(December 15, 2012 at 12:50 pm)Shell B Wrote: We completely agree. I do think it should be a pain in the ass to get a gun, just not impossible. Perhaps forcing gun owners to have the people they live with screened as well? Random gun safety inspections from local law enforcement? There are many ways to make guns safer without eliminating their availability. I don't think it will stop people from killing each other en masse, but it would make sense anyway.
I never lobbied to ban guns. I lobby for increased gun control across the board.
In the US, a person can go across state lines from a restrictive gun control state to one with significantly lessened restrictions, acquire firearms (often without the onus of increased tracking and licensing of the restrictive state) and bring them into the original restrictive states.
We need federal gun control legislation to be increased, with penalties and licenses enforced, as opposed to the hodge-podge solution.
I don't demand individual specifics, only that there be a consistency to gun laws across the nation.
"Free firearm" for purchases, though, probably should be banned -- after all, what pressing need is being served for self-defense or legitimate hunting?
It makes you wonder why we as a nation demand the right to have the ability to kill to the point that you can go to a Walmart or local crabshack and get weapons?
It reeks of a societal addiction to death.
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