Not everyone understands guns.
That’s not a sin or anything of the sort. It’s pretty normal, really. Most of us are unfamiliar with tons of things. I don’t know jack about bookbinding or brewing beer. Those are cool things, but they’re not what I do, so I don’t understand them. For many other people, guns are kind of the same thing.
Which is fine.
When it becomes an issue is when you’re an elected official and the media praises you for your gun control fight and you show that you know jack squat about the topic.
That’s exactly what happened with one San Diego County supervisor.
Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer has made firearm regulations a cornerstone of her policy agenda since joining the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
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Since joining the Board of Supervisors, Lawson-Remer has championed several gun control measures. In 2022, she played a key role in passing an ordinance banning ghost guns in San Diego County.
“If we’re going to have firearms in our country, we need to have serial numbers on them so that we can trace them if they are used in a crime,” Lawson-Remer said.
Except that gun tracing has never resulted in a single arrest anywhere in the country that anyone has been able to show. People have looked, too, and there’s not a single one.
The problem with “gun tracing” as an argument is that the best that can happen is that it gets traced to the original gun buyer. That is rarely the person committing the crime being investigated.
The moment it’s sold or stolen, the tracing becomes far more difficult, if not outright impossible. Yes, even in universal background states. No one, so far as I’m aware, is required to retain any information on who bought the gun or where they went to get the transfer handled, so unless they remember exactly where they went, the tracing hits a dead end then and there.
And if it’s stolen, well, the problems there become obvious.
Meanwhile, the state of California already has restrictions on so-called ghost guns, but those restrictions only impact people interested in complying with the law. San Diego County’s measure is much the same way, with one major difference. All a county can pass is a misdemeanor, which means the stakes are practically non-existent for criminals.
It’s not difficult to see all of this, but Lawson-Remer is either too ignorant to understand that or she’s willfully ignoring it. I’ll let you decide which it is.
Yet this wasn’t her only bout of stupid in this piece.
Oh no, it gets worse.
Lawson-Remer has also focused on holding gun manufacturers accountable.
“We know that gun violence in this country is out of control, and it’s happening because you have these greedy gun companies who just don’t care about the cost of human life,” she stated.
The “greedy gun companies” that don’t put a gun directly in anyone’s hand anywhere in the country?
If I order a gun directly from Smith & Wesson or Glock, they’re not going to send it to me, but to whatever FFL I ask them to. Then that FFL will give me a call and tell me it’s there. I can then go and handle all the relevant paperwork and follow all the relevant laws in order to take possession of the gun. If I can’t pass the background check, it goes back to the gun manufacturer.
So, how are guns in criminal hands the fault of companies that literally don’t send a gun directly to any consumer?
The gun industry is an easy scapegoat for a political lightweight like Lawson-Remer, who is likely doing all she can to angle for higher office, all while showing anyone who knows anything about guns how absolutely stupid she is on the topic she’s trying to make her name on.
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