Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by Dylan16807 on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:21PM
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> I like the idea of not supporting laws you're not willing to enforce by gun.
That's a really low bar.
For example, I think shoplifting should be illegal. 99.9% of the time no guns will need to be involved. But if someone is sufficiently willing to escalate, it becomes a matter of letting them steal whatever they want from stores, whenever they want, or enforcing it with a gun. You could fine them, but someone with that attitude would just ignore the fine. So yes, I'm willing to enforce shoplifting with a gun, as a last resort.
But if shoplifting is my point of comparison... I think right now that not wearing a mask is worse than shoplifting. So yes, let's enforce it. Try extremely hard to keep guns out of it, but don't just give up on making it a rule at all.
- On the other hand, -
all of the above is assuming that someone would go to ridiculously escalated and brandishing measures to fight the law. If we assume they won't do that, the situation is completely different. No guns would be necessary to enforce either of those laws, so just enforce them with safe measures. There's no need for your rule of thumb in that case.
That's a really low bar.
For example, I think shoplifting should be illegal. 99.9% of the time no guns will need to be involved. But if someone is sufficiently willing to escalate, it becomes a matter of letting them steal whatever they want from stores, whenever they want, or enforcing it with a gun. You could fine them, but someone with that attitude would just ignore the fine. So yes, I'm willing to enforce shoplifting with a gun, as a last resort.
But if shoplifting is my point of comparison... I think right now that not wearing a mask is worse than shoplifting. So yes, let's enforce it. Try extremely hard to keep guns out of it, but don't just give up on making it a rule at all.
- On the other hand, -
all of the above is assuming that someone would go to ridiculously escalated and brandishing measures to fight the law. If we assume they won't do that, the situation is completely different. No guns would be necessary to enforce either of those laws, so just enforce them with safe measures. There's no need for your rule of thumb in that case.