“Saving lives now and in the future has been my single goal,” Sen. King said.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Angus King of Maine was introducing a gun control bill Thursday that he said would regulate the sale, transfer, and manufacture of gas-operated semi-automatic weapons.

King, an Independent, and Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, were introducing the bill together, called the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    This is called wasting political capital, and both parties need to learn that term.

    As a liberal gun nut, this shit pisses me off. Performative legislation that is certain to be struck down and which takes away from solutions that might help.

    And excepting the recent lunatic, does Maine have a gun problem?! I would guess NO.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      Sooner we get to comprehensive health reform and registering firearms like personal cars the better imo, but lemmy isn’t ready for that conversation.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Meh… I’m not ready for registration, and maybe I’ll be proven wrong someday.

        Imagine you’re Shalafi. 40+ guns of all sorts and surrounded by half-and-half liberal and conservative neighbors. Everyone knows you’re armed to the teeth. Only have 2 out the safe, and many are in pieces, or aren’t really “guns” (black powder/pellet/BB). But still, you’re an armed liberal.

        Some of your neighbors are dear friends, some merely acquaintances, some actively hate your guts. (Never fuck the girl next door guys, just don’t.)

        Given the current political climate, how much you willing to bet some of these boys won’t become Brown Shirts in 2024? Maybe come around with a list? A government list you’re on for owning $X. Maybe they’re just “checking” on folks like you, “for your own protection”? It’s the Deep South, so they feel safe going door to door. The black folks on the street are willing to talk to the man flying a Trump 2024 flag, be neighborly. How much resistance they expect?

        You loathe being in this state of mind. You’re disgusted your America has come to this. Revolted that the American flag has become a virtue signal for fascists.

        But you see where the paranoid conservatives have been coming from regarding registration. All good until the opposition takes the reins. And this time the opposition ain’t trying to merely ban AR-15s. They’ve declared you to be “vermin”, an “internal enemy”, one that must be wiped out. They wish to ban your very life.

        You’ll just have to imagine you’re Shalafi.