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Originally Posted by Azure
It must be nice to live in such a black and white world where the only 'solution' is an outright ultimatum on whatever the issue is.
Of course, this has been your argument in every single thread you have ever been involved in, and anyone that disagrees with that 'black and white' interpretation is 'labeled' according to your flavor of the day.
Of course reality is so much different.
An outright ban won't work. The only ones advocating for that are people that don't own firearms. It is afterall quite easy to want to ban something you don't like.
The only thing that will work and HAS worked is sensible solutions like magazine size restrictions, mandatory safety courses, mandatory 2 week waiting periods, background checks....and MORE gun safety courses.
These are things I have supported all along. I have also said I agree with many of the things Obama proposed, if not all of them.
But hey, its more fun to ignore that and stick to the labels, isn't it?
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What the US really needs, but will not get, is pretty much an outright ban on handguns, they are the largest cause of death and the least usefull for anything other than shooting your wife, boss or yourself. They are essentially the gun of choice for the casual buffoon who should never really have a gun.
Couple that with a ban on bulletproof vests, a law that required every gun owner to have a gun cabinet (and no purchase of gun or ammo without this being verified) and keep guns under lock and key with, at least at first, severe penalties if a person is found to have breached them.
Compared to handguns assault rifles are meaningless statistically.