If we were only made of copper....

E'D BE SAFER!!

IN SC, We have to get a "scrapers" permit now a days just to bring our non ferrous metals to the scrap yard.  Before thieves decided stealing the wire right of the walls and the AC units disappeared from churches, there was no permit required...BUT due to this rash of metal thieves, new rules and laws were immediately put into place.  The past 2 years it was; Go to the Sheriff's office, show your ID and get a paper permit with your digits on it and good to go-- Once you get to the scrap yard, they enter your permit number and what you sold and what you were paid...THIS identifies any items that may be stolen. 

This YEAR since catalytic converters (platinum, palladium and rhodium) were added to the STOLEN LIST, the whole process GREW!! From just a copy of your Drivers License, to  three pages of questions to answer, they take a photo of you, you have to present your Vehicle Registration as well as your Drivers License AND renew it every 2 yrs. 

IT was MUCH easier  for that 18 yr old boy to buy 2 Semi-Auto Rifles at a gun show and walk into a school and gun down children and teachers than it was for me to sell my aluminum cans! 

And the other 18 yr old who went on a rampage last week and killed some grandmothers who were shopping in a grocery store because they were black!!
The lives of living breathing humans are not as valuable as the precious metals I guess...OR else there is no way ONE could walk up to a show or a store and walk out with two machines invented for KILLING humans...with no background check, no permit, nothing!!

AND yet when we got our "scrapers" permit...it's done at the SHERIFF'S office!! NOT gun permits..

check it out for  yourself..

https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/south-carolina/

I can't carry Copper Wire, Aluminum, or any other NON Ferrous metal without a permit!! I can't sell it without this permit...but people can carry a gun, carry a weapon, conceal it, and then bring it out and kill me with it. 
Just for S-n-G check out the "LAW" pertaining to these metals:

https://law.justia.com/codes/south-carolina/2012/title-16/chapter-17/section-16-17-680

IF I did sell these metals without a permit it's a felony!! ONLY 2 yrs of metals being stolen and something is done about it!! Guns murdering kids....nothing done, Guns murdering blacks nothing done, guns murdering movie goers, mall shoppers, your neighbor...road rage, 
NOTHING DONE!! Year after year...nothing. OH actually something has been done, Republicans have made it easier to get guns, to own guns, to get away with using guns to kill others...that has been done...laws to make it EASIER, not restrict, not control, not to track, but to make it easier!!

 DID YOU  know that in this state (SC) since Death sentences have not been carried out due to the lack of the one DRUG they used for the purpose, is now suddenly not available, they have put back the Firing Squad as a means to accomplish that?? OUR Congress voted  IN FAVOR OF IT,  Even tho Morphine, or Fentanyl, or even Insulin would do the job!!  A nation of gun toting lunatics is what this country has become...never mind the zombie apocalypse, it's the gun toting lunatics. 

IF you want to LIVE, NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!