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In reply to the discussion: Guns in the Classroom.... let's think about this for a minute.... [View all]bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Another is registration of guns and background checks on new gun purchasers and buyers of used guns. Any one caught with an unregistered gun or a gun missing a serial number should be immediately jailed and subject to more charges and prison time. The federal government regulates large purchases of nitrous fertilizer and attempts to determine what it will be used for but doesn't have any effective regulation of gun ownership. None of us can go to a service station and fill large containers with hundreds of gallons of gasoline without cops being called on us, yet, any of us can buy guns and magazines that fire dozens of shots in one minute - if we were inhumane enough, we could shoot up a public place or a school, or we could use the gun powder from the thousands of rounds that we could freely buy to make horrific explosives that would instantly kill dozens and continue to kill dozens for days after the explosion is set off.