So, Elon/Vivek got me thinking (I’ve been in the waste reduction business for decades).
Leaving 2A intact…what 25 or less firearms laws would you want on the books to replace the currently >20,000 laws which aren’t/can’t be followed or enforced…or clearly maintained. Please add what might be federal and what might be variable by state. If at all possible, use bullet points instead of paragraphs folks won’t likely read or which make them again…complicated.
In no order and doing a quick brain drain to get us going:
No way to revoke, undo, alter 2A but with the option to write in today’s language clarifying statements so that there is no ambiguity to it’s meaning (not as a legal part of 2A). Words like milita aren’t generally understood or agreed upon today, but the goal is to have every citizen understand 2A.
No dark tinted windows in the car. Some of these southern states are nearly black!
New reports including firearm usage must include firearm details, ammo details/conts in all news and government reports. They must all include sex and race so that we have accessible facts for all to see.
Add basic firearms training to high school to avoid getting wrapped around the axle about requiring safety knowledge or not for new firearm owners
Intentional hard to police, fire, medical with firearm results in death penalty within 60 days. Same for firearm users in sexual crimes.
Illegals have no right to firearms at all and if they found with them are immediately deported along with their families
No bio firearms safeties in public use until they are 100% functional-zero failures
I’m not sure that I want any state laws to vary.
You guys are much more knowledgeable than I am on current laws, so we’re counting on you.
I’ve always been in favor of PSA ads on television pertaining to firearm safety, security and maintenance.
How do they say “The more you know”?
As a kid I can’t remember how many times a day I saw Smokey the Bear commercials. I lived in Brooklyn, there are NO trees in Brooklyn!
I’m not much on writing new or deleting old/outdated/incorrect laws…I will leave that up to our dully elected officials (a dangerous prospect, I know). I would be more to press the issue of not restricting law-abiding gun owners other than what Larry stated above:
Outside of that, carry on.
I would also press the issue of the criminals having more and better rights than the law-abiding citizens. They are criminals. They gave up their rights when they chose to commit crime.
.All that pass a background check, are not a prohibited person, and purchase a firearm must take firearm safety classes, including joining the United States Conceal Carry Association (USCCA).
No need for additional laws here. The courts have already affirmed the clear language in the 2A that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to all the people.
Programs and PSAs to better educate the public on this fact might be in order.
This to me is not a firearm related issue. I can understand driver safety laws as some of these dark tinted windows are impossible to see out of at night. But we don’t need to live in clear plastic bubbles just because LEOs are concerned we may be hiding behind the dark glass with a firearm. We have a constitutional right to privacy and must be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Not considered guilty until proven innocent.
I don’t see the need to post sex and race in all reports but reports that do include any details about a sex or race should include all the details on all the different categories involved and not just the cherry picked ones that play into a certain political point of view.
I’m all in on this one. It should be a requirement in all publicly funded schools starting with basic firearm safety in kindergarten and first grade and progressing to safe firearm handling and legal self defense lessons through highschool.
I am not at all a fan of set penalties and 60 days is nowhere near enough time to get anywhere near the truth in our overburdened criminal system.
Judges should be allowed to take mitigating circumstances into account. To point out an extreme - What if the shooter intentionally shot an LEO in a fit of anger because they found an LEO committing sexual crimes against their kid in the back of a police vehicle? There are countless grey areas in between that and the thug who intentional assassinates an LEO.
Plus not all sexual crimes are black and white. There is a lot of he said she said. Or I guess the saying is they said they said nowadays.
Offing heads in short periods of time will lead to far more innocent people being killed for crimes they didn’t commit.
Not to mention that I have some problems with LEOs and government officials, etc. getting swifter justice than say a parent or who gets murdered and can’t support their kids anymore. All lives and rights should be equal in the eyes of the law.
Agree that illegals and probably even most legal immigrants caught committing crimes should be deported immediately after serving appropriate jail time. But don’t agree that family members should be punished for crimes they did not commit.
In an ideal world there would be National preemption laws preventing States from passing laws that violate the 2A. But that requires relying on the DC kleptocrats to not pass laws violating our 2A rights as well. Makes this a very tricky legal issue.
At any rate this is a good discussion to have. Though I personally would focus on getting rid of all the current poorly worded, implemented and unconstitutional laws on the books before spending time trying to come up with new laws.
Laws need to cover and outlaw the harmful actions of individuals, not the objects the bad people use to cause harm. That’s all we need, along with real sentences for causing harm. Otherwise you end up in the rabbit hole of stupidity like Grest Britian is in now, where scary black knives are talked about the same way scary black rifles are here “who needs them, no purpose in society bla bla bla”
