(December 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm)Annik Wrote: Then there is the issue of the illegal gun trade, which by-passes all of these safeties. To put it simply: This isn't a simple issue that can be solved by just doing one thing or another. We need to change as a culture before any of these changes would work.
Registration, license marks etched onto every square millimeter of the gun, etc can go a long way towards establishing uniqueness among it.
Uniqueness means one can track who buys what, such that when a gun is used in any crime and is not legally owned, the preceding legal owners can be held accountable for an illegal sale.
True, someone might sand blast off the markings.
This is not a perfect solution, but one of many that you employ, like better healthcare and education, a focus on faster response times for police, teaching people to hide and get out of line of sight of a gun man, etc,.
There will be no perfect solution. Even if guns were to be banned and collected, someone would still attain one.
But that is no excuse to let people who have no business owning guns have an easy route to obtain them.
The route must be very, very arduous to get a gun even for a legal buyer to screen out the mentally ill, the violently unstable and those who have a known proclivity towards violence.
We also should find a way to enforce gun owners lock up their guns from any non-owner.
I might remind people that the Sandy Hook shooter used his mother's guns, which were unsecured.
There must be a way to encourage, enforce and blame people for their unsafe acts that allow criminals to obtain weapons.
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