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2015-10-01 -Land of the Free

I Know How America Should Implement Gun Control

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Posted by badanov 2015-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Licensing, to be renewed every five years with full background checks and mental health screenings, is the first step. Adding a checkbox to a driver's license and another form would make this easy to implement. My driver's license tells folks that I am a donor; it could very easily also indicate whether or not I am a gun owner or authorized to carry concealed firearms.

Licensing [and fees] only apply to honest people. Believe me, criminals don't bother with license applications and registrations. Wrong population being targeted again.

It's not about guns, it's about collecting fees and control. See 'Planned Parenthood' for further details.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-01 04:33|| 2015-10-01 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 As an American who remembers the days before all the clamor for gun control by the left, I recall a country that was much safer. What's different? For one, there was not the gang activity in the country that there now is. Two, the culture was different. What does that mean? There was not the road rage that escalated to shooting. People did not seem to be wound as tight as now. There was not the ubiquitous graphic killing and violence that we now have on TV and in the movies. Moreover, music did not have a violent element in it. Three, there was not the disrespect for law and order that comes from on high down to the street level. Four, people seemed to be much better trained and had a healthy respect for firearms. Schools even had rifle clubs where firearm safety and shooting skills were taught. Five, young men were required to serve in the military. Here, there was a certain amount of socialization, growing up, discipline and respect for authority that came about during this period. Also, young men had an investment in the country and developed a patriotism about the country. They also learned firearm safety and proficiency. Six, respect for life has been diminished in the country for some of the reasons mentions mentioned above. We have thrown the baby out with the bath water with regards to an elementary sense of morality. Abortions are now widespread and have demeaned the value of life. The atheists have removed any mention of God in public life. We no longer say the Lord's prayer in school or the Pledge of Allegiance to the country. I could go on and on, e.g. we have allowed sanctuary cities for illegals, we don't require the single language of English which tends to tribalize us and make the U.S. less "united," and the government has become a weapon to be used against the people of the U.S.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-10-01 08:45|| 2015-10-01 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Two, the culture was different.

Before the effects of the 'Great Society' and loads of 'free stuff' to attract ballot box stuffers to the urban areas giving cover to outright theft and stealing made legal by having political 'hit' men do the job for you. When you toss aside a few thousand years of societal evolution for hip, urban, modern 'solutions', you end up strip mining and clear cutting the cultural environment. However, it keeps you in power in the short run. Then it becomes an never ending spiral of more control, more power, more authority to keep those hands on the ever diminishing resources, not to mentions one's stock of self importance and grandeur.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-01 09:27|| 2015-10-01 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 When will the NRA admit that the policies and laws they drive are deadly? When can we work together to adopt smart, principled solutions to the gun violence facing our country?

As a life member of the NRA, I can tell you the NRA is not the problem. They support and defend the 2nd Amendment and promote gun safety.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-10-01 09:54|| 2015-10-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Big GIVERment funds most rights and some made up rights (legal representation, housing, abortion...) but never the right to own a weapon. We require education attendance and vaccines and we should require gun ownership; and if you cannot afford one we should provide one.

Posted by Airandee 2015-10-01 11:32|| 2015-10-01 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 ..the Swiss system.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-01 11:44|| 2015-10-01 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Not a single regulation the author proposes would have prevented the cited event. Moreover, the effects of such laws are impossible to quantify. And the "if it saves a single life it's worth it" argument is juvenile logic at best.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-10-01 12:18|| 2015-10-01 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 I know how America should implement gun control, too.

Sponsor shooting lessons for every law-abiding citizen so they'll be sure to have good control of their guns if they need to use them against NON-law-abiding "citizens" (who don't give a rat's ass about laws).

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2015-10-01 13:40|| 2015-10-01 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 It's called the Shooting Range. That's where proper gun control is handled.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2015-10-01 14:22|| 2015-10-01 14:22|| Front Page Top

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