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In reply to the discussion: BUT NO, WE DON'T HAVE A GUN PROBLEM IN AMERICA [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)...require anyone who wants to own a gun to be licensed to own one. That means safety training that they actually have standards for and that they have to actually pass. That means background checks. And that means it has to apply in ALL fucking circumstances. I don't give a fuck who you're buying the weapon from or where you're buying it. No getting around the requirements by buying from some private collector when you're unlicensed and doing some under the table cash deal. Get caught doing it, go to fucking prison. BOTH the buyer and the seller.
Second. Enforce the regs. Spot check people with these licenses. Find a gun unsafely stored? Find that they cannot account for weapons they are on record as having purchased? License gone. Guns gone. Fine and/or jail time.
Hold people properly responsible for their conduct if they want to own dangerous freaking weapons. If someone stole a gun from you it better have been by cutting through your gun safe with a fucking blowtorch, not by picking it out of the drawer beside your damn bed.