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No, 26 mostly good ideas. Why not try some of these and see if they help the problem? What do we have to lose?
Not going to happen. Even w/ people that were open to some gun laws, you went and ruined it with covid and other heavy handed attacks on them.
You cannot be trusted.
Ideas to stop these mass shootings and gun violence in general in this country:
1. No assault rifles
2. No semi-automatic machine pistols
3. No foldable stocks
4. No body armor
5. No extended magazines
6. No fully automatic weapons
7. Gun owners must be 21
8. All gun owners must be licensed
9. Licensing to require strong background checks for criminal history or a history of violence or mental issues
10. Licensing to require gun safety and use training and gun law training. To be renewed at regular intervals
11. Red flag laws in place nationally
12. Required reporters (educators, law enforcement, legal, mental and physical health professionals, social workers) are by law required to report any kind of criminal activity, suicide ideation, violent threats or actions to federal gun licensing authorities
13. No private gun sales
14. All guns to be registered
15. All guns in a home with any resident without a license requires those guns to be stored with safes, locks
16. No one under 21 can be licensed
17. No one under 21 can possess a gun on their person, even temporarily, without a licensed gun owner present
18. All guns required active gun use insurance
19. All ammunition sales to be recorded and ammunition sales require proof of gun license and insurance
20. Anyone with a gun in public is required to provide proof of gun license and insurance at any time
21. Making any kind of threat with a gun on your person is a felony, no brandishing required
22. No guns within ½ mile of a school or church
23. Require that any theft of guns be immediately reported
24. National voluntary gun buyback program
25. Any gun used in a crime or found to not be properly licensed and insured is to be taken into law enforcement possession and destroyed as soon as possible
26. Anyone found in possession of a gun in public or in their residence without proper license or insurance will be charged with a crime
You're out of your mind. Number 22 alone would prevent 90% of Americans from owning a gun. And all of your proposals except no. 24 are flagrantly illegal.
All of our natural rights? You cede an inch to the government, they'll go the mile and build a fortress around everything they took along the way.
Our Bill of Rights was written the way it was for a reason. They knew then who the most likely, biggest threat would always and forever be, so they created a bunch of rules to not let them get too powerful or at least too comfy in that power.
Give up your absolute natural right to keep and bear arms, and every other right comes next, only by then, they'll just take it without worrying too much about you fighting back.
While I don't disagree at all with the general sentiment of your post , IMHO the key to stopping tyranny is not allowing the right to bear arms ( which should be allowed irrespective of this issue as well ) but allowing the right of revolution ( https://www.encyclopedia.com/politic...ght-revolution ) which is obviously worth nothing if people don't exercise it when they have to .
After all in spite of widespread civilian firearms ownership in the States , there really haven't been any significant grassroots uprisings against the federal government ( unless you count the Civil War of course ) throughout history , in spite of the fact that the Feds have encroached on the rights of the American people time and time again .
In short the mentality of " the law must be followed because it's the law " is the true Achilles heel of individual liberty Stateside .
Im against all gun laws...but even I know our gun laws are not stopping tyranny in any way! That is laughable actually. Law enforcement, the military, Govt has TOTAL control over us, so what if a percentage of citizens own some firearms? (if they are not willing to use it against the tyrants, or use them in an effort to stop tyranny)...what good is the right to bear arms?
Lots of people claim to be patriotic 2nd Amendment supporters, but in reality, they obey the gun laws to a T, if the govt creates a new gun law, they will comply with that as well!
I got some news for you patriotic types...tyranny is already here and its been successful in many ways. Citizens ALLOWED this to happen, (even though we have the 2nd Amendment), Go figure? Lets see a large group of citizens attempt to 'stop govt tyranny'...The military will make short work of you with your semi autos and hunting rifles! (The military will bring FULL AUTOMATICS, min guns, gatling guns, etc)...guns that citizens are not allowed to possess btw. LOL
Lets see how patriotic people are, when there is a risk of ending up in handcuffs, imprisoned, and loosing their freedom, their jobs, family, friends! Its getting tiresome hearing people talk about defending the 2nd Amendment...we have not defended our rights in the least...EVERY TIME the govt creates a new gun law, or any law for that matter...WE OBEY AND COMPLY 100%.
Ideas to stop these mass shootings and gun violence in general in this country:
1. No assault rifles
2. No semi-automatic machine pistols
3. No foldable stocks
4. No body armor
5. No extended magazines
6. No fully automatic weapons
7. Gun owners must be 21
8. All gun owners must be licensed
9. Licensing to require strong background checks for criminal history or a history of violence or mental issues
10. Licensing to require gun safety and use training and gun law training. To be renewed at regular intervals
11. Red flag laws in place nationally
12. Required reporters (educators, law enforcement, legal, mental and physical health professionals, social workers) are by law required to report any kind of criminal activity, suicide ideation, violent threats or actions to federal gun licensing authorities
13. No private gun sales
14. All guns to be registered
15. All guns in a home with any resident without a license requires those guns to be stored with safes, locks
16. No one under 21 can be licensed
17. No one under 21 can possess a gun on their person, even temporarily, without a licensed gun owner present
18. All guns required active gun use insurance
19. All ammunition sales to be recorded and ammunition sales require proof of gun license and insurance
20. Anyone with a gun in public is required to provide proof of gun license and insurance at any time
21. Making any kind of threat with a gun on your person is a felony, no brandishing required
22. No guns within ½ mile of a school or church
23. Require that any theft of guns be immediately reported
24. National voluntary gun buyback program
25. Any gun used in a crime or found to not be properly licensed and insured is to be taken into law enforcement possession and destroyed as soon as possible
26. Anyone found in possession of a gun in public or in their residence without proper license or insurance will be charged with a crime
NO! You want a civil war, this is how to do it, and YOU are on the losing end!
the wiki article itself says maybe TWO of these guns were produced...this was before interchangeability of parts remember
The point is that the 2nd amendment didn't exclude these types of arms.
Indeed, private citizens owned artillery and battleships.
Implying that the Founders couldn't foresee advances in weapons technology is disingenuous at best because they had seen advances in weaponry of it during and before their lifetimes.
It is illogical to think that they wouldn't assume that it would continue to advance
No such thing as reasonable gun laws, only reasonable mental health laws.
Criminals don't follow laws the prevent them from comitting crime.
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