We think that enacting more laws will cure our problems.
Yeah, right.
Someone recently defended keeping abortion legal by saying that if it becomes illegal that people will ignore it as being a bad law and get abortions illegally. I tend to agree with him.
Recently Connecticut enacted legislation requiring the registration of a certain type of firearm. Right now the government of Connecticut looks pretty stupid because only about 10% of the owners of these firerms have registered them.
As I write I see that the deadline in New York state is arriving in a few days and there are no long lines of people filling out forms to register much of anything.
Give it a couple of weeks and the governor of New York will be seen standing there making all sorts of meaningless threats. The New York state police and almost every county sheriff have already said they are not going to waste time enforcing these laws.
I'm no different than most Americans in that there are a few laws out there I flout regularly. My guess is the reason I am not in jail now is simply because the police can't be bothered to take their time out to enforce petty bull$hit.
Truth is I live a fairly responsible life and that's enough as far as I can see.
Thomas Jefferson once said something to the effect of that if something neither picked his pocket nor broke his leg it's not a problem.
I don't hurt people, endanger other people's lives and I don't steal so I suppose that's a pretty hefty part of why I'm not in the clink.
Drugs are actually one of the biggest examples of laws being flouted.
Anyone that wants to do drugs now probably is even though they have been outlawed for decades and decades. There is no shortage of pot or cocaine on the street and it is unlikely that there is going to be a major shortage in the forseeable future.
We have spent billions and billions on the War on Drugs and have had little if any success eradicating the drug problem. We'd be a whole lot better off if we just gave up and saved the money we squander on this annually and let Darwin's Law take its toll.
Right now President Obama is asking for another billion or so to promote gun control. You can kiss that money goodbye. We won't see taxes increease because of that. It will just get added to our multi-trillion debt.
Like everything else, if a ban goes through people will wind up out of work. Poverty will increase and crime will rise because the fatheads in Washington have no idea of how much people spend in this country on firearms and ammunition.
Of course, the laws will be flouted by most firearm owners. Personally I have heard more than one policeman talk about stocking up before a ban comes along. I seriously doubt that too many policemen are going to be too interested in doing house to house searches of people that are otherwise law abiding citizens.
We'd be a whole lot better off if the people in government got their heads out of their asses and started looking around and insuring our personal liberties instead of taking them away from us because if the reduced the number of laws on the books and enforced the ones that they ought to enforce we'd likely be a whole lot better off.
Neither party is worth a damn. The Republicans want to snoop into out bedrooms and be the moral police and the Democrats want to snoop in our closets and protect us from ourselves.
Both of them simply ought to dry up and stop spending money that we don't have.
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