Sanctions

Sounds like the U.S. has sanctions on just about everyone. So what the heck is a sanction?

Trade sanctions are a subcategory of economic sanctions, which are commercial and financial penalties imposed by one or more countries, and targeted against a country, organization, group, or individual.

Trade sanctions have the express purpose of making it more difficult if not impossible for the nation(s) bearing the sanction to trade with the nation imposing it. Trade sanctions act as a sort of stick and carrot in foreign and economic policy, in international politics and trade. Governments impose sanctions with the express purpose of changing the behavior and policy of another government or state.

Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or with rules and regulations. Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment, such as corporal or capital punishment, incarceration, or severe fines. Within the civil law context, sanctions are usually monetary fines, levied against a party to a lawsuit or his/her attorney, for violating rules of procedure, or for abusing the judicial process. The most severe sanction in a civil lawsuit is the involuntary dismissal, with prejudice, of a complaining party’s cause of action, or of the responding party's answer. This has the effect of deciding the entire action against the sanctioned party without recourse, except to the degree that an appeal or trial de novo may be allowed because of reversible error.

Sanctions are a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Synonyms:

penalty · punishment · deterrent · punitive action · discipline · penalization · correction · retribution · embargo · ban · prohibition · boycott · barrier · restriction · tariff

Sanctions are measures taken by a nation to coerce another to conform to an international agreement or norms of conduct, typically in the form of restrictions on trade or on participation in official sporting events.

The sanction philosophy is a consideration operating to enforce obedience to any rule of conduct.

Synonyms:

authorization · consent · leave · permission · authority · warrant · license · dispensation · assent · acquiescence · agreement · approval · seal/stamp of approval · approbation · recognition · endorsement · accreditation · confirmation · ratification · validation · blessing · imprimatur · clearance · acceptance · allowance · the go-ahead · the thumbs up · the OK · the green light · say-so · permit · support · backing · approval · seal of approval · agreement · acceptance · recommendation · advocacy · championship · patronage · affirmation · confirmation · authorization · authentication · ratification · warrant · validation · license · rubber stamp · the nod · the thumbs up · the OK · authorize · consent to · permit · allow · give leave for · give permission for · warrant · accredit · license · give assent to · endorse · agree to · approve · accept · give one’s blessing to · back · support · give the thumbs up to · give the green light to · OK · approbate

So if you are not following the rules, you get punishment called a sanction. If you follow the rules, you get a good sanction.

So a parking ticket or DUI arrest or public nuisance warning is a sanction for not obeying the rules where a raise is a sanction of approval for good work with a possible promotion sanction.

Now if the ‘rules’ are created by society for the public good and we all agree on them, a sanction tells those who disagree or go beyond the majority guidelines they will be punished.

As politicians work so hard to avoid any laws that would reduce mass murder or semi-automatic weapons try sanctions?

Federal law highly regulates the manufacture, sale, and ownership of fully automatic weapons in the United States. For those unfamiliar with firearms nomenclature, a fully automatic weapon is one that is capable of firing multiple rounds with only one pull of the trigger; a semi-automatic weapon will fire only one round per trigger pull while preparing the gun to fire another round when the trigger is pulled again. The main federal law governing fully automatic weapons is called the National Firearms Act, or NFA. First enacted in 1934, this federal law regulates fully automatic weapons, suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and destructive devices such as bombs or grenades. Then the Firearm Owners Protection Act subsequently modified the NFA in 1968 by the Gun Control Act and in 1986.

So is there a sanction for what people don’t approve of, should there be a sanction on automatic weapons? How about tobacco? What about opioids? Child abuse would be a good one. How about animal abuse? Go far to create a sanction on the climate change.

So many problems and worthless laws as we destroy ourselves with straws and verbiage.