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Oh, not so sure about that. implementing very heavy yearly taxes on certain type weapons along with an even heavier fine if the taxes are not paid might solve a lot of the problem. Or substitute insurance for taxes. Either of those possibilities would make owning say an AR-15 a very expensive hobby.
Your gubmint doesn't even know where most guns are, especially the one that scares you the most, so how are you going to tax what you don't know exists?
There were lots of affordable surplus semi automatic rifles and pistols available after World War 2 and Korea and Viet Namh. But mass shootings were relatively few, less than that actually. So if the guns were available then, what's changed? Are we over medicated? Maybe our schools aren't doing their jobs anymore. Maybe families have failed. Could it be violent TV and movies? War pictures, crime dramas and westerns have been around forever, so it probably isn't that. Could it be violent music? Maybe its that not enough people are going to church? Society is ill and gun violence is a symptom.
But we keep hitting the same stumbling block and that is that the government just is not able to fix it. At best they're well meaning idiots who would make it worse or try to fix the wrong thing, at worst they are probably actively trying to make things worse for their own ends. Forget that they won't do anything, be glad they don't.
They are semi automatic. I don't know your definition but a semi auto is simply a weapon that you can fire multiple times without reloading by pulling the trigger each time.
They are not classified as semi-auto, because the concept it not same. A semi-auto uses the recoil to eject the casing, and load the new round into the chamber.
I know how a semi works.....some don't use "recoil" BTW, they use the spent gasses to drive the bolt.
But how it's classified is irrelevant.
How it works......1 shot per trigger pull...... isn't.
Oh, not so sure about that. implementing very heavy yearly taxes on certain type weapons along with an even heavier fine if the taxes are not paid might solve a lot of the problem. Or substitute insurance for taxes. Either of those possibilities would make owning say an AR-15 a very expensive hobby.
The Supreme court has already ruled that scemes like this are unconstitutional, You don't get to do an end run around the Bill of Rights.
Does the pole tax sound familiar.
The nation would be better off if we could have a reasonable discussion about the issue, and it seems to me that the OP is trying to initiate one.
Suggesting banning half the guns currently already owned by Americans by what type of gun they are isn't what most people would define as "reasonable".
Are you actually telling me that you think that the right to shoot gun is equivalent to the right to speak?????
What? What do you think? It's the Bill of Rights. So yeah..... the right to own a gun is a right just like religious expression, free speech, free press and peaceful assembly and the right to petition. Of course they're equivalent.
The 2nd amendment says that all have the right to "keep and bear arms". It does not say that everyone has the right to own police or military style arms.
IMO all of the common "hunting" weapons meet the intent of the 2nd amendment. Military/police style weapons do not. They are all designed for maximum kill rate of any human target. THAT is not the intent of the 2nd amendment. Under today's thinking machine , and/or fully automatic, weapons are illegal to for private citizens to own without a special permit with good reason. So it should be with any other military/police designed weapons.
Congress could, and should, outlaw all military/police style for citizen's private ownership. Owing common "hunting" weapons is more than enough for any person of sane and sound mind to own for their personal use.
No. The 2nd amendment says NOTHING about hunting. It specifically addresses militias and security of a free state:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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