I still ask, why is documentation a mitigator in any crimes?
What difference does it really make?
Virtually every one of these mass shootings involve legally purchased
and properly documented firearms.
When you look at the bulk of the murders (around the drug trade), the
guns are usually stolen and I doubt anyone will be rushing down to the
police station to register a stolen gun, particularly since most are
barred from owning one in the first place.
Because we have to change our thinking about gun ownership, not outlaw them.
You said you had a shotgun at 15 and "unfettered" access to a .22 before
then. Tim just mentioned that he had a .357 at 15 and a .44 at 17.
Obviously both of you were responsible and careful with them otherwise
either or both of you would not be around to be posting in rec.boats today.
But, let me ask you this:
Do you (and Tim) think that now-a-days any 15 year old kid in your
neighborhoods should have the right to have a shotgun or a .357 whatever
it was?
Is your confidence in other families and the parents that control
them high enough to feel comfortable with kids barely beyond puberty
walking around with those firearms?
Not me. Many parents today don't even enforce some of the basic
rules we grew up with.
So now, at least, you seem to be admitting this is a societal problem
more than a gun problem. Why not put the same scrutiny on parents that
you want to put on guns?
Why do we need to wait until a kid shoots up his school or more likely
kills himself before we even start to look at what kind of parents and
family structure they have?
We have spent so much time freeing "mom" from her main responsibility
raising her kids to pursue a career and told everyone single parent
household families are fine that we have forgotten kids need parents.
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