The NRA will donate more than enough to make up for his lack of funding.
But regardless, something needs to be done. We don't need another AWB aka "ban on 99% of all guns"; I definitely don't want it and will let my vote be known - regardless of party lines. But, a 21+ age rule on "assault weapon"-classified weapons is reasonable. Closing the gun show "loophole" won't inconvenience private sales to the point of oppression. Letting psychiatrists/psychologists and the FBI more proactively update the NCIS system to make known potentially violent or incapable persons and let them investigate people making terror threats or having ties to known hate and/or violent groups so they can stop shooters before they act is something that should have already been done. Police need to also revise their active shooter training and be more vigilant in defending the public at large. The background check needs a "must-approve-sale" rule instead of deferring to gun shops (that is how the Charleston shooter slipped through...).
I feel like if they "get" those then we can resist all further attempts at gun control as completely unfeasible and utterly unreasonable from there on without compromise. I feel like if we are gonna talk about "common sense" gun control then what we should do is have the conversation with them and lead the common sense instead of them. We know guns, after all - they don't.
But regardless, something needs to be done. We don't need another AWB aka "ban on 99% of all guns"; I definitely don't want it and will let my vote be known - regardless of party lines. But, a 21+ age rule on "assault weapon"-classified weapons is reasonable. Closing the gun show "loophole" won't inconvenience private sales to the point of oppression. Letting psychiatrists/psychologists and the FBI more proactively update the NCIS system to make known potentially violent or incapable persons and let them investigate people making terror threats or having ties to known hate and/or violent groups so they can stop shooters before they act is something that should have already been done. Police need to also revise their active shooter training and be more vigilant in defending the public at large. The background check needs a "must-approve-sale" rule instead of deferring to gun shops (that is how the Charleston shooter slipped through...).
I feel like if they "get" those then we can resist all further attempts at gun control as completely unfeasible and utterly unreasonable from there on without compromise. I feel like if we are gonna talk about "common sense" gun control then what we should do is have the conversation with them and lead the common sense instead of them. We know guns, after all - they don't.