Easy.
1) Background checks required on ALL guns sales, period. You want to sell a gun? You have a responsibility to make sure that the person you're selling it to isn't forbidden by law from owning one. This fits in perfectly with your "responsible gun owner" theory.
2) Licensing and training. Want to buy a gun? Fine. But you need to prove that you know the laws, know basic safety, and know basic operation. This is a machine designed specifically for killing people, it's not a teddy bear. Treat it with respect, understand it's risks.
3) Limit on sales quantities. Want to buy a gun? OK. Want to buy two? Fine. Want to buy 50? Nope. Anyone buying 50 guns is trafficking, period. You can't use 50 guns for protection, or for hunting.
4) Safe storage laws. You must keep your gun locked up or otherwise unavailable to to anyone who isn't you. Your kid grabs your loaded shotgun and blows away a neighbor? Guess what sweetheart, you're liable. It's a deadly weapon and shouldn't be easily accessible to everybody. Someone break in to your house and steal your locked gun? That's OK, you were following the law. No harm, no fowl.
None of these laws would, in any way, infringe on anyone's right to own a firearm. You can still own guns, you can still go down to the range and pop off a few boxes, you can still go hunting. But with those rights come responsibility. Anyone who advocates for rights without responsibility is 1 temper tantrum away from being the next mass shooter.
All of these laws have been put in place in other countries around the world, and all have them have been proven to reduce gun-related crime in every single instance. Oh and guess what? None of those countries subsequently fell under the rule of a tyrannical dictator, either
This isn't theory, this isn't speculation, this isn't a "belief". These are facts, backed up by empirical, observable, and repeatable evidence. You can choose to ignore it all you want; that doesn't make it any less true.
1) Background checks required on ALL guns sales, period. You want to sell a gun? You have a responsibility to make sure that the person you're selling it to isn't forbidden by law from owning one. This fits in perfectly with your "responsible gun owner" theory.
2) Licensing and training. Want to buy a gun? Fine. But you need to prove that you know the laws, know basic safety, and know basic operation. This is a machine designed specifically for killing people, it's not a teddy bear. Treat it with respect, understand it's risks.
3) Limit on sales quantities. Want to buy a gun? OK. Want to buy two? Fine. Want to buy 50? Nope. Anyone buying 50 guns is trafficking, period. You can't use 50 guns for protection, or for hunting.
4) Safe storage laws. You must keep your gun locked up or otherwise unavailable to to anyone who isn't you. Your kid grabs your loaded shotgun and blows away a neighbor? Guess what sweetheart, you're liable. It's a deadly weapon and shouldn't be easily accessible to everybody. Someone break in to your house and steal your locked gun? That's OK, you were following the law. No harm, no fowl.
None of these laws would, in any way, infringe on anyone's right to own a firearm. You can still own guns, you can still go down to the range and pop off a few boxes, you can still go hunting. But with those rights come responsibility. Anyone who advocates for rights without responsibility is 1 temper tantrum away from being the next mass shooter.
All of these laws have been put in place in other countries around the world, and all have them have been proven to reduce gun-related crime in every single instance. Oh and guess what? None of those countries subsequently fell under the rule of a tyrannical dictator, either
This isn't theory, this isn't speculation, this isn't a "belief". These are facts, backed up by empirical, observable, and repeatable evidence. You can choose to ignore it all you want; that doesn't make it any less true.
Hint: it's cultural and political, and actually has very little to do with the guns themselves.
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