Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I've asked this question many times of those who would ban all guns; I never get an answer... [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I stopped reading at the technical ignorance. I'll look over it.
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
Just a few ideas. Still working on a complete list. Most of which can not be done on the federal level or by any government. Mass murders like Oregon is less than one percent of all murder. Any possible life saved, which I doubt, would be offset by those would be alive if they had a gun to defend themselves. Like I said, it is a complex problem that should not be trusted to ideologues and culture warriors.
---First, end the drug war. Take away the money, take away the guns. Repeal the federal prohibition on at least pot. Addiction should be treated as a medical issue, not a criminal one.
---Change welfare rules that don't force fathers out of the house when times are bad. A hand up, not a hand out. While you are giving that hand up, you don't let go when the helpee is only half way up. IOW, remove disincentives to find a job or do something constructive like cutting food stamps when they go back to school.
---Get cities to repeal stupid zoning ordinances that make neighborhoods unwalkable. One thing I noticed living in Japan and Korea, local business mixed residences created a real community. Makes jobs close by and makes people less dependent on motor vehicles.
---Urban farming in greenhouses, if a farmer can do it for profit by selling in local markets year round, why not? Just look at all the empty lots in places like Detroit.
---Provide microloans available to create these small businesses. First priority should be the 20 worst.
---Community policing. Most residents in these places want sub stations. I don't mean cops who live someplace else and drive around in their patrol cars. Yeah they can be there. I'm talking about men and women who live in the area and walk beats and ride horseback. One horse back cop told me in Tampa that he gets the best intelligence by riding a horse through the projects. Kids love horses and rat out the asshole uncle while petting the horse. Trust between the Man and the people in the area is a must.
---Deglamorize criminal misuse of guns. I want those kids to associate guns with the nerdy kid in Rifle Club, Harvard shooting team, and the ISSF World Cup, not using it to be King Bad Ass of the block.
---When local cops bust out of state traffickers, hand them over to the feds for violating the GCA, interstate gun sales without a license, instead of letting local DAs drop the gun crime charges like they usually do.
---Change the sentencing guidelines for straw buyers for known felons. If caught, they usually get probation. They should get the full ten years for each gun. Make a few an example.
---Oh, end gun free zones. I agree with the then INTERPOL head after the mall attack in Nairobi.
I will give you credit for this much, you didn't bring up background checks that have been in place for two decades, mail order and internet sales that have been banned since LBJ signed the Gun Control Act, the mythical "gun show loophole".