Judge Judy thinks you should be required to take a psychiatric test before being allowed to own guns....
Agree? Disagree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLblXF9-w0c
Agree? Disagree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLblXF9-w0c
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- Thread starter JimLes
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OK, my bad, I just realized I miswrote the question.
How many people do you think he could have shot WITHOUT a gun?
What is your solution then?
The first thing is to get people to realize that there is a problem. In 2013, the most recent year for which I can easily find statistics, there were 33,169 deaths from firearms in the US (excluding deaths by "legal intervention," IE, cop). Almost 2/3 of those, 21,175, were suicides. The MINORITY were the attention-grabbing mass killings like what happened in Oregon.
Honestly, the first part of a solution would be to get Wayne LaPierre out. He has led the NRA in a disastrous and radical direction since the early 90's, although they have been pretty rough since the mid-late 70's.
As far as safety issues, common sense solutions: A "loaded" flag, so that you know if there is a round chambered. Chamber locks, trigger locks, smart guns. There are many ways to make guns safer AND THE NRA OPPOSES THEM.
Yes, education, but the mandatory education which has been proposed upthread assumes that, A) Everyone wants to learn (and wants their kids to learn) about guns, and B) we live in a fully armed society where we need to learn about guns.
Yes, waiting periods. Especially for handguns, honestly. Again, these are the weapons most commonly used in suicides and "crimes of passion," and, generally, if you can get people to wait 72 hours, they won't go thru with it.
Maybe if the NRA and the gun fondlers would agree to reasonable steps, there wouldn't be need for unreasonable ones.
Well nodoby, not even the NRA, denies there is a problem. THey may disagree on what that problem is but everyone agress. Step 1 is complete.
As for the NRA, they are terrible for gun rights. They are attemting to shut down all dialogue on gun rights v. gun control and it is saddening to infuriating.
I don't think everyone should have a waiting period. But there are some that should. Like those that have been admitted for mental health problems. 72 hours works as it allows time for a more complete search and documentation on if a gun should be sold.
What do you mean by a "loaded flag"? Like a literally flag that the gun is loaded? To me that seems un-necesarily cumbersome and dangerous.
Yes there are step that can, and should, be taken to combat this problem. Some directly involve guns and some do not.
Guns with safties show a red color when the safety is off. When it is on the safety is black.
RandyForRubio
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What would they be? I don't think you've shared them yet.
How do you figure? Everyone admits their is a problem. They may not agree on what that problem is but no one denies there is one.
Do you mean that everyone must agree on what the exact problem is?
NAOS
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I think you can preserve the sporting nature of hunting and remove automatic and semi-automatic weapons from the flow of guns. I come from a family of hunting enthusiasts (I was enrolled in hunters' safety on the first eligible day), and I've never met a passionate, sporting hunter who needed a magazine. Never met one who needed a handgun.
*I'd support halting the manufacture and importation of all automatic and semi-automatic guns.
*I'd support a large, nationwide, taxpayer-funded gun buyback program that paid handsomely for automatic and semi-automatic guns. Program also to be funded with taxes levied at the retail point-of-sale of all guns going forward. EDIT: Ultimately, the gun-buyback prices need to be kept higher than the prices for used guns.
*I'm not sure how much time the watchdogs need to adequately investigate a gun buyer, but I'd support a system that gave them the adequate time.
*I do have discomforts with the State being able to dictate what someone does with their guns once they've purchased them. So, I would not attempt to ban the casual selling of used guns (it'd be ineffective law anyway). But, I would put a system in place where buyers and sellers could officially register the transfer of property if they chose to (since any investigation of a crime committed with a gun is already searchable to the last-known owner if such forensic evidence is found... or at least I think that's the case... and I can image a seller wanting to be free of that).
None of these attempt to criminalize those people who are currently in possession of guns of any type.
(That's a quick sketch)
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