Reply #47: The major problem with gun deaths...

[krispos42]

of the non-suicidal sort is that most of them are deliberate acts of murder. Very few children below the age of 10 are killed in gun accidents.

What's killing teens and early 20-somethings are other teens and early 20-somethings.


All or nearly all new guns come with either an internal key locking mechanism (it uses like a non-standard Allen or Torx-style wrench), a locking hardsided case (TSA approved), or an external lock like a trigger lock or cable lock. Safe-storage laws typically only are enforced after an incident but probably have at least some value. Gun safes exist now that make fast access easy, so going from totally safe to armed is no longer time-consuming.

Tighter enforcement of gun sellers I agree with 100%. The BATFE should be tracking guns recovered from crimes scenes to see how they got to the criminals and look for unusual patterns. Like "gee, this same guy's house had been robbed three times, each time of multiple handguns that all found there ways into gangbanger's hands!"

States should at minimum make it a law that if you sell somebody a gun in a private transaction you have to get and keep the buyer's name, address, and ID number for, say, 3 years.

It is not a violation of any gun owners' rights to implement regulations in the same manner we do to speech or any of the other civil rights.

It depends on the specific regulation. Not just for the Second, but all rights.