Again

[Cinjin]

It's such a nasty quagmire we've created:

Amending our constitution won't work. Even if one was successful at getting rid of our right to bear arms, there's so many guns in this country that all the guns grandfathered in would number in the hundreds of millions. We wouldn't see the effect of such legislation for 200 years, and even then it's likely the USA won't even be around at that point, so it wouldn't do us any damn good.

The next problem is getting rid of legal guns. Whenever you get rid of something legal it creates a black market a hundred times worse than any current black market you could think of ... more so with guns since we have so many readily available here in the States.

Additionally, you'd have a LOT of Americans claiming, "I lost my gun(s)," or "My guns were stolen," as soon as someone from the government came to claim them. You'd end up with a court system in gridlock due to the hundreds of thousands of people who would be putting up a legal fight in court over guns they don't have, or guns they allegedly have, or guns they're allegedly selling, etc. etc.

Requiring gun safes in every home that has a firearm is a step in the right direction, but it would be extremely difficult to enforce, especially where old unregistered guns come into play.

Doing background checks is all well and good, but as we've seen, the issue is not that mentally unstable people are capable of purchasing them, it's that mentally unstable people are capable of acquiring them from irresponsible imbeciles.


All this being said, I think it should be mandatory for our schools to start having emergency shooter drills the same way we have emergency fire drills. Instead of alternate exits, we have our teachers plan for alternate entrances and which end of the building the blasts are coming from. It sucks, but until gun owners decide to give a little, we need to take advantage of the only options we have and have our teachers and principles plan for the worst.


By the way, I own five firearms.