In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.
I get the irony but if he managed to actually enact some form of gun control in this country it would be the hardest pill in the world for people like us to swallow who just can’t stand that fucking idiot.
As much as it has zero chance of ever happening, he pushed for a max 10% on credit card debt. It’d all but destroy some banks, and people that dont have excellent credit would largely have zero credit availability, but I think it’s a good idea.
Credit cards is a money trickling up system. Banks charge the sellers and give a rebate to their customers. Sellers increase their price to compensate for the credit card fees.
And then the poor are denied credit cards and pay the marked-up price on everything, or are given credit cards knowing they will fail to pay back on time at some point and then pay huge interests.
It would be better for most if that system disappeared or was at least severely trimmed down!
Agreed. Short term pain for long term gain is something we desperately need to change but today’s culture is too lost in the system to ever deal with it.
If it meant a better life for my daughter when she grows up I’d do what I had to. I’m doing what I can but it isn’t much.
in the hands of untrained people with no background checks
In the context and language of the time, “well regulated” essentially meant “properly trained in their use” so there’s a constitutional argument to be made for mandatory firearms training as a prerequisite gun ownership. That’s…not going to reduce shootings in the ways you might expect, since a large portion of shootings are not done with legally owned guns to begin with, and there’s no good reason organized crime (think gang and/or narcotics related, connected is why a few dozen counties account for something like 4 in 10 homicides) would use guns legally registered to themselves.
Would probably reduce the suicide rate though - anything that breaks the immediacy between wanting to do it and trying to do it tends to.
An important step up on the whole issue would be making gun owners legally liable for any crimes committed with a firearm they own, even if it’s stolen unless the theft was reported beforehand and there is clear evidence that it was properly secured at the time of theft. You steal your father’s rifle and go shoot up your school and he’s on the hook for the murders too. Would make a bunch of folks much more concerned about properly securing their arms, which would further reduce the suicide rate if nothing else and put a dent in the “lone nutter shoots up their school” types as well.
In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.
Anyway, fight girls.
I get the irony but if he managed to actually enact some form of gun control in this country it would be the hardest pill in the world for people like us to swallow who just can’t stand that fucking idiot.
insert “Broken clocks” idiom
He’d be doing the right thing but for the wrong reasons and in this case, for more authoritarian control
Reagan enacted gun control in California
For the same reasons!
He also sent the military to Berkeley to deal with lippy students using words. Then 20 years later they all voted for him because they got rich.
As much as it has zero chance of ever happening, he pushed for a max 10% on credit card debt. It’d all but destroy some banks, and people that dont have excellent credit would largely have zero credit availability, but I think it’s a good idea.
Credit cards is a money trickling up system. Banks charge the sellers and give a rebate to their customers. Sellers increase their price to compensate for the credit card fees.
And then the poor are denied credit cards and pay the marked-up price on everything, or are given credit cards knowing they will fail to pay back on time at some point and then pay huge interests.
It would be better for most if that system disappeared or was at least severely trimmed down!
I deliberately seek out businesses with a cash discount.
Agreed. Short term pain for long term gain is something we desperately need to change but today’s culture is too lost in the system to ever deal with it.
If it meant a better life for my daughter when she grows up I’d do what I had to. I’m doing what I can but it isn’t much.
They will whinge about this for a few days before he finds some shiny thing to distract them with.
In the context and language of the time, “well regulated” essentially meant “properly trained in their use” so there’s a constitutional argument to be made for mandatory firearms training as a prerequisite gun ownership. That’s…not going to reduce shootings in the ways you might expect, since a large portion of shootings are not done with legally owned guns to begin with, and there’s no good reason organized crime (think gang and/or narcotics related, connected is why a few dozen counties account for something like 4 in 10 homicides) would use guns legally registered to themselves.
Would probably reduce the suicide rate though - anything that breaks the immediacy between wanting to do it and trying to do it tends to.
An important step up on the whole issue would be making gun owners legally liable for any crimes committed with a firearm they own, even if it’s stolen unless the theft was reported beforehand and there is clear evidence that it was properly secured at the time of theft. You steal your father’s rifle and go shoot up your school and he’s on the hook for the murders too. Would make a bunch of folks much more concerned about properly securing their arms, which would further reduce the suicide rate if nothing else and put a dent in the “lone nutter shoots up their school” types as well.