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I am not saying I support any of these, but I want to know what you guys think of these proposals.
Proposal A - Treat guns like cars. You want to own a weapon, you need a license first and foremost. You then need to get your gun/s registered and renewed on a yearly basis.
Proposal B - Treat gun ownership like the drinking age or the ability to rent a car. Make the age to own a gun 21 years old or 25 years old. If an 18 year old, wants to go shooting, he or she needs to bring a parent or guardian or somebody of legal age.
Proposal C - Put a limit on the number of bullets a gun can fire. Gun manufacturers cannot sell guns in the U.S, if they surpass the legal amount.
Proposal D - Require all gun owners to take a psychological test every year. If you fail, you lose your guns.
Proposal E - Require all school security guards to carry around bean bag guns.
In my opinion, I could support a melding of A and B.
I think D is not a good idea at all. Well, maybe not a good idea at all. I see huge difficulty with the whole notion of some nationwide shrink test to see if folks are sane and rational enough to own a gun. OK But who is going to design the test? Who is going to administer the test? What sort of criteria would disqualify a person?
With E, yeah, I could foresee Resource Officers abusing the carrying of bean bag guns. Besides what is the point of bean bag guns up against AR's or AK's or shotguns or pistols?
I can't get behind C at all.
Hey I know, why not match guns back to what was state of the art weaponry at the time the 2nd Amendment was ratified, December 16, 1791.
Smooth bore flintlock muskets and smooth bore flintlock pistols.
That would certainly reduce the number of folks killed in any mass shooting incident.
It wouldn't stop shootings.
It might make folks like the El Paso shooter resort to more effective means of killing large numbers at one time. Like IED's. Car bombs, truck bombs, or just using cars or trucks to smash through crowds of people.
Interesting discussion though, thought provoking.
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