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Originally Posted by Vexx
Again, I readily concede that there are additional steps that should be taken that balance self-defense rights against the potential harm to the community. Gun show loop-holes, a proper integration of the crime and mental health databases coupled with better early identification and response. This is one area I'm extraordinarily displeased with the gun lobbies on --- they should be finding solutions NOW, LAST WEEK, because otherwise they will eventually lose it all if the frequency of tragedies keep accelerating.
Bullying has been a problem since before we qualified as homo sapiens.... it doesn't mean we're stuck with it, at least to the degree it seems permitted or even encouraged.
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Starting with the abolition of the BATFE (or at least the F part), placing firearms under FBI jurisdiction (
since they don't tend to set people up), and ending the practice of banning firearms.
It's one thing to try and prevent persons who should not have access due to criminal or mental issues, it is quite another to attempt to deny access to all.
The "gun-show loophole" is another area of complete nonsense.
Here in Colorado you are not supposed to sell more than one gun to one other person as per Amendment 22 to our state constitution without calling CBI for a background check.
CBI doesn't set anybody up, they don't do sting operations, they don't create crime like the ATF and therefore citizens in Colorado willingly obey this law.
However, if a Federal Law (enforced by ATF) were passed to where all gun show sales had to go through a dealer or through ATF, gun sales would become like drug sales.
Guns would be controlled substances (contraband) akin to illegal drugs and the US isn't winning the "drug war."
I would much rather have voluntary compliance with background checks to get the largest number of gun sales through NICS rather then have ATF totally screw it up and cause most gun sales to go underground.
The NRA and GOA are powerful because of the BATFE and its horrible reputation as a federal agency. Gun owners want protection from the BATFE whom they see as an extention of the Federal government in general.
Get rid of the BATFE and people might be open to better crime-control laws, which is what we really need here.
Gun control should mean "using both hands and knowing how to hit your target."