Video console death: US boy, 9, 'kills sister, 13, over controller'
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My main concern with licensing is of course that whichever bureau is responsible for issuing them suddenly decides to stop. There can be no real long term guarantee that the licensing system will continue to function as intended since any future legislation can further alter it.
It is very difficult for me to get behind measures like that without the guarantee that they won't later be twisted to criminalize me. That aside, I don't think licensing would be a bad thing.
Yeah, the biggest problem with most prospective gun control legislation is that it requires bureaucracy to be competent, if not benevolent. I'd even be in favor of a universal registry if it didn't have so much potential for abuse. I can understand gun owners hesitation on legislation when the Dems continually demonstrate a lack of basic understandings and have an uneasy track record on things like this. I think our best bet is encouraging a shift in how we think and discuss guns and voting in more informed and rational representatives that we can have faith in to put forward good, enforceable and productive gun control legislation. Hopefully the gun debate matures enough in coming years to make that a reality.
This chart is actually quite misleading. First of all it randomly starts only in 2009 which happens to be the year of the Winneden school shooting in germany. The year you start it in is important since Germany would have a lower rate if it started later; conversely, one of the deadliest mass shootings in the US (Virginia Tech, 2007) is left out because it only starts in 2009 rather than later. Also, the US is the only country which has consistent mass shootings on that list. Via Snopes:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/236991/fb7ec2df-7355-4f15-b66e-2a9afc53004c/mass shootings list.png
As you can see from the above table, the idea that the higher average death rate from mass shootings in non-U.S. countries does not actually debunk the claim of "weekly mass shootings," (though that's an exaggeration), as the U.S. is the only country on the list which had a mass shooting every year in the covered period. (Canada didn't make it onto this list. Canada experienced shootings in 2011, 2012, 2013, three in 2014, with death rates of 4, 2, 2, and then 16 total for 2014).
What happens NOW if, say, a felon is left guns in an inheritance? They can't legally own them, can they? What do they do with them then?
In your particular scenario for licensing, then I suggest they be left to someone who IS licensed until the heir acquires a license.
If the guns are left to someone in an inheritance who is a felon, they can't take possession. I mean, they physically could, but they would be breaking the law and serve prison time for it. They go to someone else, or get sold to a gun store, pawn shop, or the police.
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