ooky wrote:Ban bump stocks.
1. One rubber band can accomplish the effect of a bump stock, AND be even more accurate.
2. No matter what method you use, full auto makes a rifle less effective, not more.
Rescind the rule prohibiting research into gun violence without Congressional appropriation.
3. Thousands and thousands of pages of gun violence data are freely available online from hundreds of agencies around the world. There is nothing stopping anyone from conducting research into gun violence.
4. There are thousands of research studies on gun violence.
I'd say if it makes sense to need a state-issued licence to drive a car, that has to be periodically renewed, the same makes sense for guns. Note that the car system is not hard for the vast majority of people to obtain a licence, even when very new at driving cars, but you have to demonstrate basic competence, visual competency, knowledge of applicable traffic laws etc.
5. You only need a license to drive a car on public roads, and you also need a permit to carry a firearm in public.
Figure out a way to track purchases so you can identify people obviously amassing arsenals and law enforcement can check in on them - doesn't mean they can't amass the arsenals, but there should be a level of activity of buying guns and ammo that should be considered a red flag.
6. You can buy as many cars as you want without a background check.
7. You can buy as many cars as you want without being put on a watch list.
8. You can use a car to kill people.
9. One person with one hundred cars is no more dangerous than one person with one car. Same with guns.
For god's sake, the second I look at a drill bit cover on one browser, I suddenly get ads for drill bit covers on all my devices, there has to be some way this could work.
10. Yes, we are aware that the government has all the capacity in the world to spy on us.
11. I thought most of us were opposed to it.
12. Many of the past mass shooters were investigated by the FBI after throwing up red flags, and it didn't stop them.
I also like these suggestions from the NY Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/mr-presid ... bout-guns/
*Reinstate the federal assault-weapons ban, or at least revive its key features. Passed in 1994 but allowed to lapse 10 years later, that law prohibited the manufacture of semiautomatic firearms that bore certain features, like detachable magazines, that made them more dangerous.
13. The AWB did nothing to reduce gun violence.
14. "Assault Weapon," is a made up term.
15. "Assault Weapon," is a shibboleth for ignorant gun grabbers.
16. Assault rifles are military grade weapons not available to the general public. The term, "Assault Weapon," was chosen because it sounded like assault rifle, and would scare ignorant gun grabbers into thinking they were talking about military grade weaponry.
Perhaps most important, it also outlawed “large capacity” magazines. Critics argue that the ban did little good — but the fact is that the average toll from mass shootings has been growing. It’s surely worth trying to trim a casualty from the next killer’s total. Note, too, that the ban did no real harm. And it certainly didn’t lead the nation down the “slippery slope” toward eliminating other weapons, let alone a repeal of the Second Amendment, as the NRA and other Washington lobbyists warned.
17. Limiting magazine size does not make a weapon less lethal.
18. Soldiers in Vietnam had 10 round magazines, and still racked up colossal kill counts.
*Raise the age to buy firearms. While Nikolas Cruz’s background and motives are still being investigated, it’s already clear he had issues — and people knew it. But at 19, his record wasn’t enough to prevent a gun sale. Background checks are no good if you hardly have a background. Most states ban drinking under 21; there’s no reason not to similarly curb gun purchases. Ban gun sales to “fugitives from justice.” Such sales have long been illegal, but last year, Team Trump opted to exclude fugitives from the background-check database unless they crossed state lines; that removed 500,000 names from the list. Shouldn’t everyone who flees justice be kept from buying guns?
19. This is complete horseshit. From the ACLU,
*Target bump stocks. These let shooters turn semiautomatic weapons into ones that fire almost as rapidly as fully automatic ones, which are illegal. The idea of a ban got attention last year after the devices helped the Las Vegas shooter carry out his massacre — but soon died. Congress should act. If it won’t, Trump can order a bureaucratic ban: No one claims the Second Amendment protects these things.
20. Bump stocks make guns dramatically less effective. Know nothing gun grabbers continue to know nothing.
*Kill the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. This bill would effectively impose some states’ loose gun-control laws on states with tighter ones; it’s arrogant and anti-federalist. It’s probably going nowhere — but the president can send a clear message by denouncing it. Why mess with places like New York City, which is already the safest large city in America?
21. Supremacy clause cuts both ways. If state law can't be undone by federal law, then Roe v Wade is out the window. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
No doubt other steps can help address the mass-shooting horror. We’re all for better reporting of threats and better security — but no one wants America’s schools turned into fortresses.
22. Plenty of people want armed guards at schools just like there are armed guards at malls, airports, and every other government building but schools.
Nothing can be sure to prevent another Parkland or Las Vegas or Sandy Hook. But that’s a poor excuse not to act. America needs to stand up to these attacks — to make it harder for those who shouldn’t have firearms to get them, to send a message that the nation is cracking down. If it’s possible to prevent or limit even a few tragedies, why not?
23. If it's possible to prevent or limit even a few tragedies, why not put everyone in the nation in prison? Why not?
Now, it doesn't need to be all of these, and to me, none of these specifically on their own are a hill to die on. But what's been happening is we keep reducing regulations (Concealed Carry Reciprocity, Trump's rollback last year of mental health restrictions),
24. CCR lives or dies with RvW
25. Mental health restrictions were not rolled back. See above.
and as these things keep happening and we all get upset, anyone in favor of ANY increase in regulation is shouted down, told they are politicizing the issue at an indecent time, accused of trying to "ban guns", etc. That's not reasonable. Something's not working here. We can do better than what we are doing.
Seems a little extreme and I have no idea if that would kill 17 people that quickly or just burn them, but ok. Although they do require alcohol strong enough that it's super flammable to have those little fireproof caps. And some states limit the size of high proof alcohol you can purchase, and some have databases to track who buys it. So it still seems to be regulated pretty tightly. 
