The president is literally peddling nonsense. It would be as if he announced a war on drugs, focusing on fentanyl-laced cocaine and heroin, by cracking down on CVS and Walgreens pharmacies.
"A better solution, perhaps, is training gun owners to properly secure their weapons."
My suggested approach to this goes one step further than this: gun owners should be as legally culpable for any crimes committed with their weapons, as long as the weapon is out of their control AND the lost weapon remains unreported to the police.
My thought on this is that if you do not know where your weapon is 100% of the time with 100% confidence, then perhaps you should not own a weapon. If you're not 100% confident in lending out your weapon to a friend or family member who you are 100% confident will be as responsible, safe, and secure as you are, then you shouldn't be lending out weapons.
Right now, one of the big issues - and this is related to your straw purchases point above - is that there seems to be insufficient incentives/disincentives in place to keep weapons secure so that they don't end up in the hands of criminals.
I'd also have zero problems with the state mandating that all new weapons sold include biometric identification technology to make using someone else's weapon much more difficult. We have the technology, we just need the political will to simply *allow* these technologies to come to market.[1]
He's just checking the box for the midterms. He knows it's not going anywhere and he must know that gangs don't get guns by buying them from dealer. He has a nosediving agenda and trying to get some wins chalked up. This isn't the way to do it.
If he wants to do something constructive in the gun department then he should send the feds into gang plagued Chicago.
Not a gun guy, never have been, never will be. That said, i hate seeing the numbers of murders in this country by gun. If you are not troubled by it, not quite sure what you are made of. Of course from the old resurgence days, i will never forget this comment: "it's simply the cost of freedom." One hell of an expensive price to pay IMHO.
I am curious how you felt Steve regarding the Brady bill? Good or bad? Would we have been better off today had there been no sunset provision? Gotta admit, Reagan had brass balls to take on the NRA and his own party the way he did.
More importantly, given your comments above, how do you feel about the Texas legislation that pretty much takes us back to the wild west where everyone carries that wants to, no training and no registration? Is this a solution you embrace?
"A better solution, perhaps, is training gun owners to properly secure their weapons."
My suggested approach to this goes one step further than this: gun owners should be as legally culpable for any crimes committed with their weapons, as long as the weapon is out of their control AND the lost weapon remains unreported to the police.
My thought on this is that if you do not know where your weapon is 100% of the time with 100% confidence, then perhaps you should not own a weapon. If you're not 100% confident in lending out your weapon to a friend or family member who you are 100% confident will be as responsible, safe, and secure as you are, then you shouldn't be lending out weapons.
Right now, one of the big issues - and this is related to your straw purchases point above - is that there seems to be insufficient incentives/disincentives in place to keep weapons secure so that they don't end up in the hands of criminals.
I'd also have zero problems with the state mandating that all new weapons sold include biometric identification technology to make using someone else's weapon much more difficult. We have the technology, we just need the political will to simply *allow* these technologies to come to market.[1]
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-15/the-smart-gun-doesn-t-exist-because-of-new-jersey-and-the-nra
He's just checking the box for the midterms. He knows it's not going anywhere and he must know that gangs don't get guns by buying them from dealer. He has a nosediving agenda and trying to get some wins chalked up. This isn't the way to do it.
If he wants to do something constructive in the gun department then he should send the feds into gang plagued Chicago.
Not a gun guy, never have been, never will be. That said, i hate seeing the numbers of murders in this country by gun. If you are not troubled by it, not quite sure what you are made of. Of course from the old resurgence days, i will never forget this comment: "it's simply the cost of freedom." One hell of an expensive price to pay IMHO.
I am curious how you felt Steve regarding the Brady bill? Good or bad? Would we have been better off today had there been no sunset provision? Gotta admit, Reagan had brass balls to take on the NRA and his own party the way he did.
More importantly, given your comments above, how do you feel about the Texas legislation that pretty much takes us back to the wild west where everyone carries that wants to, no training and no registration? Is this a solution you embrace?