Like you need a license in most states to cut hair. You need a license to sell hot dogs. You need a license to be an lol realtor or a stockbroker or a lawyer or a bus driver.
The failure to require literally anything of gun owners is so ridiculous as to render any “debate” a complete farce. There is no point responding to “what about the doors, arm the teachers and nurses” bullshit, if you’re engaging they’re winning. Funnel that energy towards winning instead of talking.
Not only can you not buy tanks you also can’t buy a bazooka, a machine gun, a sawed off shotgun etc. there’s no reason an AR-15 shouldn’t also be included in that list
THAT’S SOCIALISM!
That doesn’t narrow down which team you’re talking about.
She was shot in SC while on vacation, not her home state. NH gun deaths are high compared to the rest of the northeast, but still below the national rate and far below the gun nut states.
The whole “few bad apples” trope has really gotten out of hand.
The entire barrel is rotten to the core.
The corruption and abuse of power is a feature not a bug.
I’m not sure where I heard it, maybe it was here, but it was from an ex-cop. I think he said that 25% of people who get into policing are legit pieces of shit. Racists, bigots, bullies, you name it. The worst of the worst types of people who absolutely should not be cops. The other 75% get into it for the right reasons. Sure, maybe all the structural problems are there, but these are generally decent people who just want to be a force for good. For that 75%, they have two choices. Get in line and back the shitty 25% under the “back the blue” mantra, or get railroaded out of the department. Look at the George Floyd incident. 1 cop committing a murder. 3 other cops standing around watching with dumbfounded looks on their faces.
Was waiting for LegalEagle to weigh in on this
It’s not an upbeat video.
I think those percentages are backwards. Another reason to get into police work is that municipality jobs tend to be pretty idiot proof. It’s super hard to get fired. Decent pensions. And once seniority kicks in there are a ton of other bennies like paid time off, ideal shifts, easier work, etc.
I mean what would the “right reasons” even be? I want to rid the streets of filth? That’s a terrible reason. And no one is thinking I want to serve and protect everyone. Well, at least 75% are not thinking that when they sign up
If police don’t have to provide reasonable help then what did the cast of Seinfeld go to jail for?
Terrible writing in a finale?
My recollection is that you only have a duty to help someone, if you were the one that put them in danger (or have some other duty to you). E.g. if I push you in a pool, I have a duty to try and save you, but if I see you drowning in the pool, I can just watch you drown.
Thanks. This is more or less what I was looking for but I still feel like there is more to the story. Heller was in 2008. I assume owning a bazooka or whatever could still be outlawed pre-2008. What were we using to decide what arms people can and cannot own prior to Heller?
Apparently not true wherever the Seinfeld finale took place.
Before Heller, the 2A was a dead letter and governments could and did ban everything except hunting rifles.
Another word for legal norms is the common law.
Really? I guess I completely memory holed that. I’ve never owned or wanted to own a gun, so I’d have no functional reason to know.
So how did AR15s make it in under Heller and “traditionally lawful purposes”?
They didn’t. The assault weapon ban was before Heller. A new assault weapon ban would be constitutional under the current precedent. The increasing prevalence of assault weapons isn’t due to the Court, it’s due to Legislatures.
