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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millions of people own guns without issue.  The problem is certain persons have a propensity to commit gun violence.  Rather than harassing law-abiding Americans by calling for gun "control," we need only lock up criminals and psychos.  [/quote]

So comprehensive psych assessments before every gun purchase and for existing gun owners? Agreed, that's a good first step.[/quote]

Unconstitutional and impossible.
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A refresher:

After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Australia (a country with a comparatively strong 'gun culture', at least by world standards) said "F**k this."

1) They made it illegal to import, buy, sell, trade, transfer or take possession of semi-automatic weapons (the mass shooters' favorite!)
2) Btw, ammosexuals, try to follow along: [b]they did NOT seize anyone's semi-automatic weapons[/b]. If you had them, and wanted to keep them, fine, keep them -- just don't sell them or convey them to someone else, or you've committed a crime.
3) Simultaneously, they instituted a nationwide, no-questions-asked VOLUNTARY gun buyback program. If you have a firearm (any firearm, of any kind, operational or not) and would like to turn it in, the govt paid people $1,000 per gun (this was 25+ yrs ago.)

It's [i]totally[/i] weird, but the mass shootings thing went way, way, way down. Imagine that.

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2...rom-port-arthur.html
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