Speyside wrote:TG, do you think before pontificate? Your comments are bordering on the theatre of the absurd. Clearly we have no workable answer at present. I ask a legitimate question without any animus. I state that I am willing to listen. I state that I am serious. Then you make a ridiculous assumption. I have no answers to this. I am interested in opinions. Are you capable of s logical discussion? If so then I would like to hear your answer.
I do pontificate. Often. And rarely post-thinking.
But I don't think I did in this thread?
All I said was "enforce our existing laws".
If we can't start there, then don't waste my time making up NEW laws.
Once we do that we can give honest consideration to all viewpoints.
If it's me?
1. gun show loop hole.
2. Minimum age. maybe only for certain gun types or caliber.
3. training to go along with a license for certain gun types.
We already have background checks. Enforce them (see my original comments)
We already have waiting periods, don't we? Isn't the Brady Bill still a thing? Enforce it.
We can't go down the slippery slope of banning the AR-15 because it looks more menacing than other magazine capable semi-automatic rifles.
We can't think that limiting the magazine capacity will do anything. I can't have a 30 round mag? OK. I'll take three of those 10 round mags. Then people will want to ban how many of those you have. or the number of bullets.
And most of this becomes moot once metal 3D printers fall in price.
So let's get back to what we should do now.
Enforce the laws.
Displace the marajuana dealers in our prisons with today's gun violators. Make owning an illegal weapon NOT worth it. Stop punishing the law abiding legal gun owners.
We don't put a breathalizer interlock on YOUR car just because some drunk crashed his own.