These people don't have a damn clue. The debt is already catastrophically out of control and likely impossible to ever repay yet this dip-shit thinks we can easily buy back all these weapons. I am taking a 6 week class offered by the local DEA here in Dallas and we went to the shooting range last Saturday and shot Glock pistols and a Semiautomatic rifle. So I asked one of the instructors if this was the gun everyone is flipping out about and he said yes and there are over 7 million of them in this country.
From what I gather online and depending upon how the rifle is spec'd, it could have cost the gun owner anywhere from $600 to $2,600
So if we say the average cost per gun of the buy back is $1,000 per gun, It would cost $7 billion just for the guns then the cost of disposal, the cost to forcibly remove them from unwilling participants, the cost of prosecution and incarceration for those who don't comply and then there will be a cost in lives from both sides as surely some police and some gun owners would be killed in the process. Then they have to continue to enforce the law which will be an ongoing cost and burden to what appears to be overwhelmed and understaffed police in virtually every city.
I think we need to think more deeply, creatively and intelligently about how to solve the problem of the extremists who abuse weapons vs banishment and buy-backs but that doesnt seem possible these days because everyone is so polarized and the political environment has gotten so strident and adversarial that no sane person wants to enter that arena.
Its really discouraging, I think we could do so much better and deserve better but people would rather fight over mundane shit versus taking the time to actually try to find non-political, intelligent strategies to address issues in the country and on this planet.
Warren is completely opposed to nuclear energy but there are ways to mitigate the concerns of the past as most plants are operating on decades old technology. Bill Gates is funding a program to utilize the spent fuel that is piling up in Tennessee so it can be used in much safer, newly designed nuclear plants that solve environmental concerns and dispose of the spent fuel. He had a deal with China to begin making these new units but Trump started the trade war and at present stopped that from going forward.
A 14 year old kid built a nuclear reactor in his garage and came up with the clever idea of miniaturized nuclear plans that utilize spent fuel as well and are so small and self contained that even if there was a problem, the amount of radiation that could potentially be leaked would not be an issue; these could be placed around the planet providing cheap energy to virtually everyone yet I am sure this is going no where because of politics and lobbyists for other energy sources that don't want competition. Virtually everyone else is ignorant on the topic and therefore so fearful that it's never even discussed as a valid option but it should at the very least be on the table for discussion (imho).
And here's Bernie dumbass recent "brilliant" remarks:
I seriously doubt he has ever had a job for any significant length of time that was dependent upon actually creating a product or service the public must desire to purchase and knows the kind of hard work involved to remain competitive yet he has the audacity to believe he knows how to spend every one elses money. People like this make me sick. It would be great if human beings were so extrinsically motivated that amazing things would happen by everyone devoting their life to service to the others but thats not the real world, ain't ever gonna happen and we have plenty of examples from the USSR to show us how pitiful a system enforced upon the masses is, yet he and others still want to chase this non-existent utopia.
Gawd help the planet if people of this ilk ever get what they want in this country
Where do we escape to when there is no longer a USA with free speech, free markets, etc?
