Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.
Seriously, try it. Start the process. Stop whining about it on Twitter, and on HBO, and at the Daily Kos. [snip] A Second Amendment without the supposedly pernicious Heller “interpretation” wouldn’t be any impediment to regulation at all. It would be a dead letter. It would be an effective repeal. It would be the end of the right itself. In other words, it would be exactly what you want! Man up. Put together a plan, and take those words out of the Constitution.
Truly, this was a rant for the ages. See also this: short version there is, repeatedly shrieking the word ‘Australia!’ may make gun control enthusiasts feel better, but it’s not actually going to translate into a workable policy. Very little would, in fact.
“Australia” is a dog-whistle, and we’re all the dogs.
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We. Know. What. It. Means. Gun-grabbers. You too, Mr. President.
So stop trying to slide it in alongside your “commonsense reforms” trojan-horses.
BTW, I have this article linked just to throw back at anyone who thinks guns are bad and should be taken away. Put up or shut up.
Yeah, but clearly, everyone would instantly get rid of their guns if the Evil NRA didn’t exist. The Koch Brothers are probably involved somewhere too.
Well, they evidently believe that the National Recovery Agency and the National Rifle Association were the same thing.
In comparison, this is almost believable.
I’ll chip in to the GoFundMe site for a group of gun grabbers to relocate to their paradise of choice in exchange for them renouncing American citizenship. Mind you that outside the U.S., “community organizer” and “professional protester” aren’t the skills those nations want.
There are other important differences between Australia (where I am) and the US.
Even before hand-guns were basically outlawed in 1996, very few Australians owned or used them. The only aggressive dangerous animals here are tiger snakes and wild pigs, for which hand-guns are pretty useless. (A whip or stick is better for snakes, and for wild pigs you want a big rifle and lots of ammo.) In contrast, North America has bears, cougars, wolves, etc — all good reasons to carry a revolver.
Until relatively recently, few criminals used guns, because police give much higher priority to crimes involving guns. (Various bikie gangs are turning to organized crime, and they have been smuggling hand-guns and even (IIRC) automatic rifles into Aus, so that may change. Gulp.)
So the ‘Australian option’ is complete and utter bulldust.
And given that the Australian solution was “take them by force and give the owners a pittance in return,” things would get very bloody in this country very quickly should the idiots try implementing that here.