The States have had 230+ years to figure this out and they're still screwing-up.
Time to either (a) take control away from them or (b) issue Federal guidelines that each State must comply with.
Not to take guns away.... not to infringe upon rights... but to save lives by ensuring that the "militia" is "well regulated" with respect to firearms.
* Federal database accessible to both law enforcement and private citizens
* Federal identification number for each firearm owner
* Federal identification number for each firearm
* Federal identification number for each approved firearms transfer ( sale, inheritance, loan, etc. )
* Mandatory waiting period for all transfers ( no more same-day transfers, including gun-shows )
* Federal Red Flagging of citizens prohibited from possessing firearms ( and related mechanisms for disputing or removing or renewing )
* Federal enforcement of Federal standards in jurisdictions designated as not complying with Federal statute on the subject
* No transfers ( sale, inheritance, loan, etc. ) without a Federal transaction-approval number
* Limits on the number of firearms ( a half-dozen?) that any single citizen can own
* Limits on the amount of ammunition ( a couple of hundred rounds per weapon? ) that any single citizen can own
* Limits on the capacity of magazines ( twenty rounds? thirty? ) for any repeating weapon
* Standards for secure storage and transportation of weapons and ammunition
* Mandatory Federal background investigation prior to issuing a license - with provision for periodic (once every 2-3 renewals?) refresh
* Mandatory training for any class of weapons owned - Federal standards for training content and testing and periodic ( every 10 years? ) refresher
* Refusal or revocation of license or registration to felons or mental defectives - and seizure of weapons owned by same - permanent or temporary
* Seizure of weapons from suspects in violent-crime cases (automatic)
* Seizure of weapons from those reported to have psychological illness ( court warrant required )
* Seizure of weapons from those in violation of licensing or registration or ownership regulations ( court warrant required )
* Compensation for cash value of related items seized for non-criminal cases
* Death penalty for those convicted of intentional killing of another human being using a firearm
* Long prison sentences for those convicted of non-accidental non-lethal injury to another human being using a firearm
* Long prison sentences for any other crime committed using a firearm
* Medium prison sentences for anyone found in possession of a firearm without license or registration ( allowance made for late renewals, etc. )
The same crap pulled by every country that ever stripped their citizens of their ability to defend themselves.
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Yep....no need for any of that......if you want to stop 95% of gun crime and gun murder, simply keep the democrat party from releasing known, repeat, violent gun offenders....who they release over and over again.....
Also.....my solution...notice it doesn't take any registration of any gun owner to do this...
I support a life sentence on any criminal who uses a gun for an actual gun crime..... and 30 years if a criminal is caught in possession of a gun, even if they are not using it at that moment for crime.
This will dry up gun crime over night. Criminals will stop using guns for robberies, rapes and murders.....and those who do will be gone forever......
Criminals will also stop walking around with guns in their pants......which is the leading cause of random gang shootings in our cities. if they are stopped by police, with a gun in their pants, they are gone for 30 years...they will stop carrying those guns, and random gang violence will end.
You implement this with two other things...
1) No More Bargaining Away the Gun Charge.........it must be against the law to bargain away a gun charge as part of a plea deal....this stops.
2) When a criminal is arrested for any crime, and booked in...they will be read the announcement that any use of a gun in a crime is a life sentence without parole, owning or carrying a gun as a felon is a 30 year sentence without parole....when they are released from custody...the same will be read to them again....when they meet their parole officer it will be read to them again.....the U.S. government will also buy and send out Public announcements on this policy on t.v. radio. and cable......
That is how you stop gun crime over night.
Mass shooters are different..... but with only 93 people killed in mass public shootings in 2018, they are not the major problem in gun crime.
The value in my plan......it actually targets the individuals actually using guns to commit crimes and murder people....
It does not require new background check laws, it does not require gun licensing, licensing gun owners, gun registration, new taxes, fees or regulations on guns...
By making gun crime a life sentence, criminals will stop using guns for crime and will stop carrying guns around for protection.....
Also....a nurse, with a legal gun, driving from Pennsylvania, to New Jersey, will not be considered a gun criminal.....that will end. Criminals with a record of crime, caught with a gun will get 30 years, no deals.....and criminals who use guns for actual crime...robbing the local store, rape, robbery, murder.....life without parole...
This, of course, eliminates the need for more gun control laws...we can already do this.....
Mass shooters
1) end gun free zones
2) get the media to stop covering mass shootings like it is the Oscars.....
3) We are already seeing this...get people who know these nuts to report these nuts....
4) Make sure the police who know these nuts arrest these nuts when they have the chance so they will pop on background checks....
What does each do to stop mass shooters....
1) keeps shooters from targeting people, since they target gun free zones.
2) The media not covering it like they are the criminal oscars deters copycats...just like they stopped covering teen suicides to stop the copycat effect
3) The only way to stop mass shooters, since they commit no other crime, is for family, coworkers and neighbors to report their violent behavior....the Odessa shooter should have felonies for the crimes he was committing but they didn't report his shooting his weapon from his front porch....
4) The Parkland shooter had 33 contacts with police and numerous contacts with police at his school.....due to Obama's "Promise Program" the police never arrested him for the felonies he committed....so he didn't pop on the background check..