And the criminals will ignore. How completely banal your responses are.
Criminals don't obey laws, that's why they're criminals. Why not just get rid of all laws (your logical conclusion)...
Nope.....your thinking process is what is wrong.
Laws state the punishment for behavior you are not allowed to do....you do the behavior you get punished. We are fine with that...in fact that is what we support as WestWall's post showed...there is a law that says you cannot use a gun to commit rape, robbery, murder and other crimes...if you use a gun to do those things you go to jail. There...exactly the way a law is supposed to work.
The same mechanic applies to all behavior we have made illegal....we say if you go 36 miles an hour in a 35 mile an hour zone...you get a ticket.
Now you twits.....you want the law to act as a magical control. You want to pass a law that prevents the breaking of the law in the first place.... you want the law to act like the Precogs, in the Tom Cruise movie "minority report" where the psychics sitting in the pool can see the crime before it happens and then you twits send in Tom Cruise to keep the crime from happening.....that is how you twits envision the law.....and why we don't take you seriously....and also why we don't trust you.
You think if you just find the right law that the criminals will be stopped from using guns. That isn't the way laws work. Laws define behavior and punish people when they do that behavior....they can't prevent the behavior.
We have laws against murder. We do not have laws that prevent people from committing murder. If you commit murder, something we cannot stop, then you are arrested and put in prison.
We have laws against rape. We do not have laws that prevent people from committing rape. If you commit rape, we catch you and put you in prison.
You are the nutty one.....we understand how laws work.....
I know you know how they work too....you just want to use them in your way....you don't care if criminals use guns....you just want to punish gun owners. That is why you have all these laws that create bureaucratic traps for law abiding gun owners...and if they fail to fill out the paperwork, or they fail to fill it out on the right date, or fail to fill it out completely correctly....you crush them....you take their money, you lock them in prison, you stigmatize them as felons for the rest of their lives, you take away their job and make it impossible to get a good one in the future, and most important of all to you.....you get to take their guns.........
They will not have actually used their guns to commit a crime. They will have hurt no one....and their guns could sit in a closet in their home for 100 years....but they miss that paperwork......they are f****d...and you own them......
In fact...you will treat that person who made the clerical mistake worse than an actual rapist, robber or killer.....simply because they own a gun...