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Originally Posted by SUENRAN
And how about alcohol? How about drugs? How about street gangs? How about drug cartels profiting by becoming conduits for illegal immigration? All of these have and do result in death to innocent persons. I guess it depends on what YOU don't like. Get real.
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Alcohol is already regulated. So are pharmaceuticals. There are actual consequences to abuse of these things, other than natural consequences.
The consequence for someone who is not prohibited from owning a gun, who is one of those people who WOULD shoot someone if they had one, even though there's no law saying they can't...and then they get one and actually shoot someone?
The consequence is that the OTHER person is dead, and they might or might not go to jail. However, if there is a law saying they are absolutely not allowed to have a gun because they had to take a test (like a drivers license test but for gun ownership), and either failed, or chose not to get tested... then their killing of someone else will have more consequences. The added consequence being - more jail time, possibly bigger fines, more LIKELY to serve time than not to serve time because of that one thing that said "you were not authorized to possess a firearm and you did anyway."
Stricter enforcement of existing laws, universal background checks, and perhaps a limit on magazine capacity for sale to the public.
I'm not in favor of a ban on weapons. I'm in favor of restrictions, not bans.