(August 25, 2013 at 2:46 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: Sorry, I was writing my post while those went up. Although I believe a few of my points still stand.
It's cool. Which points would you like to discuss?
Quote:I, myself, don't believe in banning all guns in America. It can't happen. Hell, we're only one of two countries in the world whose right to bear arms in stoned into our constitution. It could never work. To start, my idea of a working gun legislation is as follows: rigorous background checks, psychological evaluations of not just the person purchasing the gun but also of every person living in the home where the gun will be stored, and a government agent who will check your home to see if it's a proper home for a firearm and that there is no chance of a child or anyone else being able to gain access to the gun, which includes making sure your gun is properly sealed, etc. (I see it similar to an official from an adoption agency making sure the home is a suitable environment for an adopted child).
Bolding is mine so I can say: FUCK THE HELL YES.
Quote:It's a lot, but I think it could have a positive effect. Of course, if a background check bill won't pass, none of my ideas could pass either.
It's a lot, yeah, but we as a nation need to start taking better responsibility of firearms. Before, it wasn't necessary, because a musket or black-powder rifle/pistol took forever to reload and as such didn't pose so much of a thread to large numbers of people. But weapons have evolved. An assault rifle can spit out 500+ rounds per minute, and some can shoot even faster. We have submachine-guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns...the deceptively-named minigun. Weapons have evolved, and so, too, much our right to possess such weaponry. It can still be allowed...but we've gotta start getting sensible about it.
And you know what? I say this knowing full well that such legislation may very well mean having to surrender my own firearms. I'm diagnosed bipolar; apparently such mental conditions are grounds for rejection for permits nowadays. But, it doesn't matter. This is a problem that involves the lives of other people. The fact a nutjob can stroll casually into a school, unchallenged, with an assault rifle and start hosing people down? It's gotta be remedied.
