Nothing is going to change. Americans love their guns more than they love people and after Sandy Hook we decided that killing over 20 children was acceptable and not outrageous enough to make reasonable restrictions on guns. This is America, a country that has been around for 200 years, a superpower, a 1st world nation, and one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and we refuse to protect our own people. We respect guns more than we respect the lives of people.
What specific gun control measures would you propose and how would they directly and effectively make society safer?
Absolutely get rid of all AR-15′s and the like.
Intense background and criminal background checks and anything violent automatically disqualifies you.
Make getting a gun/gun permit more like getting a driver’s license:
permit to learn
includes an exam with 18 or more questions on the policies, laws, and etc of guns and gun ownership
if you get more than 8 questions incorrect you must retake it.
30 hours of practical experience at a gun range with a licensed teacher
Must take a 5 hour class on the dangers of guns and how to use them safely which will then yield you a certificate that grants you to take the practical exam and lasts for one year. If you don’t gain the license within the allotted year you must retake the class.
A practical exam with a licensed instructor who will grade you on various skills. If you pass you may be granted a permit on the weapon of your choice, the exams may differ on the type of firearm you want.
Follow the Japanese model where you must have two gun safes in different areas of the house, one to store the gun and one to store the bullets and you must provide the police with information on where those safes are.
No concealed carry and only handguns may be allowed to be out in public.
If transporting a weapon, it must be in the trunk of the vehicle, in a bag or some other case, safety on and unloaded and may not leave the vehicle until you are at the destination.
If you’re a hunter or some other gun hobbyist that requires a functional weapon other than a handgun then the gun must stay on the premises, whether that is a gun range or the Fish and Wildlife facility.
If you live in a rural area where police (and people, for that matter) are few and far between, something akin to a deer hunting rifle should provide plenty of protection from predators and poachers, you still have to follow the aforementioned steps.
This doesn’t cover everything but I think it’s a good place to start.
Can you show me evidence that this would directly and effectively create a safer society?
I have never laughed so hard at a gun law post. Like seriously, the evidence is in fucking reality. The proposed restrictions are just fucking logic.
Imagine, guns are illegal, someone breaks into your house with a gun, they’re a criminal so they don’t care that they’re not allowed to have a gun. They shoot you and your entire family because as a law abiding citizen you don’t have a gun to defend yourself. Sounds like a good idea, huh?
I grab my 500 dollar short sword and kill the fucker with that. Guns are shit in CQC.
Also! If you own a gun, you are more likely to be shot with it!
ALSO! Unless you keep your gun loaded and ON YOUR PERSON AT ALL TIMES, and not with your gun safely unloaded and locked up in your gun safe, you’re still likely to get shot by your hypothetical home invader.
Oddly, I am American and do not own a gun. I also recognize that I neither NEED a gun, nor do I know how to use one safely, so I sure as shit should not HAVE a gun.
If guns are illegal, there are fewer of them to be bought, and ammunition is far more difficult to obtain, and most criminals who are going to randomly break into a house aren’t going to have the resources to acquire both.
And you’re assuming that the people inside this theoretical house don’t know how to use at least something in their house as a weapon that isn’t a gun. Which is not a terribly good attitude to have. Everything can be a weapon, if you have the right mind set.
So you know, yeah, making guns illegal sounds like an excellent idea.
Like, shit, dude, I know a half-dozen ways to kill someone on purpose with the little kitchen knife in my drawer, and a solid baker’s dozen ways that I could manage it accidentally, and as a result I’m careful as shit. And that’s something with real actual applications beyond killing things, that’s a cooking implement and I’m careful as shit.
The thing I’ve always kept in mind is this: a gun has no other uses. A gun exists to kill things, that is why you’re taught to never, ever point a gun at something you don’t intend to shoot, whether it’s loaded or not (and yes, I do know how to use a gun, I have training). A gun exists solely to kill. Even if you’re using a gun to protect yourself, you’re protecting yourself with lethal force.
So…uh, yeah, I wouldn’t be too upset about at least something to limit the availability of a gun.
Hours after today’s massacre in Oregon, President Obama took the podium for the 15th time after a mass shooting. Sounding stern and appearing frustrated, Obama challenged Americans to respond more forcefully to this shooting. His full, impassioned statement is one every American needs to hear.
