–The latest gun laws: Ignorance, stupidity, insanity — or something more devious?

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Here is the path the right wing has taken us down. Is it ignorance, stupidity, insanity — or something more devious:

Ga. governor signs ‘guns everywhere’ into law
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a controversial gun bill into law on Wednesday
Larry Copeland and Doug Richards, USA TODAY 4:17 p.m. EDT April 23, 2014

ELLIJAY, Ga. — It’s legal for licensed gun owners in Georgia to pack heat in bars, schools, churches and some government buildings.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, on Wednesday signed the state’s “Safe Carry Protection Act,” which critics dubbed the “guns everywhere bill,” in north Georgia, on the edge of the Chattahoochee National Forest and Cohutta Wilderness area.

The new law, which goes into effect July 1, allows licensed gun owners in Georgia and visitors from 28 other states to bring a gun into a bar without restrictions and carry a firearm into some government buildings that don’t have security measures. It also allows school districts to decide whether they want some employees to carry a firearm and religious leaders to decide whether to allow licensed gun owners to tote to their church, synagogue or mosque.

Guns in bars? What could possibly go wrong with that? Doesn’t everyone trust a drunk with a loaded gun?

But really, why stop with semi-automatic guns with big magazines? Why not fully automatic, belt-feeding machine guns in bars? C’mon Governor, don’t be such a wimp. Machine guns for everyone, everywhere.

But no problem Gov., because you have rejected the ACA Medicaid expansion (and the free federal $2.9 billion your taxpayers forfeited), your people will die younger anyway. So gun killings won’t make all that much difference in Georgia’s average life expectancy.

Kansas will nullify local regulation of guns
By JOHN HANNA-Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas will strip cities and counties of their power to regulate guns and nullify local gun regulations in July, ensuring it will be legal across the state to openly carry firearms and adding to a string of victories in recent years by gun-rights advocates.

Gov. Sam Brownback announced Wednesday that he signed a bill late the previous day preventing local officials from restricting the sale of firearms and ammunition or regulating how guns are transported and stored. The National Rifle Association has described the legislation as a model for states seeking to strip local officials of gun-regulating powers.

Brownback has consistently supported gun rights, and the GOP-dominated Legislature had solid gun-rights majorities even before the Republican governor took office in January 2011.

Hey, aren’t you the same geniuses who want to teach creationism in science classes? And aren’t you also the same geniuses who cost your taxpayers $5.9 billion in federal funds by not not expanding Medicaid coverage under “Obamacare”? Sure you are.

But is this ignorance, stupidity or insanity — or something more devious? Ask yourself this: Who are most likely to be killed by guns? The rich or the rest? Who live in the most dangerous neighborhoods? The rich or the rest. Think about it, and think about why the right wing, which is most closely aligned with the rich, opposes gun control.

The more miserable the rich can make the lives of the rest, the greater the Gap — and that really is all the rich care about.

Anyway, here is a copy of a letter I am sending to politicians around America, but not to Georgia or Kansas. Under the circumstances, it would have been a waste of postage.

SAMPLE LETTER TO MAYORS AND GOVERNORS

The Supreme Court has blocked many efforts at gun control. Let’s be clear; there are no foolproof ways to eliminate gun violence. The best we can hope for is partial solutions.

Here are two partial solutions that have not been tried, and would pass Constitutional muster:

Partial Solution I: Identify the “Bad Guys”

As Wayne LaPierre famously said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” But how can we identify the “bad guys”?

To date, gun control advocates have focused on background checks, which the NRA sees as a secret plot to take guns away, or to give the government a list of gun owners, for some devious purpose.

So how do we “stop” bad guys with guns, if we don’t know who they are?

There really is only one way to identify bad guys and to prevent these bad guys from obtaining guns and from shooting people: Convince the bad guys to self-select. We have to convince them that shooting someone or even carrying a gun, would be a bad idea.

Here, in common English, is the bare bones of a suggested law. (I’m sure the politicians could translate it into appropriate legalese):

Any person who commits a felony while carrying a gun, shall be sentenced to a prison term of 20 years to life, in addition to the term for the felony itself.

Example: You rob a store, while you are carrying a gun. The judge sentences you to two years in jail. Ordinarily, you’d be out of jail in about 18 months.

But with the above law in force, you’d serve at least 22 years (“20-years-to-life” means a minimum of 20 years).

Too harsh? Not at all. Wayne LaPierre wants to shoot those bad guys. This law mercifully only jails them.

The only ones punished are the bad guys — the felons. And although the law doesn’t require shooting them, it will keep them off the streets and even make them think twice before carrying guns.

In the mean streets of many cities, it’s become a badge of honor, not at all a deterrent, for a gangbanger to spend a couple years in jail, get his tattoos, then come out and start shooting again.

But 20+ years? That’s a whole different ball game.

LaPierre might object that the proposed law doesn’t ask good guys to shoot bad guys — just jail them. But I think he’ll like the rest of the law

1. It identifies the bad guys, without good guys having to undergo background checks.
2. Good guys can keep their guns.
3. Bad guys are “stopped,” without the need for good guys to start a dangerous shootout, in which innocent good guys could be killed.
4. The long jail sentence could dissuade bad guys from carrying guns.

It’s a solution that accomplishes everything Wayne LaPierre and the NRA wants, and nothing they don’t want. It evolved directly from LaPierre’s own words.

Good guys should welcome this law. It says nothing about taking away your guns. It allows you to stockpile all the guns you want — pistols, rifles, shotguns, AK47s — whatever feels good to you.

Partial Solution II: Make the Gun Providers Liable

Pass a local ordinance saying, in essence:

Any provider of a gun that is used in a felony shall have the same criminal and civil liability as the actual perpetrator of the felony.

If you make or sell or give someone a gun that is used in a crime, you are responsible for that crime. Harsh? Unfair?

Some municipalities have “dram shop” laws, making a tavern responsible for damages, where intoxication was at least one cause of the damages. Sell liquor to a drunk; the drunk commits a crime; you are fined and/or go to jail.

If you feed someone liquor in your home, and that drunk gets into an accident, you could be found guilty of aiding and abetting.

These laws are weak (they generally don’t apply to the manufacturers, importers, wholesalers or package liquor dealers), are different in every municipality, and are difficult to apply across state lines, but the point is, they do make sellers liable for a product they sell, even though they themselves didn’t misuse it.

So even these woefully weak laws make bartenders a bit more cautious about selling drinks to doubtful people.

The precedent of making a seller liable for the misuse of product he sells, could be extended to guns. Gun manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, even private citizens, would be liable for crimes committed with guns. So you, the gun provider, better set up a system to prevent your customer, or your customer’s customer, from misusing the gun.

Rather than trying to outlaw gun ownership, which the Supreme Court says won’t work, merely make gun ownership more costly. Sellers probably would have to buy expensive insurance, the cost of which would be added to the cost of the gun.

–Would these two ideas eliminate guns? No.
–Could honest people still obtain guns? Of course.
–Could criminals still obtain guns? Sure.

But the increased cost, and increased liability, represent Constitutional steps from the current, insufficient control for the single most dangerous, easily available product the world ever has known.

Dear readers. You might wish to cut and paste this letter and send it to your politicians.

Future Americans will look back on our century, and shake their heads in wonderment at the abject stupidity they see. The fact that people believe adding guns will reduce gun killing and gain “freedom,” is so ludicrous as to be beyond belief. It will be the way we feel about the people who claimed the world was flat and the sun was the center of the universe.

But really, why not machine guns, Mr. LaPierre?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
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5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
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7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
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