Why are you for more strict gun control laws?

[Anonymous]

[Aerissa_Jade]

I'm for revoking 90% of current gun laws and putting in some reasonable ones that they actually enforce.

Things such as gun safety should be taught in public school, like it used to be before I was born. I hear the stories about how my dad and others had guns in their lockers and on racks in their trucks and no one ever shot anyone else.

Kids were taught to respect guns and how to use them, how to clean them, etc... and to understand that they are a tool and a weapon.

These days adults are buying guns and have zero clue how to do any of that, which had that been taught they'd be fine.

Doesn't have to be a required class but an elective.

The left has made it so people see gun and freak out.

I'm actually for convicts having their rights restored AFTER they are done with parole, probation and done their time. If people have issues with that, then make it so someone has a 20+ year parole.

As once someone is done with their time their rights should be restored, nothing in the constitution says criminals don't get their rights.

No taxes on guns, even a background check should be free if required. No issues with that, I have a issue with the FEE they require on every gun purchase.

Private sells, fine... have a website someone can put someone else's info in and 20 seconds later it comes back as a yes or no. They should spend money to update and speed up the background check database... not try to pass a law to increase the time from 3 days to 10 days, that is a stupid idea.

So yeah in some aspects I want more but not until we revoke a lot of the useless garbage we have right now.

[Wavvygurl]

Um. So that unstable people have to jump through many hoops at different angles and heights to get their hands on fatal machinery, thus hopefully causing them to give up or get caught before they cause tragedy. If you’re a stable person, then a couple of hoops to leap through literally isn’t a big deal if you care about the lives of innocent children, adults, and the elderly. My personal opinion.

[Texaskid1]

Guns are way too easy for people to get and we have a lot of guns and a lot of frustrated , crazy people in the US. This is a bad combination.

The second amendment is not going away and the NRA has a tight grip on politicians. Most Americans - I think - are for some form of gun control be them right or left leaning. Yet the media does the usual of dividing this into simplistic black and white terms ; conservatives are gun crazy nuts that want a gun free for all and liberals want to eliminate the second amendment is it's totality. I think most Americans can agree that we need some form of control. Not everybody should have guns. I would say the following:

1. National gun register for all private gun ownership including guns bought and sold at gun shows.

2. A required training course in each state that informs people how to use their selected firearm, how to maintain it, what are the specific laws regarding fire arms in your state and at the federal level , what exactly are self defense laws and when can they apply ( also when does self defense become assault or even murder) . There should be both a written and practice exam to get your license.

3. A required psychological evaluation for each applicant. No exceptions.

4. A required criminal background check ( and having a criminal background would not be an automatic disqualification. It would be on a case by case basis).

5. If a person is denied a gun they have the right to ask why and file for an appeal.

Of course , this is not an extensive list but I think it is a good start.

[ChrisMaster69]

I think part of the failure is this ‘strict gun control laws’ thing.

There does need to be a culture change in the US regarding firearms.

it really needs removed from politics and dare I say sensible conversations had.

I can see the need for say a farmer in Texas, or a person into target shooting having AR-15 or similar, but not a guy in an apartment block in some big city such as New York, when it just sits there.

news over here reported a shooting where a bystander actually shot and killed a gunman, excellent, really good, apart from the shooter had already killed two people.

There is a huge amount of paranoia if the reason a person carries / owns a firearm is to protect themselves from the government. That means there is zero trust in voting or ‘democracy’

if a government went batshit crazy and started enforcing draconian laws where people in that state had not voted for, then surely strikes etc would work far quicker than shooting people.

[razelove]

I'm not, there are more guns than people in America, less than 1% of Americans are in law enforcement, and 7% current or former military. You can't mobilize heavily armed civilians, but on the same token you don't want to unite them to become an unstoppable force or immovable object.

If gun control laws became more strict, nitric acid, cotton, CNC routers, and 3d printers would be sold more, as guns and ammo would simply be manufactured with a higher price because they're illegal. Think the price of cocaine in the US vs. Mexico vs. Central America. Anyway, if anything it would make a rush on weapons, and completely eliminate many tools of modern forensics. No trace on where it was bought, who manufactured it, or what ammo if all the above are homemade.

The other option would be to forsake guns in a large part, and instead focus on electromagnetic arms, the most effective of which is using a coil gun to fire mortars. So small arms to support mobile teams of indirect fire that's absolutely devastating, and only requires copper wire, capacitors, batteries, and a PIC for each unit.

[MuddyMole]

They need to be *very* strict (a near blanket ban), and they need to be very strictly enforced, with severe penalties for those who break them. And of course, the US needs to invest heavily in tackling the root causes of gun violence - primarily poverty and lack of social mobility, but also mental illness.

Half-arsing it, or trying to do it incrementally, and having laws that are only moderately strict, or vary from one state/city to another, is not going to help at all. If anything, it's probably counter-productive, and it gives the gun nuts ammunition (pardon the pun) to use when arguing against meaningful gun control - they can just say "we tried gun control, and it didn't work, so there's no point introducing more of it".

