By the way, blue line fish, what is your opinion on the matter? Would you arrest someone for violation of a new federal assault weapons ban if one passed? Keep in the mind the theoretical weapon is NJ compliant but newly banned in our hypothetical situation.

 

 

What I do in a given situation is not up for discussion on a public forum. My discretion is just that..discretion based on a situation that is between me and the individual involved.

Thank you

And if AW are ok, why only stop there? Why not allow automatic weapons? If you can afford it, why not be able to have your own nuclear weapon? Where do you draw the line in what's ok and what isn't?

 

So sue me, I'm feeding the troll.

 

A couple points to this comment. Where do you draw the line? That's the sibling to "the founding fathers never could have envisioned weapons like these." The founding fathers also couldn't have envisioned medical care like we have today, so keep in mind how much more lethal things were back then. Then remember that our founding fathers, and their close successors in managing the government, very often had to borrow or lease cannon and warships from private individuals. These were the weapons that one used to lay siege to cities, wage war between nations, and were generally the most deadly things on the planet.

 

Also keep in mind that all the laws in the world don't matter. Materials technology is improving and getting cheaper every day. As a planet we have to learn how to cope with it. Precision CNC manufacturing is getting within reach of the individual, never mind a small business. Same with all the equipment needed to make biological weapons. That's just knowledge plus the gear for a small craft brewery. Explosives have been at that level for a while. At a national level, we have to cope with the fact that nuclear weapons are within reach fiscally and technologically of many more nations than before, and that number will just increase.

 

You are never going to be able to put a cap on the tools of violence. A case in point, the 1986 machine gun ban. It's not like the parts are that hard to make by a private individual these days. THe cost to tool up to do it would be WAY less than the cost to legally acquire a pre-1986 machine gun. The ONLY reason people don't is because you are then choosing between being a criminal, and the hassles that entails, and obeying the law. If those making the law are intent on making you a criminal anyway, why obey any of the laws? This is one of the major issues with prohibition of any sort.

Typical payback to reward unions, hire more police, more money to schools (teachers).