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NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers, Attempts to Target Ghost Guns
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Ah yes, the mythical "responsible gun owners". How do we know they're responsible? Why, because they promised us on the internet of course! They followed every completely optional safety rule! They loudly tutted at videos of people who didn't!
And the thousands and thousands of former "responsible gun owners" like the Ulvade shooter? They don't count, despite buying the same guns from the same stores with the same checks and same legal requirements.
This is a marketing slogan for the gun lobby, not actual wisdom.
Do you know what's even better than "having it and not needing it"? Just not needing it, like everybody living in comparable countries the world over.
Do you know what the crime rate is like in those cities? Basically identical across the board, except with a thousandth the gun violence. So what exactly are all these guns preventing?
If you want your family to be safer, the best thing you could do is move to a country with gun control and the worst thing you could do is buy a gun.
Can't just magically not need it by willing the Second Amendment away buddy
There are about 70 million gun owners in the United States. If it weren’t for the vast majority of them being responsible, every American would die of gunshot wounds in about 15 minutes.
The "responsible" part is entirely optional, at your own staunch insistence and every single person who commits a crime with a legally purchased gun was once one of your "responsible gun owners".
The Ulvade shooter was a former "responsible gun owner". The Republican donor who just tried to execute his wife in the street was a former "responsible gun owner". The man who shot a black child through his door, then tried to execute him as he lay bleeding on the ground was a former "responsible gun owner".
And where do the people with illegal guns get them? Why, from "responsible gun owners" of course!
Over a million "responsible gun owners" allow their poorly secured firearms to be stolen each year, because responsibility is optional.
Millions more conduct private sales without a background check, because responsibility is optional.
The dirty secret is that you don't care if they're responsible or not. You don't care if they don't know how to safely handle a gun, if they leave it sitting loaded in a drawer or if they sweep their friends 50 times each hunting trip. You don't care if they kill their wives or mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.
The only thing you care about is that you will never have to prove you're responsible or be held accountable when you're not.