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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people  who say that current laws are working and that they just need to be enforced are using a stupid and desperate argument. The families of Forty thousand dead Americans say otherwise[/quote]

Nobody is making the “stupid and desperate” straw man argument you raise. Current laws are not working because they are not enforced. When every felon caught in possession of a firearm spends ten years in federal prison and then a consecutive term of years in state prison for the concomitant state offense, crime will go down. When every person caught making use of a firearm in commission of a felony and/or a crime of violence is imprisoned for the maximum duration with consecutive federal and state sentences, crime will go down. When every straw purchaser is prosecuted and given the maximum consecutive federal and state penalties, crime will go down. When every person found carrying a firearm unlawfully is prosecuted and given the maximum sentence, crime will go down.

These things are not being done. When they are done (project exile, for example) they are extremely effective. Then political pressure comes to hear because certain interest groups don’t like the demographics of the persons being imprisoned. [/quote]

What is the basis for saying the laws are not being enforced?  Why do people on this thread keep saying this?

The US has the highest per capita prison rate of any developed country.  We have already tried locking up the bad guys in perpetuity and it does not really solve our gun problem.[/quote]

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