewhere between 350 and 465 million guns may be in circulation nationwide. Meanwhile, even the most successful gun buyback events collect only a few hundred guns at a time. For example, over a nearly two-decade period, New York City’s gun buyback initiative collected just 10,000 firearms.”
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza (mondoweiss.net)
Video: War Through the Eyes of Gaza’s Children (www.nytimes.com)
A short NYT video (1-2 minutes) of interviews with displaced kids. At a U.N. camp in southern Gaza, children have been forced to flee their homes and live in squalid conditions while trying to make sense of a war with no end in sight.
Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Where are they supposed to go to be safe?
Predator VS Wolverine (lemmy.world)
I’ve been really enjoying this series so far. Great art and Wolverine/Predator action. Anyone else enjoying it?
Pence suspends presidential campaign (www.politico.com)
“I came here to say it’s become clear to me that it’s not my time. So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today,” Pence said, to audible gasps from the audience gathered at the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas strip.
'Americans should not have to live like this:' Pres. Biden celebrates law enforcement effort after body of Lewiston shooter found (wgme.com)
Lewiston shooting suspect found dead, law enforcement officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
A home run: Special needs man becomes bat boy for Evansville baseball team (www.14news.com)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - You may not like baseball, but one Evansville man with special needs says he lives for it.
Megapost: House Speaker vote:
So here we go again…...