re: #81 palomino

These proposals aren’t extreme, at least not in comparison to the rest of the developed world. Even if the bill in question passes, IL and the rest of the US still have far fewer firearm regulations than all those countries that, you know, don’t have 10,000 gun murders each year.

I’m not a fan of assault weapons bans because I don’t think they do much to solve any of our society’s real problems. For instance, today I put money down on used early 1980’s Smith and Wesson Model 60 .38 Special. Just looking at it from a typical law enforcement basis, compared to a semi auto AK47 or AR15 that little five shot revolver is probably far more problematic, more concealable and conducive to criminality.

However our culture is swimming in guns of all types, so I don’t see where instituting a ban is going to bear fruit on a time scale of less than a millennium. Better to focus on the actual roots of violent crime, things like education, fighting poverty, ending the drug war, etc.