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Who likes to accept the pointing finger? Gun-owners reject it because they feel such makes them complicit.

I'd love to have a system like they have in Japan where people are able to own guns, so long as they can prove they're responsible enough to be entrusted with a deadly weapon. The problem we're having is that irresponsible people don't want regulations that will prevent them from owning guns, and there are too damn many irresponsible people.

No argument here. The American system overlooks responsibility until the court docket, and too many of us agree to that prioritization.

Now, the fact is that not many Japanese are permitted firearms ownership, and not for proven irresponsibility, but simply for lack of "need". That criterion is not Constitutionally sanctioned here.

I favor a combination of smart guns and stronger backgrounds checks backing that up. It would conserve the right while at the same time do more to protect society at large.