a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by thenewgreen

I'm curious, which of these provisions irks you the most? Are there any of them that make sense to you?





cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Many are either fluff (national dialogue) or stupid.

Stupid, for example: "5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun."

It is darn near impossible to get your gun back from the cops once they have it. Plus they store them improperly so when you do get it back, if you do, it is ruined. I can't find the story but one guy did some research and found that a large % (not 50%, but like that) of very valuable non-crime seized guns are stolen in the lockup.

cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like "19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education." because best practices are good and take money to develop.

cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would like "10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement." if it included keeping the US government from selling guns to Mexican mobs.

thenewgreen  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I would agree that Fast and Furious is something that doesn't get enough "lip service" from the left. Um, lets just tuck this under the rug until 2016 and then we'll take a looksy

cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I the "new categories" if it is designed to keep a person with, say, a felon in the house, from keeping guns in the house that are 'reasonably' accessible. Otherwise I'm not sure what that means.

cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like better background checks a LOT, but I have civil liberties concerns, frankly, about detailed personal information being out there. I also worry about "no fly list" type issues where you can't get your name off the list.

thenewgreen  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, there are often unintended consequences of knee-jerk legislation. I have a friend that will be on the sex-offender list if he's ticketed one more time for peeing outside at a tail-gate. -Dumb, yes. Worthy of the criminal sex offenders list, no.

cliffelam  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Don't just do something, stand there."

Hard if your first reaction to a crisis is to use it to further your political goals.

-XC