Shooting Rekindles Issues of Gun Rights and Restrictions

Ok, be specific, what do you want to happen?
How are you going to stop criminals from using guns while protecting legal gun owners rights?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Ok, be specific, what do you want to happen?
How are you going to stop criminals from using guns while protecting legal gun owners rights?

I want a training course and a test, just like to be able to get a drivers license.

You have to wait two weeks after you buy a gun before you can receive it.

You have to renew it every year up to three then it comes every third year with a short renewal course.

No previous criminal activity, within reason, to be able to own a gun.

I'm not set on these I'm just throwing down some suggestions.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

I want a training course and a test, just like to be able to get a drivers license.

You have to wait two weeks after you buy a gun before you can receive it.

You have to renew it every year up to three then it comes every third year with a short renewal course.

No previous criminal activity, within reason, to be able to own a gun.

I'm not set on these I'm just throwing down some suggestions.

Driving a car is a privilege, owning a gun is a Right. Like it or not that is the way the law goes. A waiting period would not be effective in preventing events like that which went on at VT. It was completely pre-meditated. The waiting period would only prevent crimes of passion and in some documented cases have prevented women from protecting themselves from an impending murder by an estranged husband or boy friend. Courses are available, but you can make people take a course for something they have a right to own, however you can do so for privileges. It would be difficult to standardize the testing without making it a joke, pretty much as the driving tests are today. You pretty much have to be an idiot not to be able to pass one.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

...How are you going to stop criminals from using guns while protecting legal gun owners rights?

Personal force fields
Cutting off the trigger finger of anyone who uses a gun illegally
Giant magnets
Chris Rock's "expensive bullets" plan
Employing criminals with more than a "subsistence income" to reduce the motivation to commit crime.
Reduce the wealth gap
Legalize drugs