I’m not in favor of abolishing any rights accorded to the people by the Constitution.
If anything, I feel like we should have more rights and that the government itself should have fewer rights.
That being said, I also believe that we should open the doors and allow more people to have guns, but we should also attach educational requirements, location requirements, insurance requirements, and third-party checks on who has what gun when because, as you know the unbelievable spate of school shootings has shown, irresponsible gun ownership is one of the primary causes of death in what should be the richest and safest country in the world.
Implementing these checks would not infringe upon the rights of gun owners, it would expand them, it would allow bump stocks, silencers, fully automatic machine guns, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, grenades themselves, landmines, tanks, surface-to-air missiles…
I literally could not give the first fuck over who has what weaponry as long as there is a reasonable, sane, and balanced check on how that weaponry can be used, and who has oversight on it.
The bigger issue is that we have irresponsible gun ownership and because of one clause in the Bill of Rights and how it is interpreted, these continued escalations of murders and travesties are happening so often that a school shooting is barely even front page news at this point.
That is incredibly terrifying, and sad.
We should do something about it because we are a sane society, and one of the best things that we can do about it is to institute licensing, registration, insurance, education, and taking weaponry above the level of self-defense and placing them in places where people can responsibly monitor their access, where they can actually be used and enjoyed for what they are, but they are not casually lying around unguarded by negligent parents and made available to disgruntled teenagers.
location requirements, insurance requirements, and third-party checks on who has what gun when because
This sounds like a privacy dystopia ripe for governmental abuse.
but we should also attach educational requirements
Or just teach this in schools to everyone. We already need to add home-economics back into public schools across the country. Include firearm safety alongside it. And when everyone takes the class, you don’t have to track anyone.
irresponsible gun ownership is one of the primary causes of death in what should be the richest and safest country in the world.
Factually incorrect. Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death. And out of gun deaths, accidents are a minority. The largest cause of gun deaths are suicides, which are best fixed via improving living standards with the methods I’ve already stated.
Your comment is nothing but idealistic, flowery language that doesn’t really say anything. It’s the gun control equivalent of “save the mother and the child” that’s being parroted by the pro-life crowd
I’m not in favor of abolishing any rights accorded to the people by the Constitution.
If anything, I feel like we should have more rights and that the government itself should have fewer rights.
That being said, I also believe that we should open the doors and allow more people to have guns, but we should also attach educational requirements, location requirements, insurance requirements, and third-party checks on who has what gun when because, as you know the unbelievable spate of school shootings has shown, irresponsible gun ownership is one of the primary causes of death in what should be the richest and safest country in the world.
Implementing these checks would not infringe upon the rights of gun owners, it would expand them, it would allow bump stocks, silencers, fully automatic machine guns, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, grenades themselves, landmines, tanks, surface-to-air missiles…
I literally could not give the first fuck over who has what weaponry as long as there is a reasonable, sane, and balanced check on how that weaponry can be used, and who has oversight on it.
The bigger issue is that we have irresponsible gun ownership and because of one clause in the Bill of Rights and how it is interpreted, these continued escalations of murders and travesties are happening so often that a school shooting is barely even front page news at this point.
That is incredibly terrifying, and sad.
We should do something about it because we are a sane society, and one of the best things that we can do about it is to institute licensing, registration, insurance, education, and taking weaponry above the level of self-defense and placing them in places where people can responsibly monitor their access, where they can actually be used and enjoyed for what they are, but they are not casually lying around unguarded by negligent parents and made available to disgruntled teenagers.
This sounds like a privacy dystopia ripe for governmental abuse.
Or just teach this in schools to everyone. We already need to add home-economics back into public schools across the country. Include firearm safety alongside it. And when everyone takes the class, you don’t have to track anyone.
Factually incorrect. Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death. And out of gun deaths, accidents are a minority. The largest cause of gun deaths are suicides, which are best fixed via improving living standards with the methods I’ve already stated.
Your comment is nothing but idealistic, flowery language that doesn’t really say anything. It’s the gun control equivalent of “save the mother and the child” that’s being parroted by the pro-life crowd