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Originally Posted by CamaroSkooter
You know, I don't have a problem with the laws they're enacting in California because they're all state laws, not federal. If a state wants to pass the most restrictive and bogus gun laws, more than likely they are doing so because that's what the people of that state elected them to do. It falls to reason that the people of that state who elected those officials are the real morons for believing in this nonsense.
But even more than that, let them make it impossible to own a firearm legally. Let them be the testbed for all these ridiculous laws. Let them see just how much these laws do absolutely nothing to solve the real problem. Let them show the country how taking the firearms away from law-abiding citizens actually leads to higher crime rates across the board.
They can legislate their state how they want, and let us in other states legislate our states how we want. Isn't that the entire purpose of the way this country was designed?
As long as laws at the federal level are not enacted to infringe on our 2nd Amendment right, I'm happy (even though you could make the argument that the 1934 National Firearms Act already does this).
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You shouldn't be happy. Colorado, Minnesota and Cali both have referred to NY's recent enactment as their justification to follow. Some states won't bend... not yet. But this is how it starts. One big gun grab win sets a dangerous precident that is sure to slowly leak into other states over time.
States like Texas aren't likely to bend... at least not any time soon. But the more and more states that continue this action leads more and more people to believe that they are reasonable actions. And that's what the scary part is. If the situation happened that 49 of the states had magazine capacity laws, and Texas was the only one without, I would bet good money that more people in Texas would be willing to compromise, simply because it's common place in every other state. Yours is definitely not a blue state, but don't be disillusioned to the fact that it's not nearly as red as it was 20 years ago. And certainly don't underestimate the power of "peer pressure", not only from state to state, but from resident to resident.
Cali was perfectly ok with it's ridiculous laws about firearms. They tried to push new stuff through, but now they went for big air, a lot of it resulting from NY's policies. AWB proposed in several other states that have not proposed them. More support for mag capacity limits. More support for useless background checks. The trickle down will hit Texas. Not immediately, but it will happen.
2A supporters from every state should be fighting against gun control laws, even in states that are not their own. No foothold should be given. And this is important enough of an issue, that the state governments need to hear the protests from ALL gun owners collectively. As a resident of Cali, I wrote NY representatives to let them know my distaste. I plan on writing and emailing any representative of any state that tries to enact useless policy. I highly encourage everyone else to do the same.