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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Surely we all can agree this woman should not have had a gun. No one's trying to take guns away from safe owners. But there can be easy steps put in place to keep guns away from people who should not have guns. Why can't we take some commonsense steps to make us all safer, and keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill?[/quote]

Here's the problem - no one thinks they are an irresponsible gun owner.  Not the guy who killed his kid this weekend, not the lady whose toddler shot her in the Wal*Mart in Idaho, not the police office in Detroit who didn't secure his service weapon.

Everyone thinks they are a responsible gun owner until they day they are proven wrong, and even then some of them won't admit there was ever a problem.  The guy who shot his own kid this weekend?  He's already saying it was a "fluke" and he won't give up his weapons. [/quote]

You're exactly right.  Everyone thinks he's a good driver, and every gun owner thinks he's safe and responsible.  But the problem is that many are not.  One easy and obvious improvement is to require annual safety checks.  If you're safe, you can renew your license every year and prove it to law enforcement.  That won't stop all senseless gun deaths, but it's a minor burden that will surely stop some.

Another step is for states to require registration of all guns, and then cross-check those gun records against criminal conviction and mental health records.  Minimal one-time paperwork for gun owners, but it saves lots of lives by separating irresponsible and unsafe owners from illegal guns.  Seems obvious.[/quote]

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