Elections Mandatory gun buyback

[Richmma80]

Kamala is looking like almost certainly our next President. She talked about mandatory gun buybacks and this is a great idea. We are a 1st world country but with 3rd world levels of gun crime. I think we should exempt hunting rifles but they must all be one shot guns and owners are required to register every year and have a maximum 3 bullets at home. The regustration fee must be very expensive so that only REAL hunters are willing to pay the amount. When it's not hunting season, the rifle must be stored at the local police precinct for safe keeping.


We've pretty much won the election already and we must strike while the iron is hot and do everything we can to make America safe again.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

Agreed fam all u need is a good slap fi defend ur home mandem just too scared fi tro down wif di opps like a real man dun kno

Try it next tayum fi real tho hit di invader wif a sick on 1 no measure technique ting have bro sleepin' wake up inni di jail cell lmfaolll

 

[Islam Imamate]

I hope she wins but I don't agree with gun buybacks or most gun control policies pushed by Dems. I like red flag laws but even those should be implemented at the state level IMO.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Because buying guns makes them go away. Guns still exist worldwide.

Also, do you think criminals will abide? You’d just be taking guns away from law abiding citizens.

The answer is help for the sick and harsh punishment for people that commit gun violence.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

People still responding sincerely to this guy's threads lmao

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Nah, man.

Nah.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Because buying guns makes them go away. Guns still exist worldwide.

Also, do you think criminals will abide? You’d just be taking guns away from law abiding citizens.

The answer is help for the sick and harsh punishment for people that commit gun violence.

It's terrifying here in the UK with marauding gangs of gun crimers everywhere.

I was shot just this morning and will likely be shot again before sleep.

 

[HockeyBjj]

You know, credit where credit is due on making the dumbest thread of election day.

 

[cowboyjunkie]

Nobody is taking away your guns. Gun culture is everywhere. It would be an impossible task. One side is probably saying that the other side wants to take away your guns in order to get people to vote for their candidate.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Lol man

 

[Daverisimo]

I voted for Harris, and this is a fucking terrible idea.

Let's ignore, for one second, whether this is even a good idea in principle (it's absolutely not, but bear with me), do you honestly think police can be trusted to enforce any confiscatory policies uniformly? Sure, they'll gladly snatch guns from leftists, queer people, people of color, etc., but they're not about to go after Jimbo with a fucking confederate flag hanging from his pickup. The only thing these kinds of policies will do is further empower fascists.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary,"~Karl Marx

 

[PhitePhan]

Nobody is taking away your guns. Gun culture is everywhere. It would be an impossible task. One side is probably saying that the other side wants to take away your guns in order to get people to vote for their candidate.

Naw, one side talks openly about how they want to take away law abiding citizens right to protect themselves (I mean beyond @PaddyO'malley ’s self-defense strategy).


“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore,” said O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, Texas, who has re-created his presidential campaign around the issue of gun control after a mass shooting last month in his hometown.

O’Rourke is one of three Democrats, along with Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey to support mandatory buybacks for certain guns. Other Democrats would make them illegal but not require them to be bought back by the government.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/beto-orourke-guns-democratic-debate/index.html

 

[My Spot]

Kamala: supports an AWB with no grandfather clause in 2024
Shertifa: "No one's coming to take your guns!"

 

[KnightTemplar]

It's terrifying here in the UK with marauding gangs of gun crimers everywhere.

I was shot just this morning and will likely be shot again before sleep.

The UK has never had a gun culture like America. You can't compare the two.

A better comparison would be between knife crime in the UK and gun crime in the USA. In spite of the government banning several kinds of knives, there are still knife killings.

 

[My Spot]

Nobody is taking away your guns. Gun culture is everywhere. It would be an impossible task. One side is probably saying that the other side wants to take away your guns in order to get people to vote for their candidate.

Well then maybe top Democrats should stop saying that they would if they had the votes in Congress?

 

[jx820]

I'm torn on the concept of a mandatory buyback in the event of a specific category, model, or accessory being banned for consumer ownership and use.

It's a moot point because no one is pushing any such policy at the moment, and if they did it wouldn't likely pass. But if we look at the history of this stuff, it doesn't seem all that logical or fair.

For example under the Trump administration bump stocks were declared illegal.

• Suddenly if you had one that you purchased legally over the counter, it was the same as having an M-16.
• They were not grandfathered in.
• They took that away with no federal buyback. If you bought one you were just screwed.
• Since there was no nation wide buyback most of them were still out there somewhere being every bit as dangerous after as before they were banned.
• 5 years later the Supreme Court rules that they were legal all along and if you still had one you could clean it up and slap it back on.

Things were also messy and logically inconsistent with H.W. Bush's import ban on semi-automatic rifles in '89 and the assault weapons ban in '94.

A buyback in that kind of case is imperfect as well, but at the very least it's logically consistent with the goals of the law and ideally it makes the people whole for the product that has been taken from them.

 

[My Spot]

I wish they'd just be honest and say what they really want (a ban on semi auto rifles). But I guess that doesn't sound as scary as "assault weapon" or "weapon of war" to the average person.

 

[Domitian]

It's terrifying here in the UK with marauding gangs of gun crimers everywhere.

I was shot just this morning and will likely be shot again before sleep.

How would you go about removing half a billion guns from the country?

Guns aren't cheap either, so if the government does buy them all from citizens were talking somewhere in the neighborhood of costing a trillion dollars to do.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

How would you go about removing half a billion guns from the country?

I guess you'd start by not producing or selling any new ones. It's true that the gun industry's claws are in super deep.

 

[The Big Yin]

The UK has never had a gun culture like America. You can't compare the two.

A better comparison would be between knife crime in the UK and gun crime in the USA. In spite of the government banning several kinds of knives, there are still knife killings.

Exactly, I can't take my grandfather's Bowie or clasp knife with me camping because some low IQ mandem magwan degenerates from London can't stop themselves from using anything with a pointy end to stab each other.