What are they protecting? So what if he sold the gun legally?
I honestly don’t know what any of that means.
Few more from today:
.
.
.
Reloading handgun ammo is more trouble than it’s worth in my opinion, but it’s something any layman can do with the time, up-front money (it saves in the long run if you use a lot of ammo but it costs a lot to start), and willingness to do so. (My dad does it and he’s no gunsmith.)
I suppose you could also restrict the materials used for reloading if you can restrict ammo.
There are lots of things that people can easily do for themselves, but that most don’t, and so restricting the quick-and-convenient option has significant effects on behavior, across the population.
Car to car shooting on the freeway.
It means right-wing Americans think the idea of a years-long moratorium on the sale of new guns while the used guns settle into safe hands and guns used in crimes are destroyed is very bad. I brought it up on a right-wing board called Free Republic years ago and it didn’t go over well.
That maybe someone didn’t do a background check like they should have?
Background checks only keep guns out of the hands of people who have already committed certain crimes, not people who will do so in the future.
Not that red flag laws really help when local law enforcement decide not to enforce, like that evil MFer in Colorado Springs recently.
That fucknugget was a walking red flag who actually could have conceivably been at least deterred at an earlier stage if the local cops, like PK, didn’t decide arbitrarily which laws they they wanted to enforce.
What taxes are drug dealers paying? It’s all black market.
I suspect this means stuff like sales tax when they spend their ill-gotten gains, etc. Basically that not all their money disappears into some black-market economy. Or money laundering wouldn’t be a thing.
That was my thought, as well.
Well, at some point you have to decide which cases are the most urgent, if you have limited resources. However, I would bet that lots of people who think gun laws ought to be laxly enforced due to higher priorities would not also think that the federal government’s prioritization of dangerous illegal immigrants over run-of-the-mill ones is valid.
And the point of laundering money is to legitimize (or at least create the appearance of legitimacy) it, which means paying taxes on it.
If you’re trying to be fair, kudos to you. Seriously.
But we do too much of that, and in this case, the El Paso county (where it happened) Sheriff is publicly opposed to red flag laws and, before the Club Q shooting, bragged about not enforcing them. He’s subsequently gone quiet on the subject. Unsurprising, given the shooter has a history - he had been arrested and charged with felonies last year due to a bomb threat and with threatening to kill his mother. As I stated earlier, that guy was a huge walking red flag and nobody in their right mind would think he needed the ability to continue to purchase weapons legally, which he subsequently did and which he used to kill innocent people.
It has fuck-all to do with resources and everything to do with megalomaniacal law enforcement types thinking they’re King Shit of their own pissant domains.
In the show Breaking Bad, one of the running storylines was that he needed a way to make it look like he had a real source of income to explain where all of his money came from. At one point he claimed to have won big gambling, and then later he bought a car wash. He did eventually pay taxes on all of that money.
In The Wire they owned a couple gyms, as it was a business where you could have hundreds of paying memberships, but an empty gym.
One of the subplots there was that he was trying to make it entirely legitimate, finding that they were actually making more money on the businesses that they had bought as laundering fronts.
Just to continue with this for a moment longer: they had a plot in the comics where Batman covertly replaces the head of an international crime syndicate that of course operates a bunch of front companies — and that could easily move contraband across borders, given how many of the folks in its employ innocuously transport food or medicine or whatever — and that otherwise constantly keeps some of the guys on its payroll plugging away at stuff that raises no eyebrows, the better to smooth the way for other guys on the payroll to get away with various illegal activities.
The punchline, of course, is that there eventually aren’t any other such guys, because the businesslike façade has become the whole operation…
Correct, that was what I meant.