Toronado3800
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Illegal street racing is a problem in some cities......you get these young people in suped up cars racing down actual public streets, inspired by movies like "The Fast and Furious."
In order to keep people safe, we need to make sure that street racing cars, like the Toyota Camry, are banned for civilians...no one needs a street racing car like a Toyota Camry.....
Good topic.
It is a problem. right now we have limits on cars somewhat similar to guns. My old school 14 second OLD Mustang has no problem being street legal. My buddy's twin turbo LT1 (no opti spark anymore lol) Camaro has a full cage and is getting oretty borderline.
There is open debate about what a car needs to be "street legal" and generally the racers are a pretty tame group with regulations unlike the NRA types. I think imposing a similar system of regulations on guns would end up with "fine, if you own am AR-15 come register it. Also every two years or when ownership changes hands bring it in so we can inspect it for illegal modifications."
A select few habitual drunk types can't operate a vehicle legally.....not sure if I ever heard of restrictions on owning one.
Registering guns achieves nothing.....except allow for those guns to be confiscated. That is a non starter.....we know from history that registration is the first step in confiscation....Germany, Britain, Australia, New York, Chicago, California, Canada.......registered guns, confiscated guns......
No one except really loony lefties want to confiscate cars......the leadership of the democrat party, want to confiscate guns...and as we heard at the CNN town hall....they want to confiscate all semi auto weapons...that would include pistols and revolvers.....
I'm split on the registration. You could get me to skip it.
-Give bump stocks and the other, better, trigger aids the same regulations as fully automatic rifles.
-Help me come to some decision on what non-convicted felon mentally ill people should not be able to own a gun. This is going to miss the mark A LOT but prevent some school shootings.
-Give each school a real resource officer. Sure its gonna be higher taxes but apparently this is where we are as a society. The village is gonna have to raise their kids better or pay for all the time sent sitting in front of the internet not helping out.
-Give private sales the same regulations as dealer sales. God created us equal, lets level the field. Tell the cops or gun stores or whoever they have to do the private background checks for free.
I'd be thrilled to see if we had any positive effects after 8 years.
I think the car analogies miss the mark really. Every two years my car gets inspected for illegal modifications or lack of maintenance. My shotgun? No one ever makes me bring it in to check how short a barrel I have now.
Also, maybe because its a mass shooting things hit the news, but funny how when white kids die stuff gets talked about. You should bring that up a bit more if I haven't missed you mentioning it.