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In reply to the discussion: How insane is it that you could own a deadly machine like an AR-15 and not need to register it? [View all]Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)I'm not 100% clear on the opposition to requiring licensing for firearms. At least not from the average gun owning/supporting democrat. I understand why the weird crazy anti-government right-wing militia-types are against it. That's usually something about fear of the government coming to take away their guns. I'm going to guess that's not a common fear amongst most left-of-center folks, or is it?
Registration/licensing, mandatory yearly training & assessments, strong red flag laws, etc... seem like good ideas to me.
I don't think there is any practical way to ban guns in the US. It's not politically possible and it's not feasible to think we would be able to do it. Ideas of instituting draconian laws to deter illegal gun ownership doesn't sit well with me. Filling our prisons up more than they already are seems like a step backward. War on guns? Not sure why that would work out better than the war on drugs. When the police are going door to door looking for guns, they won't just be going to white republican neighborhoods to round up offenders. They will also be going to the low income neighbors with high concentration of people who are not white republicans. I'm sure that isn't what most people who promote such tactics have in mind.
There are just my half-baked poorly thought out thunkens.