More Gun Control talk

Well, here we go again.  Another week, another shooting and more posturing from our politicians.  As everyone knows by now, there has been a rash of shootings in 2012.  There was the Oikos University shootings, the  Aurora shootings, the Sikh Temple shootings, and the now infamous Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.  Not to mention all the other shootings where only a few people people were killed (Millard South High School and University of Alabama).

I'm sure many have already pointed this out, but new gun control regulation will have little effect on gun crimes.  America, being the homeland of gun, cannot be disarmed.  It would be next to impossible to go door to door and take guns away from American citizens, and we all know that going door-to-door is the only way to really "control guns".  In addition, any government regulation seeking to limit the 2nd Amendment is bound to hurt only law abiding citizens and not criminals.

Since I live in California, we have the strictest gun control in the Union.  I heard someone say that we have over 10,000 gun laws in California, but I don't know if it is really that much.  I looking it up and only counted 20 some odd:

California Gun Laws - All 50 pages.  Still pretty damn convoluted.

It's interesting to note that a nunchaku is outlawed along with guns under Penal Code Sec. 12020(c)(3).  It's defined on page 6 as "an instrument consisting of two or more sticks, clubs, bars, or rods to be used as handles connected by a rope, cord, wire, or chain."  This is in the same section which covers sawed-off shot guns, which kinda makes carrying a pair of nunchucks just as bad as a hiding a sawed-off shot gun in your coat.

Nunchuck skills

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12 gauge 00 buckshot

All kidding aside, the new laws being passed in New York and endorsed by the president will have little to no impact on gun crime.  Unfortunately, these laws only serve as "feel-good" legislation.  The kind of laws that politicians pass to make them look good to the electorate.  It's a big waste of tax dollars to even draft up more laws.  How about we enforce the ones we already have?  I think the only silver lining to this new gun legislation is that it will have negligible impact on California since our rules are already so strict.  Perhaps ammunition prices and gun prices may go up slightly as people panic and rush to their local firearm dealer.

Why does there seem too be more and more gun crime recently in the US?  It could more news reporting, but even if you comb through the records, there is undeniably more shootings in the 2000's than the 1990's, and more in the 1990's than the 1980's.  The 2010's are shaping up to be a hell of a decade for gun violence.  I really don't know why, except to say that the economy has been pretty crappy and everyone is just feeling more tense these days.  People I know are just generally uneasy about the state of the country.  Also, I think guns have gotten more powerful, easier to use, and cheaper over the years.  Maybe I'll write an article about that last one.