You can buy American made clothes if you know where to look, yeah. Made with American equipment is even another layer beyond that though; that’s PURE isolationism. Made in America with American workers is plenty lol. If they buy the equipment once for their shop from China or Mexico but are an American company in America with American workers that’s plenty to be “American” IMO. I’ll check on phones.
Yeah, I’m agreeing that having literally everything from America down to the very source materials and equipment is asinine. So I can’t have my ashwagandha since it’s grown overseas?
I can point you to any number of other industries that make far under $15/hour, including some fairly skilled and/or dangerous jobs. All raising minimum wage to $15 without raising the jobs currently at $15 would do is make entry level minimum wage jobs pay the same as much more skilled and/or dangerous jobs. And if you increase wages across the board, all you did is devalue savings people already have.
Horrible, terrible, awful idea. Sad.
It’s not just the NRA. What if a man accuses his (ex) wife or something, either that she threatened him or that she’s mentally unstable, and then her legal gun is taken away from her and now the abusive husband knows that his wife is unarmed and an easier target to attack. That’s very dangerous.
If a mental health professional deems someone such a threat that they shouldn’t own a gun, maybe they should be Baker Acted, and then it’s a moot point really, as they won’t have access to their guns while Baker Acted, but therefore also won’t need them confiscated at that time either.
If they are believed to pose a danger to someone to the point of taking their guns without due process, they should be Baker Acted. Problem solved. And if you’re arrested for a violent crime and they think you’re such a danger that they want to take your guns without due process, you should be in jail without bond so you can’t harm anyone. Problem solved again.
In all fairness, the school shooting in Parkland was NOT something that they would have needed to bypass due process to prevent. The local PD received dozens of calls about the shooter and never arrested him. You’d think after a dozen calls you’d do something. But the local PD has a thing/deal/policy/etc. with the local school district to not arrest students as much to make them both look better, so he didn’t show up as having any arrests. The FBI also got a tip that he was going to shoot someone before he did. That combined with arrests, if he had any, would have made due process very easy if they had wanted to take guns from him, and would also have likely kept him from being able to buy one in the first place. This wasn’t a case where we need new laws, it’s a case where current laws need to be actually enforced and followed up on.
Except not every person at a bar drinks, and not every person would be above the BAC limit. Regardless, drunk driving is so amazingly tangential and irrelevant to the discussion of GUNS AND DUE PROCESS it’s amazing how you could even bring it up.
Except that the number of crimes that could be committed by exploiting this proposed idea, and the number of potentially innocent victims of crime you’d create could absolutely dwarf the number of shootings you’d prevent. Not to mention that a party in power could use it on a mass scale to deprive entire groups of people of their constitutional rights without due process. It’s a terrible idea.
As part of a bail agreement, perhaps. But allowing one “mental health professional” to do it without due process, absolutely not. Better not piss off your therapist lol.