pbearperry wrote:
Is it really?You guys lost your freedoms to own most guns and now you want us to.No thanks.In 1996 newly elected Prime Minister John Howard of Australia pushed for stricter gun control. That year the Australian Parliament passed the National Firearms Agreement which banned the private ownership of all semiautomatic rifles and semiautomatic and pump action shotguns. The new law also established more restrictions in the licensing of other firearms.

According to the National Firearms Agreement private citizens were forced to turn over the banned weapons in a government buyback system. Beginning on October 1, 1966 through September 30, 1997, the Australian government spent $500 million in purchasing and destroying more than 631,000 banned guns. Howard and other politicians promised the citizens of Australia that they would be safer now that these horrible weapons had been taken off the streets.

However, that was not the case! Since Australia banned semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pump action shotguns the gun crime rates have skyrocketed throughout the country.
Many former gun owners blame the government and their gun control laws for the increases in crimes. They feel helpless in their own homes, unable to protect themselves. In fact, home invasions were so rare prior to the gun ban that the nation did not even have a legal definition for what a home invasion was.

http://www.worldpublicunion.org/2013-04-05-NEWS-australian-gun-ban-resulted-in-higher-crime-rates.html

Gun control means many different things, almost every country where there is legislation does it differently.

A very good start is:
1. No guns for anyone determined as mentally unstable
2. Snap for anyone ever convicted of a violent crime, backed up with severe mandatory prison time. ( there would need to be an appeal process for people who can show they need and can be trusted with a gun)
3. Anyone who keeps guns in there home are to keep them in a properly secured gun safe when not in use. Penalty for non compliance is confiscation.

I think one of the solutions should be a return to better parents and parental rules around the house. My in=laws had a total of 6 children and a total of 49 grand children, mostly boys, an a couple of son-in-laws. On the back porch were 3 shotguns, 10ga, 12ga, 410ga. Also were two revolvers, 6 shot Colt, a 5 shot HR. All of the guns were loaded all the time, and the rule was simple. NO ONE PICKED UP A GUN unless Granpa was there and he went along to shoot. That started many years ago, all the kids, including the girls learned to shoot fairly well. None of the kids have ever been arrested for any kind of crime that involved a weapon, and all have had weapons since then and are now spending some times with their kids showing them how to shoot. The states should be providing gun ranges the family can use, and insist on safety. I winter in Arizona, and the community I live in has an outdoor range, free to the public, and overseen by responsible adults, all volunteers. It is very popular, especially on weekends.

You will never get the point. There are already 330 state and federal gun laws on the books. The guy that ambushed the firemen in New York was a convicted murderer who should have been in prison. The Sandy Hook shooter killed his mother to get the guns she had locked up. All of the other mass shootings were done by people on some sort of doctor prescribed drug and none of them obtained their weapons in accordance with the law.

What good are any laws if they are not enforced? How many more restrictions are needed on law abiding citizens to force criminals to obey the law?

You might want to rethink that.
Cain clobbered Abel, no gun.
Tribes in Africa and Asia fought over territory, no guns.
The Myan built an empire covering huge areas of Central America, no guns. But they did practice human sacrifice, brain surgery and goldsmithing. No guns.
The Egyptians conquered most of North Africa, no guns. But they did build the pyramids. Among other things.
Gheghis Kahn came close to conquering most of Western Europe... with bows and arrows. No guns.
The American Natives (mistakenly called Indians) managed to war with each other for centuries before Europeans introduced them to guns.
Guns or knives or bows/arrows or other objects do not cause crime.
PEOPLE CAUSE CRIME.
The gun, knife whatever only makes it easier for someone who wants to commit a crime to do so.

However, I suspect history wasn't your best subject in school. I also suspect you never studied logic.
Not trying to be mean, just realistic.
Take care and good luck if you ever meet a knife wielding mugger.

Mary

You might want to rethink that.
Cain clobbered Abel, no gun.
Tribes in Africa and Asia fought over territory, no guns.
The Myan built an empire covering huge areas of Central America, no guns. But they did practice human sacrifice, brain surgery and goldsmithing. No guns.
The Egyptians conquered most of North Africa, no guns. But they did build the pyramids. Among other things.
Gheghis Kahn came close to conquering most of Western Europe... with bows and arrows. No guns.
The American Natives (mistakenly called Indians) managed to war with each other for centuries before Europeans introduced them to guns.
Guns or knives or bows/arrows or other objects do not cause crime.
PEOPLE CAUSE CRIME.
The gun, knife whatever only makes it easier for someone who wants to commit a crime to do so.

However, I suspect history wasn't your best subject in school. I also suspect you never studied logic.
Not trying to be mean, just realistic.
Take care and good luck if you ever meet a knife wielding mugger.

Mary