(February 16, 2018 at 5:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(February 16, 2018 at 4:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: That's good. I wish more of your fellow americans would think that way.
And no, I don't think I read it... might have been merged with some other reply from you and this thing didn't tell me about it.
It's all good. To recap it, I think dumb guns should be phased out in favor of smart guns which only fire for the legal owner who must pass background checks for both criminality and mental soundness. It's not a "cure", but I think it addresses several different issues which each go into America's inordinate firearms death rate.
I would add a periodical checkup to maintain the right to own guns.
If you fail those, your weapons are either confiscated or exchanged for their market value.
If you don't show up for the check up, your weapons will be confiscated.
Of course, all this would require funding that's currently not existent.