Eegore wrote on 11/09/18 at 19:44:23:"I know you're astute and you can easily find out what I mean when I say "common sense gun control"."
Actually I can't, I would like actual examples as I have never seen a social problem solved by common sense being used in the methodology without specifics utilized in the implementation of change.
Sadly Eegore, I can't provide you with any examples here in the states because there have been no significant changes to the federal laws.
I can only point to extreme examples like Australia.
My point is that "common sense gun laws" is something is rarely answered with specifics, and when it is, the law already exists.
But not at the federal level. Some examples:
A national Permit to purchase.
Tort reform aimed at unsafe manufacturers.
Federally enforced denial criteria to include violent misdemeanors - closing any local/state loopholes
That's just three simple ones at the federal level that would make great strides.
So more laws, just like any other substance, item, method, action, or version thereof that is legal or illegal is not maintained in a way that results in less abuse by means of law alone.
How by making more gun laws will we get guns out of circulation?
We won't - and that is not the intent. The intent is to make owners and potential owners more accountable for what they have.
How by making more gun laws will we address mental illness?
No, of course not. However putting back the regulation that the trump administration took away (H.J. Res 40) - the regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun - would be a step in the right direction.
How by making more gun laws will we reduce the availability of guns on the street?
By making those who own them, more accountable. Again, I have to ask - how's the current system working?
How by making more gun laws will you protect yourself, or your family from someone with a gun?
Well, I actually do own guns. But to think that I own them for personal protection is kind of absurd. I like to shoot. Just like probably 99% of all gun owners.
I go back to Jim Jefferies - even though he's a comedian, he's got great points about gun ownership.
I mean, are you really that paranoid that you're going to face someone in your own home that wants to kill you? What kind of person are you? Where the hell do you live? In a country of 300 million people, how many are being killed in their homes by guns from a home invasion scenario?
That kind of paranoia is being taught to the rabid "from my cold, dead hands" gun owners. It's complete BS. I'm surprised that someone with your obvious intelligence can't see through that and is swallowing the pablum of the likes of the nra.
And again, I'm not abdicating that we "go get the guns" like Australia, but what we've done so far in this country has done no good, has it?
Just use common sense isn't an answer to that.
No, but common sense gun laws are.
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