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Much easier to screen potential gun owners for mental illness.
LOL we already have people screened for mental health issues. The work is already done... Prevent them from buying, receiving or using a gun.
In short you prefer to punish all gun owners because you disagree with gun ownership. You make my point about people who believe in either or decision making.
A country with absolutely no gun laws! Look and see how it is working out for them!
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The country is leaderless, a machine-gun the only respected authority, and the capital, Mogadishu, is in complete disorder.
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Weapons are freely available. Each town has its own gun market where anyone with $200 (£110) can buy an AK47. "There are no laws," says Abdi Nasser, a driver. "We are in a country where no one can control anyone else. People here fight every hour, it's a regular thing."
Nothing will stop all shootings. (Yet nothing will stop all drunk driving and we spend billions on patrolling, court and incarceration.)
My "common sense proposal" is:
1. Decrease the AMOUNT of guns you are allowed to own. 1 seems enough to cover your second ammendment right. Or 2 since "arms" is plural. And 5 seems like way more than enough- one for each hand, sock and a holster. Also covers more types for dif purposes, target practice, protection, hunting, etc.
The less guns there are, the less likely to fall into the wrong hands. Someone is not going to give another person their ONLY gun. Now, people can do so with no worries. Just sell yours to a criminal, report it stolen and buy another. Or ten more.
"Common sense " tells me that NO ONE NEED 13 guns., nor do I interpret the constitution as granting this right in the phrase "bear arms."
2. Penalties for those who 'lose a gun" to prevent the above from happening. Is it really so much to ask to keep your gun with you OR hide it more responsible in your home?
3. Immediate disciplinary action for those who F up the background process. Take a look at the F ups here by FBI EVEN! Scary to say the least.
4. If a gun is stolen from you and used in a homicide, you should at least be charged with a midemeanor. Including parents who's kids rake their weapons a la Adam Lazer. This is more incentive to be a "responsible gun owner."
5. If a minor finds your gun and brings to 'show and tell" or shows off to friends, mandatory sentence for endangering a minor.
6. I am not for a blanket statement of "all mentally ill" or "all convicted criminals" should not own guns. I would like to keep them out of the hands of the following: people who have command hallucinations, past or present suicide attempts, low IQ, (autism?).
As for criminal convictions, these things should automatically screen you out: owning/posessing an an unlicensed firearm, and crime of violence or intimidation, arson, burgalary, and most sex offenses. I do not think posessing small amounts of narcotics, speeding, etc, should be a factor.
More later. I love fwd to coming back and seeing "the usual suspects" totally ignore this post!
When Adam Lanza shot 26 people in Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, police say he largely relied on a Bushmaster AR-15 "assault-type weapon," a semiautomatic rifle that could rapidly fire multiple high-velocity rounds. He was also equipped with magazines that held 30 bullets each.
Nothing will stop all shootings. (Yet nothing will stop all drunk driving and we spend billions on patrolling, court and incarceration.)
My "common sense proposal" is:
1. Decrease the AMOUNT of guns you are allowed to own. 1 seems enough to cover your second ammendment right. Or 2 since "arms" is plural. And 5 seems like way more than enough- one for each hand, sock and a holster. Also covers more types for dif purposes, target practice, protection, hunting, etc.
The less guns there are, the less likely to fall into the wrong hands. Someone is not going to give another person their ONLY gun. Now, people can do so with no worries. Just sell yours to a criminal, report it stolen and buy another. Or ten more.
"Common sense " tells me that NO ONE NEED 13 guns., nor do I interpret the constitution as granting this right in the phrase "bear arms."
2. Penalties for those who 'lose a gun" to prevent the above from happening. Is it really so much to ask to keep your gun with you OR hide it more responsible in your home?
3. Immediate disciplinary action for those who F up the background process. Take a look at the F ups here by FBI EVEN! Scary to say the least.
4. If a gun is stolen from you and used in a homicide, you should at least be charged with a midemeanor. Including parents who's kids rake their weapons a la Adam Lazer. This is more incentive to be a "responsible gun owner."
5. If a minor finds your gun and brings to 'show and tell" or shows off to friends, mandatory sentence for endangering a minor.
6. I am not for a blanket statement of "all mentally ill" or "all convicted criminals" should not own guns. I would like to keep them out of the hands of the following: people who have command hallucinations, past or present suicide attempts, low IQ, (autism?).
As for criminal convictions, these things should automatically screen you out: owning/posessing an an unlicensed firearm, and crime of violence or intimidation, arson, burgalary, and most sex offenses. I do not think posessing small amounts of narcotics, speeding, etc, should be a factor.
More later. I love fwd to coming back and seeing "the usual suspects" totally ignore this post!
You wouldn't recognize common sense if it walked up and blew in your ear. You are very good at displaying abject ignorance on almost every subject.
You wouldn't recognize common sense if it walked up and blew in your ear. You are very good at displaying abject ignorance on almost every subject.
I would say that poster will get on the nerves of every idiot who doesn't have a clue about common sense.
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