DE House Can Put A Dent In Gun Violence. Why Won’t They Do It?
I will first quote an excerpt from AG Kathleen Jennings’ statement on yesterday’s Texas massacre:
Our state and our nation must choose change, including a ban on the military-style assault rifles that both shooters are reported to have used. It’s also long past time for Delaware to pass into law Senate Bill 3, legislation creating a permit to purchase firearms. This proven, popular legislation would broadly and substantially reduce gun homicides, gun suicides, and gun trafficking. The Senate passed SB 3 nearly 400 days ago. The House has the power right now to save lives by sending this bill to the Governor’s desk; in doing so it would have not only my support, but the support of 70% of our State. It is not too late for us to do the right thing.”
The bill, or, more precisely, this substitute, passed the Senate in April of 2021. 13 Y, 8 N. It almost assuredly has the votes to pass the House. It cleared the House Judiciary Committee on May 11, 2021. However, Pistol Pete inexplicably reassigned it to the House Appropriations Committee two days later, and it has languished there for over a year.
Did I say ‘inexplicably’? That’s not true. He reassigned it there because he wants it to die there. He’s got both his gerbil-brained go-fer Lumpy Carson on that committee along with ‘They want to take away my assault weapon’ Kim Williams. This is how Delaware’s real top cop stops good bills from being passed. Especially if cops don’t want to have to give up their ‘recreational’ assault weapons. Pete just puts the bills in inhospitable committees, committees that he created.
I just thought you should know.
Who knows: Maybe someone who is not afraid of being screwed by the Kabal (Bentz? Kowalko? They’re both retiring) will try to petition the bill out of committee. And, yes, it’s time for us to do our part. We need to call our state reps.
Nothing happens on gun control until the Kop Kabal is out of power or–in this case–overruled by the House rank-and-file.
I’m so old I remember when cops supported gun control because it made their jobs safer.
I don’t understand why they don’t. It WOULD make them safer.
It has nothing to do with safety. It’s about money
Please elaborate.
If there wasn’t hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into the pocket of various politicians, things would change. If cops could t seize property so easily things would change.
Any major reform won’t happen because too much money makes too many politicians rich
My question was: ‘Why don’t the cops support getting these weapons of war off the streets?’
Or something to that effect.
You already said why – they would have to give up their own but that would never happen because there would be a caveat saying they need them to protect their community.
The cops, as an agency, support gun control, or used to, because they don’t want their people outgunned. Individual cops are another matter.
Suppose someone is denied a permit to purchase- because they are either too unstable or too dangerous to own a gun? They just walk?
Yes. Dummy. What’s your point?
This assumes that somewhere there is a list of dangerous or deranged people what can be checked against. If that’s the case, let’s dispense with the legislative hoops and just start targeting people on that list. Too dangerous to be around a gun is too dangerous to be in society.
Why don’t you learn something about these topics — for example, how background checks and red flag laws work — before expounding on them?
You seem exceedingly eager to lock people away based on nothing but somebody’s say-so that they’re dangerous. Other countries have lots of crazy people, just like us, and they don’t commit any murders with guns because they can’t get their hands on guns.
It’s a lot easier to control guns than have the government decide who needs to be locked away because they might get a gun. Anybody with a grain of common sense could see that. Can you?
This guy is just trolling. He can’t be this dumb.
FWIW – I’m not interested in any version of the gun nut’s old standby – “Nothing will work, so we shouldn’t do anything.” Just fuck off with that weak shit.
I’ve stated my piece. If I were trolling, I would have invested all my time into going after kowalkos tantrum and then his pathetic retraction.
Feel free to continue chasing your fantasies of new gun laws. A dem majority couldn’t even preserve the child tax credit, and that slim majority is going to be out next year. Meanwhile we are sitting on a powder keg of political violence, and gun legislation is a burning match. Alby is a world away so he doesn’t care about consequences.
My position has crossover appeal; We can rebuild the facilities that an exasperated Mrs. Lanza needed to secure her defective child, and In the process of a nationwide focus on mental hygiene we can address a large swath of the addicted and homeless population. Just remember, if it saves “just one life” it’s all worth it.
Does Ben DuPont know you’re using his name?
So you’re not trolling, you’re self-promoting. And you’re also a hypocrite — you think everyone else’s ideas should be dismissed by your judgment that “it won’t work,” because you apparently can tell the future, while you insist on your even-less-likely solution. You’re fucked in the head, kid. Under your plan you’d be in the room next to McMurphy.
“My position has crossover appeal”
That’s nice. Espouse it on your own dime. This isn’t the Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner.
“Just remember, if it saves “just one life” it’s all worth it.”
Bullshit and you know it, or ought to. That’s fascist thinking — lock up everyone you think is mentally ill so you feel free.
Feel free to take your obsessions elsewhere.