The discussion is over because "common sense" means compromising your constitutional and ideological principles and only agreeing with Democrats.
The common sense solution is to apply major criminal penalties against those who use guns for illegal acts. Tack 25 years onto a robbery conviction/sentence if a gun was used to commit the crime. Make the gun owners responsible for their guns. If their guns and/or ammo are stolen or otherwise used in a gun crime, the owner becomes an accomplice. Nothing at all wrong with owning guns for whatever legal reasons. Nothing wrong with requiring owners be responsible. No excuse for getting your gun stolen, either. If the extra sentence isn't a deterrent, at least you keep the violent abusers of gun rights off the streets.
Here's the thing: how many mass shootings in the US involve machine guns (post Al Capone-era)? I don't know of any. If that's because machine guns are ILLEGAL, then doesn't that tell us something?
And this does nothing to fix the slaughter in the school. Perhaps these changes fixes something else, but not the monster right in front of us.
I like a lot of that. But how to you assign responsibility if you don't have mandatory registration of all guns and their owners? If your gun is stolen and unregistered how do you make the owner responsible if they don't report their gun was stolen?
Kids "Packed" at school? As Sly asked in a few posts, do you mean packing weapons to school with you? You couldn't solve your problems without one?
I don't think kids should be able to bring weapons to school, and I'm pretty sure there are laws against underage possession...but I'd have to look that up. There's a big difference between "parent open carrying a rifle walking through the schoolyard" and "Coach Smith can CCW if he wants, especially if he's one of the safety response officials".
>>> Yes, packing implied weapons. >>> Now, I can not grasp the context you are using here. Please clarify.
It depends on the type of weapon and the state. Handguns are not allowed to be owned by people under 18yrs of age nationwide. Rifles and shotguns are allowed in 30 of the 50 states but exact age and other limitations very from state to state.
I presume this is the post you are referring to. Well actually at the time it did not even seem unusual. I lived in my own house alone, and you know a guy needs to cook supper. I often went hunting or fishing to get that meal. There was nothing illegal about it, there were no law prohibiting any of this. My house was about 5 miles from school, having the gun in the car was a handy place to keep it. I kept the .32 revolver in my house though, I figured that would be where I might need it. Hell, I could match anyone for skill, with any of these arms by the time I was 16. Dinner on the table was proof more often than not. I don't think the first law restricting anything was enacted until 1968 when it restricted handguns to 21 years or more of age. It didn't effect me at all. Gun free zones at schools did not begin until the 90s, when the Killing zones were created.
Well, times changed since then. I went to school during the 80's when kids brought weapons (knives and guns) with them to hurt people during the gangs of the time: bloods and crips. That was an extremely violent time on school grounds.
My friend Machado stabbed kids with a pencil. Generally in the arm or shoulder while in a fight. People quit starting fights with him after he started doing that.
