More On Guns.

I post a lot about gun control partly because I'm a gun owner and enthusiast, also because it seems to be the current liberty chosen by politicians to assault. In this blog I just want to highlight a few reactionary proposed changes that make little to no sense for actual public safety.

1. Background Check
1. Is this really going to stop a criminal from obtaining a firearm? Anybody watch 'The First 48'? Criminals do not go to Dicks Sporting Goods to buy a gun. As porous as the border is the criminals will just be bringing in guns from where ever they can. Some places are even putting in place ammo checks as well.
2. Assault Weapon Ban
• This is ridiculous on it's own merits. They try to define what an 'Assault Rifle' is by cataloging any changes to the gun's appearance. If you own a semi-auto rifle with wood stocks its fine, add a synthetic grip and a muzzle gaurd and BAM it's an 'Assault Rifle'. Dianne Feinstein needs to get a grip, really. 
3. Magazine Bullet Limits
• Some bills want to limit the number of bullets to 10, others 7. I've watched kids go through shells in a crack back shotgun fast enough so that if involved in a shooting, no one would get near them. This is another nonsensical application of law. It only affects LAW ABIDING citizens. Do you really expect criminals to worry about this? A 3D printer can print magazines of any size and the criminals are usually the ones that'll invest in that technology to have them.
4. Private Gun Insurance
•  For real. California is the culprit behind this monstrosity. They are trying to push a requirement for gun owners to have insurance should the gun be used to harm anyone. For one thing, most insurances are null and void if anything that could be covered under the insurance is harmed or damaged in the course of a crime. Go and look up all those shootings the Liberals tout as reasoning behind gun laws. All crimes.
5. Registration Of Assault Rifles 
• How is this going to stop crime? So now the government has a list, so what? All this serves to do is centralize information should the need arise to confiscate. NO OTHER REASON. Current and future threats to the administration of law as seen through the prism of oppression. Criminals will NOT register their guns. The 'bad guys' do not tell the 'good guys' what cards they're holding.
6.  Mental Health Laws
• This is a double edged sword. On one hand I could advocate not letting a batshit crazy person get a gun, on the other hand I think this will drive people away from getting care for mental issues. Currently California is actually confiscating LEGALLY owned firearms from people diagnosed with mental issues. That includes soldiers that have fought for our country that came back with PTSD. The numbers of veterans seeking treatment for PTSD will fall and suicides/homocides will rise in this demographic because of this law.
7. Increase Penalties For Gun Violence
• This one is the only one I can get behind, but it'll only get the dumb ones. If you look at the people that have been involved in the big messy shootings the politicians use as a backdrop, the perpetrators are going away for the rest of their life anyway. Again, this won't stop these acts. 

These laws, while good intentioned, are championed by politicians as a solution. Anybody see any solutions in these seven outlined? Is anyone really going to be safer as a result? Doubt it. All it serves to do is criminalize non-criminals. As far as I can see the only thing they improved upon is penalties for gun crime. Politicians doing what politicians do, very little that makes sense just what makes them appear to be working.

That's my two cents, spend 'em or put 'em in the dish for the next person.