Guns and ammo
This is “promise to liberals” season in the Democratic primaries, and I don’t think Hillary Clinton has any intention to deliver on at least one of her gun control promises, but there are some very common sense solutions out there that can be enacted that will still protect the rights of gun owners from their government and black people from police.One of these is the concept of the mandatory waiting period for purchase combined with criminal background checks. This is a no-brainer. All tragedies cannot be prevented, but this is a sensible way to limit them. In some locales, the waiting period and background checks are already written into the law, and simply need to be enforced, but this does no good when it is not universal.
Another winning concept is the outright ban on assault rifles. The right to own firearms is not absolute. It certainly does not extend to any type of weapon the manufacturers can dream up. You can’t possess a firearm that shoots a rocket or a nuclear device. Any dispute about this? So now we're just deciding where to draw the line.
The best idea, championed now by Clinton but which I don’t think she actually plans to fight for because it’s an “anti-business” measure, is to end the immunity from liability that gun manufacturers enjoy under a 2005 law.
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How can a land of such great opportunity and grand principles be so frequently victimized by gun violence? It's one of the great mysteries... Oh shit, now we're bombing hospitals?
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Doctors Without Borders better watch itself. It's one thing to accuse the United States of a war crime, but a Democratic administration during an election cycle? I fear the good doctors are going to get "Nader-ized" by the Democrats if they don't zip it.
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Only three days after the U.S. military bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan killed 22 patients and aid workers, the story has already fallen off the front page of the Huffington Post. I wonder if that would be the case if George W. Bush was still president.
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Getting a court conviction in the case of an African-American being killed by police is like getting a conviction in the South in the 1950’s and 60’s when a white person killed an African-American. It happens on occasion, but is exceedingly rare.
posted by CM @ 7:34 AM
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