Half of them are under Dept of Defense, which is military . Then theres the CIA which is classed as "independent" but the rest are under Justice, Homeland Security, Treasury or Energy. However they are all under the aegis of Intelligence Community with a singular administrative office.
They can work independently or together
Ok so what do you propose we do about this? What legal, extralegal, actionable plans can we as a country execute to "drain the swamp"?
I suggest that the number of people who should not be allowed to have kids FAR outnumbers the number of people who should not be allowed to own guns.
Repubs or Dems, they all support their own agenda - that which gets them re-elected. Though, as a generalization, far more Republicans support gun ownership and limited restrictions than do Democrats.
How about our leadership start being honest with American citizen. Saying what you mean and following the intent of the constitution. There is thing called honesty and we should demand that from all leaders. Once we set that standard we can start to communicate.Ok so what do you propose we do about this? What legal, extralegal, actionable plans can we as a country execute to "drain the swamp"?
Please tell me any law the Republicans have reverted for gun owners. Just one would. Inaction is not helping the cause.
FOPA 1986? In direct relation to New Jerseys law that said no one, not even nonresidents are immune to their laws?
let's crunch the numbers here.
Approx 300 million+ guns are known to have been produced and sold in America in the history of America;
There are approximately 100+ million gun owners of all types at the low end of estimates;
of that number, perhaps 1 percent of American gun owners have the brass balls to stand up to the tyranny...but that is still a significant number at 1 million plus. (That's just one percent, leaving 99 percent to be either killed, cowed into submission, arrested, or apathetic, or actively working against other gun owners)
Compare to the numbers for the military personnel; approximately 1.3 million Active Duty personnel with about 800,000 in 7 reserves components... spread out between US Army, USAF, US Navy (and Marines), and US Coast Guard.
The majority of these Active Duty personnel are support/logistics personnel, a military needs cooks, mechanics, quartermasters, clerks, and other support personnel to fight effectively.
With 1 million plus potential combatants spread all around the United States, and the support from families, communities, other gun owners, and so on, I do not think the US Federal Government would want to take on a potential insurrection and rebellion of armed Americans.... although it does seem like some States are trying to actively make enemies of gun owning Americans
Back to the topic. it is clear that they are trying to remove Constitutional Rights from minors before they are of age... all in the name of "safety" when really, it is about control of the people.
You are exactly right with your example and there is much more room for abuse of these red flag laws. Step children, ex's, and the list will go on and on.
And God help ya, if your kid doodles a picture of a gun at school now. This could open up a whole new dimension with zero tolerance policies. Your brother's ex isn't the only bat-chit crazy person around. I suspect there's a bunch of them in King Co and all up and down the west coast.
Let's try something in the last two years when Republicans controlled the house Senate and presidency. Seems like it would have been the perfect time if there ever was one.
When the Republicans controlled the government and did nothing that's inaction or if you wish doing nothing.
