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Showing Original Post only (View all)You say gun control doesn't work? Fine. Let's ban guns altogether. [View all]
In a post Tuesday, I listed the mass shootings since January 2013 in which at least three people were killed. Its an agonizingly, depressingly long list, and I cited it as the prime reason we need meaningful gun control. The post received the usual blowback from gun owners, most of whom skipped over the scope of gun deaths in this country to look more myopically at last weeks tragic events at Isla Vista (which I mentioned only in passing, seeing this problem as much broader than the most recent headlines).
But there also have been responses from people who share my disgust at the endless gun violence that pervades American culture. A few asked what should be done. My personal preference? Its a decidedly minority viewpoint, but I say, ban them, with a carve-out for hunting weapons.
For example: Hunters could own shotguns (and rifles where state laws allow them for hunting), but they would have to be registered and the owners would have to pass a gun safety course before they could get a hunting license (already a requirement in most, if not all, places). That license would be a prerequisite for registering a hunting weapon. Resale of a weapon should be monitored to preclude passing it along to unqualified people. Ammunition sales would be tracked much like we do sales of pseudoephinedrine (an ingredient in meth).
As for handguns, assault-style weapons, etc., lets have a flat-out ban. Beyond the histrionics of the gun lobby, there is no defensible reason for such weapons to be a part of our culture. They exist for one purpose: to kill. Yes, hobbyists also like to use guns for target shooting and other nonlethal purposes, but its hard to say that desire for sport outweighs the atrocious level of gun-related deaths in this country.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-gun-control-ban-homicides-suicides-20140528-story.html
But there also have been responses from people who share my disgust at the endless gun violence that pervades American culture. A few asked what should be done. My personal preference? Its a decidedly minority viewpoint, but I say, ban them, with a carve-out for hunting weapons.
For example: Hunters could own shotguns (and rifles where state laws allow them for hunting), but they would have to be registered and the owners would have to pass a gun safety course before they could get a hunting license (already a requirement in most, if not all, places). That license would be a prerequisite for registering a hunting weapon. Resale of a weapon should be monitored to preclude passing it along to unqualified people. Ammunition sales would be tracked much like we do sales of pseudoephinedrine (an ingredient in meth).
As for handguns, assault-style weapons, etc., lets have a flat-out ban. Beyond the histrionics of the gun lobby, there is no defensible reason for such weapons to be a part of our culture. They exist for one purpose: to kill. Yes, hobbyists also like to use guns for target shooting and other nonlethal purposes, but its hard to say that desire for sport outweighs the atrocious level of gun-related deaths in this country.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-gun-control-ban-homicides-suicides-20140528-story.html
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You say gun control doesn't work? Fine. Let's ban guns altogether. [View all]
SecularMotion
May 2014
OP
You are confused. I have never discussed trashing this or any other forum on DU...
hlthe2b
May 2014
#32
Don't forget to Bookmark this for the next "Nobody wants to take your guns away" post
DonP
May 2014
#12
In fairness, a bunch of people were injured but not killed by gunfire as well.
AtheistCrusader
May 2014
#24
I am begining to believe that you should be given a taste of your own medicine. n/t
oneshooter
May 2014
#22