For some gun safety advocates, the main goal of legislation is, curiously, not really legislative. John Lindsay-Poland, founder of the Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico Project, explained that he doesn’t expect gun control measures to become law in Texas, but he does see potential for cultural change. Because stats show both American and Mexican criminals use certain weapons and weapon accessories more than others, he believes Texas communities can pressure gun dealers to stop selling their most dangerous products. He said that filed legislation, even if it doesn’t become law, might help raise awareness about gun smuggling and turn up the heat on a cultural level.
[State Senator Sarah] Eckhardt sees things similarly: “Social messaging around intentions could ask, ‘Who are the good guys with guns?’ I’m pretty sure most would say that those who sell semi-automatics and pretend not to know where they’re going are not the good guys.” …
So, what’s the plan? Eckhardt, in her list of priorities for the upcoming session, has officially asked Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s office to research “weakening the ability of cartels to cause violence on both sides of the border.” As a former prosecutor, she emphasizes the need for legislation to both discourage gun trafficking and prosecute people who participate in it. Gutierrez is also committed to filing what he considers necessary, life-saving legislation focused on cartel gun access when he returns to the pink dome in January, even if it is unlikely to become law.
— Maggie Quinlan in Texas Dems Want Gun Safety Bill to Block Mexican Smuggling
“…he believes Texas communities can pressure gun dealers to stop selling their most dangerous products. ”
another misguided delusional effort of the anti-gun false logic.
The majority of the Mexican cartels/criminals (U.S. manufactured) guns do not come from U.S. ‘gun dealers’ but rather from the Mexican military who purchased the guns from U.S. manufacturers and unsavory individuals in the Mexican military sold them to the cartel/criminals.
The majority of U.S. criminals guns do not come from ‘gun dealers’. I don’t know why the anti-gun insist upon this, largely a, myth that a criminal can walk into any gun store and buy a gun. Are there straw purchases? Yes, sometimes, but that is not the gun dealers fault as they go by background check and if a person is not prohibited by the background check then you expect the gun dealer to guess? What if a computer store decided that a person would use the computer for some nefarious purpose, would you be wanting computer stores to not sell computers? What if a car dealership decided a person would drink and drive, would you not want the car dealership to sell cars? The majority of U.S. criminals guns come from stealing them or the criminal gang black market in guns gotten by illegal means.
You don’t solve a crime problem by going after the law abiding, you solve it by going after the criminal element and removing it from society.
This is yet another misguided false-logic effort by anti-gun to persecute the law abiding while ignoring the criminal element.
As usual, well said, .40 cal. In my senior years, I’m really starting to believe that no matter how much sense we make–your comments for example–the anti-gun crowd will simply continue their delusional trek. I wish I knew of some way to change their thinking, but as simple as the “cure” may seem to us on the “right” side of the law (yeah, pun intended), I don’t see any way that the left will convert to right thinking any time soon. In fact, the more time passes the more illogical and emotional the left gets about guns. If there is a way to get through to these people that would work, I don’t know what it is….