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I'm not succumbing to anything. I'm simply saying punish those who actually commit a crime WHILE using a firearm in the commission of that crime. Some would call it "getting tough on crime". Erase all the bs NJ anti-gun law that do zero to deter crime and only destroy the lives of otherwise law abiding citzens.
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15 hours ago, Shane45 said:"1. Commit a crime while using a firearm (bank robbery, home invasion, rape, mugging, etc, etc) get a decade added to your prison term when found guilty. No pleading down to a lesser charge. No making the gun charge go away. "
If you demonize the inanimate object it will remain the focus instead of the individual.
No. The libs don't want violence committed with firearms. So make the penalty harsher if a crime is committed using a firearm. Make it absolute that the punishment will be handed down rather than plead away.
It's not "demonizing the inanimate object". It's letting the populace know that harsher penalties WILL BE imposed if caught committing a crime while using a firearm to help commit that crime. Rather than not committing a crime and simply having a firearm in your possession is the crime. The laws right now are "demonizing the inanimate object" rather than the actions of the individual. If it's discovered that a person in a liquor store is CCing while shopping in NJ the firearm is the violation. The person has committed no crime. They've not acted with bad intentions.
To use your terminology, it would actually be "de-demonizing" the object because law abiding citizens would be allowed more freedom to purchase and carry. As firearms become more social acceptable in places like NJ, their stigmata would be slowly eroded away.
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If politicians were serious about "common sense" gun control it would look something like this:
1. Commit a crime while using a firearm (bank robbery, home invasion, rape, mugging, etc, etc) get a decade added to your prison term when found guilty. No pleading down to a lesser charge. No making the gun charge go away.
1a) Ex-felons found with any firearm (which is in and of itself a violation of law) go to jail for 10 years minimum. Even if the crime which led to their arrest was entirely nonviolent.
2. Expand firearm rights for legal gun owners. Examples - do away with mag limits, do away with "evil features" which in reality are simply cosmetic differences, allow law abiding citizens the right to carry conceal, do away with the permitting scheme. Does't have to be all at once. Can be over time. Once it is evident that "blood isn't running in the streets" and "main street hasn't become the wild west" then continue to further expand law abiding citizens rights. The place that has blood running in the streets and what seems to be nonstop shootings is Detroit. A city with some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country.
The above would be a "compromise". Criminals using firearms or felons possessing firearms receive harsh sentence. Law abiding gun owners remain overtaxed, but much happier, NJ citizens. Police and prosecutors can focus on criminals rather than looking for ways to destroy law abiding gun owners lives (Shaneen Allen, Brian Atkin, Brian Fletcher, etc, etc)
Above will never happen because it is logical.
Are NJ gun owners on a sinking ship. Yes. The problem is so is EVERYONE else in NJ!
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Are NJ Gun Owners Rats On A Sinking Ship?
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Oh, I have no illusions that the laws aren't exactly as the politicians wnat them to be.
Mind blowing that people keep electing the same politicians. A lot of NJ suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.