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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them. [/quote]

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them.  I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size.  I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”.  In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead. [/quote]

The level of ignorance and paranoia in this post is pretty astounding. You are going to have to shield your brown kid from other brown people because 35 percent of non-white Americans live in a household with a gun. [/quote]

So when people point out that the chance of a home invasion is small, gun fetishists talk about “why take a chance”.  I am in the same boat.   I would like to know where gun owners are so that if my kid breaks down and has to knock at a neighbor’s door, he is avoiding the trigger-happy frightened gun owner.  Even if the majority of gun owners would help my kid out, I don’t want him to come across the one who wouldn’t.  Call it paranoia if you want.  But it’s my responsibility to do what I can to teach him how to stay safe.  And the way for a brown kid to stay safe is to avoid people they don’t know with guns.  Because those gun owners could be amped up on an unhealthy diet of fear and my kid could be the victim of their insecurity.   No thank you. [/quote]

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