A good first step is registration of all firearms and background checks on ALL gun sales. Even between private parties. This will allow responsible gun owners to continue to own anything they want but will help place responsibility on to people who sell guns to people who shouldn't have them or end up using them for murder/crime.
We can certainly start there.
So how will you get the criminals to abide by the registration laws? How will you keep the criminals from stealing firearms? How will you keep the criminals from obtaining firearms in other countries and walking across our southern border with them?
People who actually think they can get criminals to obey gun laws are terminally obtuse.
A criminal by definition does not obey the law. Does your argument apply to all laws too?
Some law breakers/criminals can be dissuaded when the consequence for violation is severe, and many of us obey speed limits and other easily committed crimes because of their cost when cited/arrested and convicted.
MADD has been an effective organization in reducing drunk driving. During my career in LE we saw a dozen or more new sanctions for DUI introduced in CA and signed by the Governors, including:
- Fines increased Dramatically
- Penalty Assessments Increased Dramatically
- License Suspensions and Revocations
- Jail Mandatory for a first conviction
- Longer Jail sentences for second and subsequent convictions
- A third DUI can be charged as a Felony
- Vehicle Impounded on first and subsequent arrests
- Breathalyzers installed in registered vehicles on the driver's dime
- A one year attendance in an alcohol treatment program (one night a week) paid for by the convicted driver
- Generally three years probation.
MADD is a good model to keep in mind and a likely force if the gun owners, NRA and the other gun organizations won't begin to police themselves.
MADD is a good model to keep in mind and a likely force if the gun owners, NRA and the other gun organizations won't begin to police themselves.
Gun owners support arrest and long prison sentences for gun criminals and felons caught with guns...how is that different than what MADD does genius?
A third DUI can be charged as a Felony
A first gun offense is a felony moron.
Vehicle Impounded on first and subsequent arrests
If you are a convicted felon you can never own a gun again....right?
Breathalyzers installed in registered vehicles on the driver's dime
As a felon you go into the federal data base for background checks already...right genius?
Vehicle Impounded on first and subsequent arrests
If you are caught with a gun you lose it...if you are a convicted criminal caught with a gun, you can be arrested on the spot....
So what exactly isn't the NRA doing to support all of these things that already happen....
Do you actually use your brain....?
I do have and use a brain, a very good one in fact. You, make up stuff to justify the opinions you've been indoctrinated to believe. Most of what you posted is untrue.
You have no understanding of what MADD has done and continues to do. They have lobbied the state legislatures across the nation into increasing penalties for drunk and impaired driving.
So have advocates for imposing sanctions for domestic abusers, not only do both groups lobby in state capitols, they sit in court in mass for sentencing hearings.
The NRA needs to protect the rights of legal gun owners, not object to every effort to reduce gun violence in America. By doing the latter, they put all lawful gun owners at risk.