How would you control guns?

How should we regulate guns?


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lifegoesonbrah

Well-Known Member
Background check restrictions- Correct me if I'm wrong, but the recent mass murderers all had clean records and/or stole the guns, would this have prevented anything? If so, who would you prevent from having guns? Would it be felons, people on medications, women, or the dirty Mexicans? Tell me How we should discriminate.

Registration of all weapons - What would this accomplish? How would it be enforced? Who would have access to the listings? why?

Limiting types of weapons that can be owned by citizens - How would this be enforced? Would this be a voluntary turn in of all prohibited weapons or taking by force? How would these weapons be taken? How would we decide which weapons should be allowed and which should not? Should our government give all of the stolen weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels like usual, or should we burn them in a giant fire and sing kumbayah while holding hands?

Limiting magazines - Should we limit the amount of rounds a magazine can hold? How many bullets should we be allowed to fire at once? Should there be a mandatory wait time before we can load the next clip? If so, how long should it be? Should different caliber weapons have different sizes of allowable clips? Should we confiscate all of the oversized clips? How will we get rid of the illegal clips? What should the punishment be for having an oversized clip?

Gun Free Zones - Where should we have these gun free zones? Why? Do gun free zones stop shootings? To make gun free zones effective, do we just need bigger signs, more of them, or both?

Should we make other weapons illegal too, or just guns? - Why or why not? Should there be a death limit to potentially illegal weapons? How do we determine what should be made illegal? Should we make box cutters illegal because of 9/11, or manure illegal because of Oklahoma City?

Limiting ammunition - Would this be effective? Would we prevent people from recycling their own ammunition? How would we prevent this? How would it be enforced? Would gun powder be illegal to purchase? Will we have ammo ration cards?

Other - Please explain

Poll is multiple choice, please explain how your selections will save lives.
 

desert dude

Well-Known Member
I chose "other".

I would allow private citizens to be armed, either open-carry or concealed at the discretion of the citizen. This would allow a response more effective than the official, public school strategy of throwing erasers at the armed crazy person.

For those of you who want common sense gun control laws, please explain how any of your preferred common sense measures would have prevented Adam Lanza from murdering all those children and teachers.
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
I chose "other".

I would allow private citizens to be armed, either open-carry or concealed at the discretion of the citizen. This would allow a response more effective than the official, public school strategy of throwing erasers at the armed crazy person.
all the people with CCW in tucson did nothing to stop loughner, he was only stopped when he went to change his 30 round mag.

a 10 round mag would have saved many lives in tucson that day. more guns didn't. FACT.

For those of you who want common sense gun control laws, please explain how any of your preferred common sense measures would have prevented Adam Lanza from murdering all those children and teachers.
a secure gun safe. lanza went out to buy his own guns beforehand but didn't because he didn't want to do a background check. his mother left her guns nice and unsecured though.
 

lifegoesonbrah

Well-Known Member
all the people with CCW in tucson did nothing to stop loughner, he was only stopped when he went to change his 30 round mag.

a 10 round mag would have saved many lives in tucson that day. more guns didn't. FACT.
How would we enforce magazine limits?

a secure gun safe. lanza went out to buy his own guns beforehand but didn't because he didn't want to do a background check. his mother left her guns nice and unsecured though.
So the background check did not work, then? How would we ensure people lock up their weapons by government enforcement? Would we have gun safe checks by law enforcement? Would we make it a mandatory purchase with every gun? or both?
 

lifegoesonbrah

Well-Known Member
Do background checks and monitor all patients prescribed anti depression and ADHD medication.

How would we monitor them? Who would do this? Should we release medical records to all law enforcement and have them do safety checks on those taking medication? What about other medications like painkillers, how do we know what medications to monitor? What about alcohol? Would this have stopped Adam Lanza?
 

UncleBuck

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How would we enforce magazine limits?
pretty easily.


So the background check did not work, then? How would we ensure people lock up their weapons by government enforcement? Would we have gun safe checks by law enforcement? Would we make it a mandatory purchase with every gun? or both?
the background check worked very well, it deterred the murderer from gaining access to guns.

if people were subject to harsh penalties for not securely locking up their guns around mentally ill people, i bet more people would lock them up securely. lots of people follow the law just for the sake of following the law.
 

desert dude

Well-Known Member
all the people with CCW in tucson did nothing to stop loughner, he was only stopped when he went to change his 30 round mag.

a 10 round mag would have saved many lives in tucson that day. more guns didn't. FACT.



a secure gun safe. lanza went out to buy his own guns beforehand but didn't because he didn't want to do a background check. his mother left her guns nice and unsecured though.
I haven't read much about the whole incident. Has this been reported, i.e. were the guns not stored in a safe/ no trigger locks?
 

cleverpiggy

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It appears that many of the recent mass shooters/murders were on prescription anti depressant's or ADHD medication, but the main stream media fails to report these facts. The media and government find it easy to blame the gun for the big pharmacy side effects.
 

lifegoesonbrah

Well-Known Member
It appears that many of the recent mass shooters/murders were on prescription anti depressant's or ADHD medication, but the main stream media fails to report these facts. The media and government find it easy to blame the gun for the big pharmacy side effects.

You are absolutely right, I am just curious of how this can possibly be enforced.
 
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