This is the USA, land of 300,000,000+ firearms. We have more guns than people. ANYONE who wants to get a gun can get one, usually with little to no problem. That's just a fact of life.
Why do you think so many outlaw bikers keep a chick around (aside from the casual sex)? Many of the men have a felony convictions and most of the women don't. The woman is carrying the weapon.
It's a big country and since they are handing out felonies like speeding tickets nowadays, there are too many 'felons' to check in on with the manpower available.
The number of 'felons' who scoff at the 1968 Gun Control Act statutes which keep them from legally owning a gun, is vast. It's usually easiest for them to get away with it if they have a woman they live with who has a clean record.
The Federal statutes are used as a weapon when necessary to crucify people in court, but for the most part, it seems at best to be a minor inconvenience for those whom it is supposed to effect in practical life.
Everyone acknowledges that Gun Control never works for any other segment of society, so why should it work for such a substantial cross-section of the population just because they have the artificially created limitation of a negative mark against them in a file someplace?
That is one of the things that causes societies to start coming unglued.
You see, the 'law' is basically just words on paper. The 'law' only works because most of the people obey it voluntarily. There is not enough enforcers to force EVERYONE to obey the 'law'.
When too many people start disobeying the law, the law eventually ceases to have meaning and the institutions it props up begin to fail.
This is what Gandhi did to finally break the back of British rule in India, a move which helped cause the entire British Empire to rapidly unravel. It is a tactic which governments and power control freaks worldwide still fear because once it gets rolling, even slowly, it's almost impossible to stop.
Some modern statists and power control freaks, like many of those in the US Government, seem to have forgotten that lesson, and they are making the mistake that if they just keep upping the penalties for violating their paper statutes, the law will simply be obeyed out of fear. That NEVER works in the long run.
When the law becomes too draconian for too many people, and it's obvious that it's just a BS statute, people just start ignoring the law in larger and larger numbers, especially when it dawns on everyone that there isn't enough enforcers to make everyone obey the law.
Once one law is treated like that, treating others like it becomes easier and easier.
After a while, the 'law' has made itself a joke and people just casually do as they please in unenforceable numbers. Societies at this point become turbulent and change is inevitable; usually soon to arrive and often with violence.
Why do you think so many outlaw bikers keep a chick around (aside from the casual sex)? Many of the men have a felony convictions and most of the women don't. The woman is carrying the weapon.
It's a big country and since they are handing out felonies like speeding tickets nowadays, there are too many 'felons' to check in on with the manpower available.
The number of 'felons' who scoff at the 1968 Gun Control Act statutes which keep them from legally owning a gun, is vast. It's usually easiest for them to get away with it if they have a woman they live with who has a clean record.
The Federal statutes are used as a weapon when necessary to crucify people in court, but for the most part, it seems at best to be a minor inconvenience for those whom it is supposed to effect in practical life.
Everyone acknowledges that Gun Control never works for any other segment of society, so why should it work for such a substantial cross-section of the population just because they have the artificially created limitation of a negative mark against them in a file someplace?
That is one of the things that causes societies to start coming unglued.
You see, the 'law' is basically just words on paper. The 'law' only works because most of the people obey it voluntarily. There is not enough enforcers to force EVERYONE to obey the 'law'.
When too many people start disobeying the law, the law eventually ceases to have meaning and the institutions it props up begin to fail.
This is what Gandhi did to finally break the back of British rule in India, a move which helped cause the entire British Empire to rapidly unravel. It is a tactic which governments and power control freaks worldwide still fear because once it gets rolling, even slowly, it's almost impossible to stop.
Some modern statists and power control freaks, like many of those in the US Government, seem to have forgotten that lesson, and they are making the mistake that if they just keep upping the penalties for violating their paper statutes, the law will simply be obeyed out of fear. That NEVER works in the long run.
When the law becomes too draconian for too many people, and it's obvious that it's just a BS statute, people just start ignoring the law in larger and larger numbers, especially when it dawns on everyone that there isn't enough enforcers to make everyone obey the law.
Once one law is treated like that, treating others like it becomes easier and easier.
After a while, the 'law' has made itself a joke and people just casually do as they please in unenforceable numbers. Societies at this point become turbulent and change is inevitable; usually soon to arrive and often with violence.
I am getting so fed up with these BS laws and governmental intrusion into my life I could just spit.
