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[quote=Anonymous]Jesus, just because controls or regulation of gun ownership won't solve every crime, it is a step in the right direction. Baby steps is how sanity will prevail, not in a wholesale change in one swoop.

Is gun control the only answer here? No. We need better mental health treatment and reporting, for example.  But, in my view there is absolutely no way any law abiding citizen should oppose:
-strict background checks with a waiting period;
-your on the watch list? Sorry, no gun until you go through process to show you should.
-criminal background (at some threshold TBD)- no gun
-gun related injuries should be studied, per the position of the AMA.
-there should be a complete ban on military style assault rifles and similar guns. Do not quibble with me on the technical differences between semi-automatic v. assault rifles, etc. We all knwo the guns we are talking about here. The ones you can fire off many rounds in a short period of time, at high forces, and are meant to kill. That's their purpose. 
-All gun owners should be required to go through a training course, including safety, and be licensed.

No one is TAKING all your guns. So that boogeyman argument is bullshit. And, yes, there will be an illegal market (for now) in large part b/c of all the guns in circulation due to the lack of controls. That will gradually change.

The NRA and its supporters have had a stranglehold on this argument long enough. I'm sick of it. If I need to be a single issue voter to ensure that their hold on policymakers ends, so fucking be it.[/quote]

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