Yesterday another mass shooting of children, and we are all outraged - supposedly. Yes, we all state that our Thoughts & Prayers are with those fallen and their families. But - as so many memes highlighted today - not our actions and results.
I am a firm Constitutionalist and so I support the 2nd Amendment fully. I support the state's right to allow conceal carry if that is what the constituency desires. What I don't understand is why we regulate other things more closely.
Cars kill approximately 43,000 people a year
Poisonings in the home kill 51,000 people a year
Food Poisoning 10,000 per year
We regulate these extensively and have vast and numerous safeguards because we believe them important.
Gun deaths approach 45,000 per year and yet we do little by State or Federal law to really control who has them and their eligibility to use them.
To drive a car requires:
- Training
- Passing an initial test
- Requalification for the license to drive at a state designated interval which includes:
- Eye/vision exam
- If a car title is passed (via sale) it must go through the state.
- The qualifications vary by vehicle type (for obvious reasons)
But why not:
- Eliminate straw gun sales
- That each gun is registered with its owner and if sold the 'title' is monitored.
- That a test is required to get a license to carry a gun (that I hope includes an eye exam at minimum) how to clean a gun, carry a firearm and ensure the person is qualified for its use.
That this qualification is based upon the type of gun(s) owned. - And why not have a federal data base for State-to-State sales (just like cars). The State's laws will regulate use BUT at least they would know of the gun's owner and qualifications via the state that gun 'resides'
I know that better regulation and registration will not end gun deaths - no more than it does deaths by car. But if it brings it down even a small percentage - even if it saves the death of one child (and likely more) than why not?
I welcome your viewpoint to this post.
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