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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, I've had it with you crazies. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)What do you consider sensible gun control measures? Recent shooters have gotten at least one weapon legally and passed a background check. You can buy ten guns tomorrow and 5 years later use one of them.
We keep hearing we need more and more laws when we have over 99 percent who already comply with the laws we have. If the main stretch of violence is by gangs, put more money into prosecuting them. If they are alcohol related (as much violence is) that is another issue.
I have worked a gun show before and the people buying were serious collectors and weekend sport shooters, hunters, and the like (the company I was with didn't sell guns, we sold reloading equipment). The guns I see these days on the streets here locally come from druggies who steal them (as well as tv's, etc) for drug money or others sell/trade them for drugs (and if you think they will run a background check...well, they won't).
The people using the guns won't be obeying any laws anyway, and we have a ton of them on the books already.
Even IF we forced citizens to check with the federal government before selling something to another citizen it still won't reduce those sales as people needing money will just sell them to someone else as a middle man (think drugs here, people buy, sell, smoke pot all the time even though they are breaking the law - you think the avg person is going to really go through the effort? Or are we just making more criminals? What will the punishment be if my dad dies and leaves me his gun and I sell/give it to my brother-in-law who already owns quite a few, which is probably what I do? If I know someone quite well I still have to check with big brother first and pay for a check on them? I don't think most people will.)