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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:47 AM Dec 2015

What is "reasonable" gun control?

IMO reasonable gun control would be this:

- license required to own and use a gun (just like one gets a license to operate a 3,000 pound vehicle.)
- liability insurance requirement (just like car insurance)
- legal to have a gun at home (given that there's adequate security in storing it)
- ban on guns inside an establishment that serves liquor.
- gun registration (like you register your car.) The government not knowing what weapons you have is not a legitimate reason not to have gun registration.
- new guns should have a built in fingerprint device or key lock to limit the ability of the weapon being stolen and used

Defending yourself against the government is not an excuse not to have gun control and quite frankly it's pretty much guaranteed if one gets into the shootout with law enforcement that they will die in the shootout or be put in prison for a long time if they survive.

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What is "reasonable" gun control? (Original Post) AZ Progressive Dec 2015 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2015 #1
The supporters Turbineguy Dec 2015 #2
To most of us only a total ban is reasonable. ileus Dec 2015 #3
without getting into the technical derailment: no semi-auto or auto weapons. Warren Stupidity Dec 2015 #4

Response to AZ Progressive (Original post)

Turbineguy

(37,369 posts)
2. The supporters
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:55 AM
Dec 2015

of the NRA would like you to post this in the Gungeon. You are free however to talk about pretty much anything else that kills 30,000 Americans per year in the GD forum.

(on edit: for those who have had their sense of humor shot off)

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
4. without getting into the technical derailment: no semi-auto or auto weapons.
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:35 AM
Dec 2015

the details can be worked out by experts.

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