calodo2003
Flaming Full Member
One would think so. I envision we would see a western state (CA, WA, OR, CO) first try to tax the ammo, remember reading something about such a while back. I’ll search for it later. Those states, while being quite rural themselves, would be the easiest for such a referendum to pass due to political makeup.Yeah I totally get it. They have no option. I just feel so bad for them because it's rolling the dice every time. Surely has to stop somewhere. Giving cops heavier weapons and making them more elite won't work, because when working at speed there's fundamentally there's a difference between policing [saving lives by shooting the bad guy] and military tactics. [kill everything and justify it later] I don't even know anything about policing; it's just so painful watching it time after time. Policing shouldn't ever be about running in like rambo taking out a target intent on killing indiscriminately. Ask a bunch of marines to run into banks with civs running wild, zero intel, and active shooters and they'll tell you to feck off because its not WWI any more and they don't work for Wagner PMC. I don't even have an answer or point or anything; I just watch it and it feels incredibly painful. There's some cultural short circuit or something over there making psychos think this is okay? Perhaps it's the central and south American culture import because it just doesn't happen in the rest of the world.
Israel have a strict 50 round ammo limit on personal firearms. (even if you have multiple) - This applies to all weapons, including those and to those that the police request carry weapons at all times. Surely something this simple would massively help? There's never a need for more than 50 rounds. Or well, I don't see one? And it's not unconstitutional surely, they have the right to bear arms. The constitution mentions nothing about ammo, so the textualists/right wing justices can stick it up their asses?
But that just means buyers will go to other states to bring ammo back.
Until there is a federal law that truly goes towards mitigating the crisis, it’s never going to get better.