This is the only thing that's struck me throughout this particular round of this same old debate.Feud wrote:The Executive Orders.
I don't have any immediate disagreements with the EOs signed. Contrary to VP Biden's suggestions over the last week, they are mainly directing the Federal government to do the job they are already supposed to be doing.
I have no problem with enforcement of existing gun laws, I strongly am in favor of them in fact.
For a nation that has the cultural history it has with guns, the US federal-level laws that have had extensive attention and work on them for years now, through painful compromise. Yet like so much law, it's effectiveness has been hamstrung by the willingness (or lack thereof) to enforce it properly. The US has been long overdue a serious campaign that forces an attitude shift amongst politicians and enforcement bodies where such laws are not merely showing that something is being done but actually doing something.
If there's any kind of outcry from the pro-gun lot at thse EOs it will only serve to highlight the existing problem with these fedral laws; that for too long they've been placations not actions.