Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 8/14/2019 12:38 AM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-13 5:56 p.m., Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

They do this for motor cars and other things besides.
For guns why not a sliding scale where the fee increases per gun for
each owned. And fingerprint and photograph the owners.

True. There's not even a requirement that a gun owner demonstrate
that
he knows how to use (SAFELY use) the thing.


I wonder who many of those who are talking against guns and want gun
control,; have ever tried to buy a licensed gun, and gone through the
current back ground checks required for gun owner ship.

Odds are they only know what the media has told them.



There is a requirement to take a driver's test and a renewal every few
years, but look at all the accidents and around 30,000 killed each year
by cars.

It is true that while a background check is often required (or in some
states a concealed weapon permit), there is no check for being able to
even know which end of the gun to point at someone. Probably no where
as meany deaths by accident.


And some 36,000 killed by gunfire, Pretty ****ing pitiful.

Rene


I like graph #6 and graph #7 here.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...cs-maps-charts


Paul

Did you check and see that most mass shootings are done with legally
registered guns?

I just thought you might have some perspective to offer
on Graph #6 and whether you thought it was bad enough
to need fixing yet.

The first step for your country, is acknowledging you
have a problem.

Since your country doesn't have a functional government,
I don't think it's really possible to do anything anyway.
But it's fun to pretend. Part of being in government
is doing unpopular things, and "suffering at the polls" for it.
If you actually believed in what you were doing as
a politician, you weren't "in it for the pension",
that would be a worthwhile sacrifice. You get to
contribute to your country, are kicked out, and the
next positive contributor takes over.

But the first step, is looking in wonderment at
graph #6, and maybe... just maybe... shaking
your head a bit.

Discussing "potential policies" is likely pointless
right now. Because no one has the fortitude to do anything.

If anything changes in your country... it will be by random chance.

Who knows, maybe the problem will be fixed a hundred years
from now. It could happen.

Paul