When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Then, one by one, you put them in prison if they keep being criminals.
You pass Legislation to outlaw guns.
It will take a shift in what the way the Supreme Court views the Second Amendment! How many more mass shootings do you think it will take for the republicans to start to disagree with the NRA?
Already there is NO chance EVER that ordinary citizens will need to assemble to defend this country. That will be anarchy at its finest.
Already there is NOT one citizen that needs a gun to protect the back forty against wild Indians. They’ve already been k**led.
Already there is not ONE citizen that needs to hunt for food. There’s a 7/11 on every corner.
Already you only need a gun to defend your castle if the guy breaking in has a gun too.
The role of the gun in the Wild West is a thing of the past.
“A well regulated m*****a”, is subject to interpretation and interpreted it will be.
How many more children and adults have to die before the Supreme Court reinterprets that clause and declares your guns illegal? Maybe when the kids from Florida have 5 justices sitting on the Supreme Court but it’s coming. Not today and maybe not tomorrow but maybe the day after that, but it IS coming.
I don’t expect the old burned out bulb in your old head to ever turn on, but old woman, we’re into the age of LED’s and many bulbs will burn bright, maybe after you and I are DEAD!!! History will progress without us.
The big question is just whether you were on the sidelines or helped usher in the newer generations!!!
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This is a difficult concept to conprehend if you have a low IQ.
So I’ll start with a VERY easy question.....
If ZERO guns where available to the people in this country, how many guns would be in the hands of bad guys???
In case you’re too dumb to figure it out, the answers is ZERO!
As long as there are guns available to even ONE person the possibility is there for there to be one shooter.
Go ahead now, give me your pro-gun numbskull argument about the 2nd Amendment!!! LoL
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It's not really a case of punishing anyone. Some people may be perfectly capable of driving through a town at 150MPH. But, a lot of people aren't so the law prohibits it for all. The vast majority of gun owners may be perfectly responsible, But there doesn't seem to be any way of telling who is or isn't before an event. We seem to be stuck in a sort of all or nothing attitude. What's needed is some form of middle ground between guns for all and a blanket ban.

My suggestions would be:
Compulsory training and testing before being issued with a license.
Continued training on a regular basis, (I don't know what frequency that should be).
Re-testing every five years
Severe penalties for anyone selling a gun to someone who doesn't have a license with the onus being on the seller to ensure that the gun is registered in the new owners name before handing it over.
Accountability for every round of ammunition purchased.
Gun theft to be treated as a serious crime, (not only in terms of sentencing, but also the effort put into recovering them).
Practice shooting to be restricted to registered firing ranges, (this would aid accoutability of amunition).
Age restriction, (probably 21 but I don't know).

None of the above could be achieved over night, so there would need to be period between announcing these rules and enforcing them in order to give people the oportunity to comply.
There also needs to be some sort of attitude change. In most other countries, if you have a child who's not fitting in well at school, has become something of a recluse with no friends, and seems to be bullied, we tend to encourage extracaricular activities where they can meet new people and make friends. We don't try to cheer them up by buying them a semmi-automatic rifle and encouraging them to take it to their next show and tell.

We do that to some extent. Statistics show that the majority of alcohol caused accidents are caused by drivers with a .2 or higher blood alcohol level. To appease MAD the limit has been lowered to .08. Because some drivers might become inebriated if allowed to drink while driving, non of us can drink while they drive, and neither can their passengers. Seriously, a hot cup of coffee is much more dangerous than a cold beer. We already have laws against driving with a .08 blood level. Have you ever protested these things? We should do the studies and when they are completed and the results are published we should see where we all stand. Minds might be changed from either side.

There will be no really good answers as long as the feds stop any government sponsored research on the subject.
I'm not suggesting research on the effects of the gun laws as they stand, though I wouldn't be opposed to it. There should be a study on school massacres and how to throttle them back. There might also be a study on how to cut down on gun violence in this country and how to either lower it or at least have fewer innocent victims. The NRA shouldn't be part of it and gun manufacturers shouldn't be part of it. Probably gun dealers as well, but gun owners should be welcome, their input is valuable, or at least may be.