Nine hundred and ninety-five years of gaol is the minimum gaol sentence prescribed under existing American Federal law for a typical criminal misuse of firearms. Up, then, comes the anti-gun activist Senator Schumer, calling for tougher gun laws to make America safer. If this doesn't spell out a clear warning to Australian gun owners about what to expect, then it should. There is no end to calls for more gun laws. Too few people stop and ask what the existing penalties already are and what they're achieving.
Politicians can get too much free publicity from a compliant media by calling for more.
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