• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    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