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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
A registry is not going to stop everything, but combined with other measures such as banning high capacity magazines (10 or more rounds), the online sale of guns, cracking down on gun smuggling and a waiting period will all help curb this non sense
What is your solution whiteout? doing nothing? that really seems to be working.
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I’d start by increasing access to mental health and removing the stigma associated with getting help. I’d also look into the reason why the US has this issue and other countries where you have access to the same guns don’t.
A registry only tells you who has guns if they register them, it doesn’t say how those guns are being used or how they will be used. Canada ditched the LGR because it wasn’t accomplishing what people thought it would. There was no evidence it actually lowered the homicide rate or made women safer. It was inaccurate and had a low compliance rate (which the police couldn’t stop). The compliance rate in the US would probably be well under 50%, with no way to actually force compliance.
Limiting standard capacity mags (20 & 30 round) doesn’t improve safety and it doesn’t stop crime, even Canadian limited capacity mags can be returned to full capacity in a minute or two. People like to say that if a shooter had to change mags, it would give people a chance to run. That’s not a really viable argument when it takes a second or two to swap.
For the sake of argument, let’s say they do ban mags over 10 rounds. How do you enforce it? There is no record of who bought what (accessory purchases are not regulated), a vast majority won’t voluntarily surrender them without compensation, you have law enforcement that won’t enforce the law and you can’t go house to house to search for them.
Assuming anyone actually complies, how would you use the registry to prevent people from going off the rails and shooting up a mall? Unless your proposal includes limiting the amount of property someone can own and then using the registry and police to enforce those limits. It might be good for after the fact tracing, but in most of these cases, the shooter is either dead or in custody already. Even if they aren’t, tracing is possible now. We already register property, but it hasn’t stopped laws being broken.
A lot of ideas are being tossed around, but they aren’t usually accompanied by how the specific idea would prevent shootings from happening. Not only that, but some of the things suggested are already illegal.