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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Republicans:  What is your proposal to end gun violence in America, and to get all of the illegal guns off of the streets and out of the hands of criminals?

If you say "more guns" then that's what's already been done for decades, and it hasn't worked.

How about an ACTUAL proposal?

And if you don't have an actual proposal, then maybe you should STFU and sit down.

So let's hear it....   give me a serious proposal, or STFU and sit down.[/quote]

Enforce the laws on the books? Go after straw purchasers?  Hire more cops to go after straw purchasers? Penalize any straw purchasers whose purchase results in a shooting?

Extra policing in areas that have large numbers of gun crimes?  More foot patrols? Funding for metal detectors in entrances to shops and private buildings to alert others that you may be carrying?

Stop and frisk (has its own legal problems, but works)?

Its a social justice issue that people of color are hurt more by lax enforcement than other communities, so place the focus on those who need the help the most.

https://www.bradyunited.org/issue/gun-violence-is-a-racial-justice-issue[/quote]

Kind of hard to go after straw purchasers when there is no persistent data or searchable database to work with.

And maybe you haven't been paying attention but the social justice issue isn't "lax enforcement" - police are overpolicing in all the wrong ways - pulling over and harrassing innocent people, engaging in unwarranted brutality while the violence continues unabated without any serious effort to actually root out the core causes of it.[/quote]

I disagree.  When you have juveniles who murder an Uber driver receive a "maximum penalty" of juvenile detention until they turn 21, there is something wrong with our criminal justice system.  They murdered a man trying to earn a living for his family.  
I guarantee you when these teens get back on the streets, they will continue a life of crime. [/quote]

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