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Weekly Politics Thread

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u/TechnologyReady Radical Centrist Jun 15 '22

I don't understand people saying "making laws difficult/impossible to reverse by future CPC governments."

Can anybody explain what this means? If the LPC brings in gun regulations by OIC, the CPC can remove them by OIC just as easily? This isn't a one-way street.

Any legislation actually passed would have to go through Parliament, so the CPC would need a majority or coalition. But this isn't "harder" than the LPC currently have it. It's the same process. They have their coalition.

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u/NightFuryToni Jun 15 '22

Wild guess... I think what people really means is that it's politically unpalatable to reverse rather than legally and procedurally impossible to reverse. If a politician tries to reverse them, the anti-gunner lobbyists will scream bloody murder and so-so party is trying to cater to criminals. Remember that a lot of these OICs and bans came along after some tragic event in order to pass by emotions, and not passed by logic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

The fact they had this bill ready to go and were just waiting for some kids to die in America before they played on everyone’s emotions. How fucking sick is that? When they got the news of the Texas school shooting were they excited? Did they feel happiness because this was what they were anxiously waiting for? Turns my stomach. Evil shit.

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u/DistortoiseLP Jun 16 '22

If they were waiting for an American shooting to unveil it with, I'm unclear why they wouldn't have taken the opportunity presented by the Buffalo shooter a week earlier.

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u/throwa37 Jun 16 '22

The Buffalo shooting could very well have been the actual event they intended to capitalize on, with Uvalde being a "lucky" occurrence that just happened to play out right as the bill rolled out.

It's obvious that it was one or the other, though. The bill is obviously in an incomplete state, with many measures (like the storage and magazine provisions) being deferred to regulations that aren't done yet. It's also very telling that the handgun sales ban was announced just before the summer break - I'm sure their preference would have been to enact the "freeze" as soon as possible after the announcement, but they made the calculation that making their announcement on the heels of a high-profile atrocity was worth letting handguns fly off the shelves over the summer.