jmg: - they like the "common-sense" route Australia took but NOT the (important) part about the compulsory buybacks and new laws to make the bought-back guns illegal??
Australia has only about 3 million guns for its ~20 million aussies. America has 100 times more guns (300 mill), what would work in Oz will not work in USA. What with the subversion of the 2ndA in 2008 it would be hard to enact laws to outlaw a particular type of firearm due to buybacks.
HClinton: “The Australian government, as part of trying to clamp down on the availability of automatic weapons, offered a good price for buying hundreds of thousands of guns. Then they basically clamped down going forward in terms of having more of a background check approach, more of a permitting approach,” she said. “But they believed, and I think the evidence supports them, by offering to buy back those guns they were able to curtail the supply and to set a different standard for gun purchases in the future.”
jmg: So how do they want to deal with the millions and millions and millions of guns out there? (be they handguns or semi-autos) Through "restrictions on possession"? What does that mean???
The article did recommend these possible solutions, and remember all that can be reasonably expected by gun control efforts is a marginal reduction in violent crime:
◦Restrictions (not a ban) on the sale and possession of handguns, which were used in 5,562 of the 8,124 gun homicides reported by the FBI for last year.
◦Mandatory universal background checks on all firearm purchases.
◦A federal database that includes those individuals that the states have determined are not mentally capable of handling weapons.
◦A means to report family members or friends whose behavior leads one to suspect that they may harm themselves or others which would lead to a temporary suspension (10 days) of their right to posses a gun pending an investigation.
◦A removal of the NRA-dictated gag on federal research into gun violence.
◦The repeal of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shields gun manufacturers from the same negligence and product liability lawsuits that every other manufacturer in the United States must face.
Anyhow, where you been old friend? long time no see.
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