Reporter/camera man murdered.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

It seems to me that the average American only "needs" a gun because every other fucker has one too.

I don't get what's different about the US, plenty of other countries get by without guns being available to everyone. At the very least, you should have to go through serious background and competence checks every time you want a gun, in my opinion. And you should need an actual reason too. That's how it seems to be in England; some people do have guns, but they have a reason for it. The fact that "self defence against everyone else who has guns" is considered a reason is the problem. I don't consider "I like guns and I want one" a good enough reason either.

But that's just me. This isn't about oppressing people, it's about keeping needlessly dangerous items out of general circulation.

Walmart runs a background check at point of sale (it's usually done in minutes but -can- take days and you just don;t get to leave the store /w the gun until it;s handled), -on this form..they actually do ask you the purpose for the purchase, and they're not exactly bastions of good policy and responsible merchandising.  Doesn;t seem to hurt their sales, and it;s not something that people picket walmart over - so I don't see why that couldn't be a reality everywhere....since it already is in every walmart.  The only place you can get a gun scott-free, as it were, is a P2P sale.  That's why guns shows are so big, it's a P2P tent sell, essentially, so they're allowed to circumvent laws and standard industry practice - and even as a "gun nut" myself I can see that this needs to be changed.  It shouldn't be possible for me to point to walmart as a beacon of responsibility in firearm sales, relative to the rest........eh?

If a person wants a gun all he has to do is burglarize three random houses and he will get at least four or five guns.  No background check hassle.