Such as? Anything equal or adjacent to “restrict guns and ownership” is a political non-starter, and most anything less I can think of is impotent and/or easily circumvented.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
There are so many legislative changes that could be made to curb gun violence in the US and most states and federal government have done next to none of them. Seem ironic that the one thing new York does also allows a degree of surveillance over personal technology? Well intentioned my ass, this is as well intentioned as internet age controls.
Carmakazi@piefed.social 6 hours ago
rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
There is one form of gun control that has been effective and stood the test of time: Taxes.
The NFA has been working for almost a hundred years.
If politicians actually wanted to restrict gun ownership (rather than garnering temporary political support via impotent temporary policies the way California does) they’d use the NFA as a template.
As long as it is impossible to get the majority of states to agree to amend the constitution, any policy that infringes on citizens rights to bear arms is temporary at best.
There is decades of precedent in US courts that makes taxes and licensing not an infringement.
grue@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
We should refuse to even talk about “gun violence” in the relation to these 3D printer bans because that’s not even slightly what they are about.
They are 100.00000% about totalitarian surveillance and destruction of property rights. “Reducing gun violence” isn’t even an excuse; it’s an outright lie.