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Old Dorms Rule!

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I don't see those as big issues on this issue


It'd be all in the way we went about it. I'm thinking of my grandkids, not next month or next year. You'd start with a ban on manufacture of the prohibited stuff, a prohibition on new sale of those items still in stores, and an immediate buyback of all unsold inventory from dealers/stores, etc. Then a very very extended (several years at least) buy-back or $ for $ tax credit period for the literally tons and tons and millions and millions of pieces of soon-to-be-illegal-but-not-yet stuff already in private hands. Then an amnesty period before the criminal penalties become effective.

I don't think there's much racial disparity in the % of ownership of clip-loading semi-autos (I'm including handguns in this), and so wouldn't expect a racial conviction disparity other than the general disparity that already exists (50% of pot arrests are minorities when pot use % is virtually the same for whites and minorites for example). If semi-auto long guns only (not a compromise I'd want), I'd bet there are more white owners of those. And the years-long progression from buy-back to criminalization would give everybody who wants it a chance to avoid penalties, so I don't see a huge increase in the prison population resulting as long as a very extended timeline was a part of it.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 04/23/2018 at 2:10PM



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  Not to mention -- hoolstoptheheels 04/23/2018 1:53PM
  I think this presents a great argument for clip capacity limits -- Old Dorms Rule! 04/23/2018 11:38AM
  The jerk here is you, Hooda.** -- WaxHoo 04/23/2018 11:22AM
  Savage ** -- wahoo138 04/23/2018 11:51AM
  I know. That's why I don't bother anymore. ** -- WaxHoo 04/23/2018 11:26AM
  The jerk here is you, Hooda. ** -- WaxHoo 04/23/2018 11:20AM
  Thoughts and prayers. ** -- HoosWillWin 04/23/2018 10:53AM

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