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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

We are posting in a mass shooting thread, I assumed you would know I was talking about firearms...........

Well then at least try not to insult everyone's intelligence and call them what they are.

I have no idea what kind of control wouldn't violate their "core right". However, I do know that the current approach is not working. When the US guns violence per capita is in line with 3rd world countries, you might say there is a problem.

Well if the current approach isnt working then what is wrong with it? You seem to think its broken so if thats the case how would you go about fixing it?

I suspect that it will take a fundimental shift in their "core values". Is this possible, I have no idea, it will take years, maybe generations, but I hope it happens. Sadly, I am not confident it will.

By shift in core values you mean subjugating the 2A?

So wait what?? There are 300 million (you number) firearms and no one knows where they are.......Don't you think that is a problem? Don't you think that someone (other than the owners) should know where they are?

If you can explain to me why a private citizen needs to give information and control about a piece of property he owns to the gov't then I'll perhaps consider it to be a problem. Regardless, they do not have any idea where the 300+ firearms are so what difference does it make?

Thanks tips. I am aware the NRA is not giving out firearms, although if they could figure out a way to do that I am sure they would. What the NRA, et al., is doing is yelling and screaming about gun ownership and how any discussion on gun control is un-American (my term).

You're welcome, resort to condescending remarks all you want, only proves you have no clue what you are talking about. But by all means, still insist your position that the big bad NRA would still give firearms away if they could.

It appears, and I might be wrong that you are inagreement with the US approach to gun control. If such is the case, we could talk/post ofr 100 years and I will never change your mind. Stats regarding the number of deaths related to guns in the US will do nothing.

Thankfully I live in Canada, but I have friends and family that lives in the states and that drives me crazy.

Americans poorly perceived gun culture has nothing to do with the gun itself and everything to do with the individual. Blaming a mass of people and punishing them for the crimes of a individual does not mean others forfeit their rights.