[Chazmatazz269]

I’m generally not. I’d like to see existing laws better enforced in earnest, and i’d like to see major improvements to how we recognize and treat mental illness in the US. Given those to general conditions, if we continue to see escalating gun violence, i wouldn’t be opposed to more thorough background checks, including compulsory psychological examination to buy firearms and ammunition along with ongoing examinations in order to keep them. I’m not afraid of 100% registration either. But i really don’t think all that would be necessary. If we start enforcing existing laws and take mental illness seriously for a change, i think we’ll see major improvements.

[SaoirseS]

I'm not for "more strict" gun control laws. I'm for reasonable regulation that is effective. The pro-gun and anti-gun crowds have one thing in common: they don't want guns in the hands of criminals or the mentally unstable. If we take politics out of the question, we might actually accomplish something.

[Bee-Hatch]

Oh like most European countries here in the UK we have sensible gun laws that restrict access to guns, require police checks, and if there's uncertainty about a person, their mental health or other factors that would make them unsuitable to own fire arms, theyre simply not allowed. We don't have daily mass shootings, mentally unstable people gunning strangers down in the street. So there's no current need to change things. The laws work.

[Anthony20108]

i feel like people often think that we would be safer if less people have guns, but that is not entirely true for instance if we ever lived under a totalitarian style government our people could not revolt and fight for our freedom, we could not protect our selves from robbers or criminals who are going to get guns illegally anyways, it's just not advisable to make it near impossible to obtain guns, however it is good to restrict them to mentally ill people and perhaps younger people to make sure that they do not hurt anyone.

[ShadezMcgee]

I am not for it. Major cities that already have them show they don't do jack in terms of what they were in place to do.

@SaoirseS put it well and I would agree with her in this regard. One thing I am hesitant is giving the left any form of leverage because they will take the inch they are given and turn it into a mile.

[NamerOfStars]

Because recent events have shown that the population as a whole is VERY vulnerable to mass manipulation (and, frankly, hysteria), and so, much as I dislike it, we're going to need a better-armed populace. A sudden mass increase in guns and ammo WITHOUT accompanying horror (which is how I'd like it) is going to require making sure that angry, drugged-out lunatics aren't among the newly armed.

[WhiteSteve]

I just don’t want guns around me in my life for any reason. It’s becoming obvious that I can’t accomplish that in my homeland, so I guess I need to start seeking out a new homeland. Just way too much gun violence, we just don’t have decent citizens here, and even the supposed “good guys” seem to be itching to kill someone. This country is absolutely fucking crazy, and I’m realizing I just don’t want to be here anymore. I don’t feel safe here.

[Wade12345]

I want anything more than a six round revolver to be banned for private citizens, while police would be allowed to have 12 round clips.

I'm tired of mass shootings and tired of republicans making excuses to keep a bad and archaic law in place.

[Lliam]

I'm not. Some anti-gun laws are not only absurd but counterproductive. I think legal restrictions on law abiding citizens should be relaxed.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and deter violent crime.

[blissinanarchy1]

Open carry is just ridiculous from a tactical point of view. It’s not a deterrent, it makes you a target. You ain’t John wick, no training in the world will make you survive a complete and utter random giving no warning just shooting you in the back of your head for your gun

[Hogoblin_of_Venice]

long time ago 10 or so guys with box cutters wrecked up some planes, knocked a couple buildings down and killed 3000 or so people. Not one gun involved.

not very long ago politicians held back police while rioters burned looted and murdered. Theyll do it again.

Have you have you ever noticed that no 1 shoots up a police stations? A guy tried once but he didn't make it very far. Why do you think that is?

[worldscolide]

Same reason the left is against free speech. They want a disarmed, controllable society so that they can take away everyone's rights without a fight.

[_Just_A_girl_]

I thought of something recently.. it's like the gun owners are accomplises to murder in a way, since they are selling murder weapons or weapons used for attempted murder ( those using to protect their 🏠).

[NathanDavis]

I would be for better... not more, we don't need more gun laws if they are going to be lazy, vague and plain wrong gun laws

[slatyb]

So that we won’t continue to have angry white men shooting gatherings of people with weapons with high firing rates. This only happens in the US.

[Smashingdoozy]

Because the amount of mass shootings we have aren't going to lessen any other way.

[Subarugirl]

Yes I think that all firearms should be registered specifically in regards to private sales. Similarly to how vehicles have to be registered when bought.

[Aerissa_Jade]

Vehicles don't actually need to be registered, unless you plan on driving them on public property. I've owned cars before, never registered, never drove on public property. Nice thing about living rural with huge swaths of private property with dirt roads through them all, its all private.

[Deathraider]

Because it’s been proven to lessen shooting in countries that implemented such laws.