According to a recent study, Support publically of Stricter gun laws is down to 34% down from 56% in 2004.    This means we to inforce stricter gun laws would have to regain the public oppinion.

Secondly, Most Gun law preventions of assault weapons/semi automatic firearms would do almost nothing for public safety outside a few mass killings.   MOst are done with shotguns/pistols, which are single action and used in hunting/sport.  

Thirdly, Canada and a couple other countries have higher, or close to equal guns per capita,  yet their killings per year are in double digits, not thousands.   So obviously we have something pervasive in our culture that is breeding these killings.

your limiting the tool used, while not thinking about the root cause.   Yes guns are the easiest things to kill people with, but with all this anger/hostility supporting the killings your not going to SOLVE them.   Get rid of guns (which would be soooo hard to do on a shear technical aspect).   You would still have people bieng beaten/stabbed/rundown in the street. 

When people have killing to do, the tool is irrelevant aside from tactical.   Like in africa right now, more people are bieng butchered by machete's cause they dont have guns.  

Killings gonna happen we gotta tackle (as the young turks always say) the root of the problem.   Not focus our attention on the stupid TOOL used.

WHY are americans so apt to violent acts?  why are we so much higher in the rate at which we USE guns.

There are countries that have higher or close guns per capita.... lets find out WHAT makes us so different, and instead of blaming the gun,  blame the actual cause.  



and lastly,

Gun control needs to be enforced via strict criteria, not limiting types etc.  THats already limited in most the country, along with # (if you have more than a certain # you have to register as a armory, which requires strict security etc etc).   We need to do Gun barrel fingerprinting, where bullets are kept on catalog on ALL registered weapons, and Bullets are scanned into a database once every 1-5 years on EVERY gun to keep it up to date.   Ownership needs to be Fingerprinted, meaning when you buy a gun from a manufacturer that gun is registered to YOU and you only, if you misplace/lose/loan/haveitst olen you need to within 24hrs be reporting the sale/theft/loss of that Gun to the authorities so that YOUR gun can be updated. 

Guns that are used leave a fingerprint on the bullet, the gun database would have a catalog of EVERY gun barrel legaly purchased (which is how most guns start out) giving the authorities a additional lead to find out where that gun came from.

ALSO if your gun is not Properly secured, and is used in a crime (teen takes the gun n shoots up his classroom etc)  YOU yourself should be held accountable for the incident,  including jail time.

Your son gets a hold of it and blows his head off... YOU Should be going to jail.

your gun should be kept responsibilly, locked, with the key quite seperate. 

you leave your gun laying around and your baby shoots himself.  Guess what, you just commited involuntary manslaughter.

thats the stricter gun laws i can support.

People are gonna find ways to commit mass murder (with a car... with a bomb.... with a stick of dynamite or packed fireworks, or molotov cocktail from the roof of a building onto a crowd bellow)  There are always ways of killing people if one wants too.  What we need to go into and Get under, is the WHY and fix the WHY not the HOW.
the how will always change.  Until you hit on the underlying social issue that is pervassive and CAUSING this violence.

by Ectheleon on 04/09/2009 12:45:18 PM EST