Automatic rifles are already essentially banned. You need a special license and the rifle has to have been built before a certain date. I can’t think of the last time a full auto rifle or sub machine gun was used in a murder. Probably seventy percent of all rifles are semi automatic and virtually all pistols are as well. Since the definition of a semi auto pistol is the it fires a single round each time the trigger is pulled, even revolvers are semi- auto pistols.
That's good news about the automatic weapons. I guess it's just a semi-automatic weapons that need banning now.
Like I said if you ban semi-autos you ban almost all pistols and a very large percentage of rifles. Instead of making sweeping generalizations, please tell us what you wouldn’t bab given the chance.
All I can say is you must be some kind of fanatic because you won't listen to anything that counters your position. Fanaticism about guns is just another red flag.
You refuse to accept the first premise, that there is a problem. So no matter what I say, you're not going to believe it. Try to have a good day, I plan on it.
A good start would be to have all gun owners registered and checked. A 10-day waiting period for a gun would be a good rule too. If you can't wait 10 days ( to make a thorough check of your background making sure you're not a risk ) to get a gun something is wrong with you. These things won't stop anyone from getting guns, except those who shouldn't have them in the first place.
There already is a through background check. Waiting periods have already been shown to do nothing. If you want to do something actually effective remove the HIPPA provisions that prevent the mentally ill from being reported as ineligible to purchase firearms.
That means the federal standards are too low. Whatever they are, they won't catch everyone. If they are more stringent standards they will catch more that's that's plain logic. Also if we have to have these assault rifles owned by citizens, raising the age to 21 for something that lethal isn't a bad idea either.
You give up too easy that's all I can say. There are too many crazy people in this country with guns and you may well be one of them as far as I know. No matter what I say you say it doesn't work well f*** you. I'm done talking to you it's useless I'm looking for people that want to find solutions that are willing to do the extra work. If nothing else you are ambivalent to the current crisis. Which has been ongoing for at least 30 years. If the founding fathers were alive and witnessed the horrors that modern technology has brought to weaponry they would ban it all.
