K & R If you want progressive gun control reform now...

[ellisonz]

...and you still don't care what the right-wing gun culture has to say against taking action to stop the horrible epidemic of violence in this country.

- Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female
- Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male
- Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female
- Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female
- Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female
- Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male
- Madeleine F. Hsu, 7/10/06, female
- Catherine V. Hubbard, 6/08/06, female
- Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male
- Jesse Lewis, 6/30/06, male
- James Mattioli , 3/22/06, male
- Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female
- Emilie Parker, 5/12/06, female
- Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male
- Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male
- Caroline Previdi, 9/07/06, female
- Jessica Rekos, 5/10/06, female
- Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female
- Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male
- Allison N. Wyatt, 7/03/06, female
- Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female
- Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female
- Lauren Rousseau, 6/1982, female
- Dawn Hochsprung, 06/28/65, female
- Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female
- Mary Sherlach, 2/11/56, female

[upaloopa]

1. I want legislation to reduce gun violence but

I would not call it progressive or conservative. This is not a right vs left issue to me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. And for Hadiya Pendleton, 1/29/13, female

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-12/news/chi-hadiya-pendleton-charges-20130211_1_area-central-police-headquarters-gang-members-rival-gang

[graham4anything]

3. I want a bullet in the streets free America.

and with that if it happens, I don't care about what happens with the guns that would not work anymore.

There is NO constitutional right to a bullet.

I want a new court, a new ruling, a reinterpretation and bullet free streets
with zero tolerance to any private person bringing a bullet into the streets.

[Flashmann]

4. K & R

[ZombieHorde]

5. I might want progressive gun control reform, but I don't know what that is. nt

[ellisonz]

6. You can start with the President's Proposal:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence

Now you know.

[ZombieHorde]

8. I like most of those.

I am uncertain about some of them, for example: Give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime.

I read the description, and I thought it was very vague. From your link:

In order to prevent and respond to gun violence, we must give law enforcement every tool they need to keep us safe. That includes passing stronger laws to stop those who would put guns into the hands of criminals, keeping 15,000 cops on the street, and eliminating restrictions that keep federal law enforcement from doing its job.

[ellisonz]

12. I'm sure the White House would be glad to clarify...

...to alleviate your concerns about this language in the proposal.

[The Magistrate]

7. K & R, Sir

[spanone]

10. k&r...

[Honeycombe8]

11. What gun control? The devil is in the details.

I'm in favor of gun control. "Gun control" means different things to different people.

[Recursion]

13. Yes, but...

... I'm not interested in regulating how guns can look, and that's what our party keeps pushing forward.

I do like most of the President's proposals. If someone proposed a semi-auto ban (rather than regulating what semi-autos can look like), I'd lean towards it.

[BainsBane]

15. but you know that is virtually all guns made in the past several decades

How could anything like that possibly get through congress?

[Recursion]

16. Call me a cynic, but it polls well

Having popular legislation crash and burn in the House is one way to change voters' minds.

[BainsBane]

17. That doesn't help me understand your position on the issue

Why do you say you would support a ban on all semi-automatics when such a thing is impossible?

[Recursion]

18. That's an "if I were dictator" preference

If I could simply decide what the laws were, I'd be open to the idea of banning semi-autos, or semi-autos with detachable magazines.

[BainsBane]

19. none of us are

for good or bad. The line on the kinds of weapons people own needs to be drawn somewhere, and many seem to think there should be no line at all. Sure going back to muskets and revolvers might be ideal, but it's never going to happen in a million years. We might, however, be able to do something about weapons that fire 30 to 100 rounds in a minute.

[BainsBane]

14. K&R