I think I have mentioned that the point is getting guns out of people who shouldn't have them: mentally-ill people with records of violence; criminals with records of violence; people who have public records of threatening others, like some people here on Jazzfanz. Certainly assault weapons should not be owned by civilians. I even think that some in law enforcement should not carry a weapon; some of those individuals would be former soldiers who might be suffering PTSD. A lot of former servicemen go into law enforcement; they should be examined for PTSD and if they are suffering from it, then they should be given office jobs or social service work that does not require the use of a weapon. In the UK many law enforcement officers do not carry weapons and as a result only about 3 persons per year in a population of 60 million suffer death by gun fire from police. In the U.S. it's more than 1,000. In fact, in the UK only about 50 persons suffer death from fire arms per year -- that's because they have strict gun control. Same thing in Australia where they put in place strict gun control after some mass murders in the 1990s -- deaths went way down. Why are you attacking me because I made a minor error on automatic and semi-automatic weapons. Ridiculous. That is not the point in any case. I made my point earlier. The ****n NRA is a lobbyist for gun manufacturers who only care about making money and not how many people get killed and they pay off legislators to prevent laws that will control the sale of gun and put a dent in their profits. That's the ****ing point and there is no other. The second amendment is archaic and should be removed from the Constitution.
You provided nothing earlier. You slammed your hands on a keyboard a bunch of times and pretended it had value. It didn’t.
Here, you are actually starting to provide some meat. Finally
You want, I think, a full assault weapons ban, tougher requirements to become a police officer, and a total repeal of the second amendment. Is that correct?
Few points. In America we don’t assign people jobs. They can have any job they can get. If vets don’t want social service jobs they don’t have to. It seemed that you stated we should just place them in those jobs. But that’s a side tangent we can ignore.
Gun confiscation, is that part of your plan for a repeal of the 2nd amendment? Or just a gradual drawdown through no more sales and removing any gun owned by someone who commits any crime.
You also talk about records of violence and threatening speech. Is there a cut off? Like if some dude gets in a fist fight do we take his guns?
Basically you just want no firearms, correct?
I’ll agree with what I think/hope your broader point is about the NRA. They suck and lobbying, not just them, should be dramatically restricted.
Also, again I’m expanding under a shaky assumption that we agree. Tying medical records to background checks and jobs that require the use of a firearm.