CmdrSlander
Member
...but don't worry, it's not Michael Bloomberg's scheme to punish legal gun owners or the Brady's plot to end the Second Amendment.
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Every time there is a mass shooting we lose a little bit our freedom that we'll never get back. They force us to go on the defensive and turn ever growing segments of the population against us. If the current status quot continues, wherein the only gun law reforms are feel good measures like AWBs, we will lose most of our rights within the coming generation.
I fear that we are about one Sandy Hook away from universal registration and mag bans, and two away from semi-automatic firearms bans and confiscation, and three away from mandatory inspections of gun owner's property and gun storage facilities. We need a plan that will meaningfully reduce mass shootings and gun violence in general if we want to keep our guns... and I mean all of our guns. I have developed a proposal the attacks the three reasons why we are losing our gun rights:
1) Crazy people with guns
2) Criminals with guns/access to guns
3) Unsafe schools and public areas
The plan is as follows:
1)
-Fund an independent board of medical professionals to create a list of prescription medications and mental conditions that should disqualify someone from owning a gun. Use the fact that Obamacare lets the government into health records to pour this information (a list of all the newly disqualified people) into NICS (turning a negative into a positive).
-Public schools that receive government money should be required to screen all students for violent mental problems as a condition of enrollment, with screenings increasing in high school.
-Make NICS accessible for free to private sellers via an automated phone system, the internet, and an App. Strongly encourage its use by all responsible private gun sellers. (Just as someone who does not keep their guns in a safe is looked down upon in the firearms community, someone who does not use a free check on the person they are selling to could be equally shamed).
2)
-End straw purchases; make reporting a lost or stolen firearm easy and free. If a lost or stolen firearm is found to be used in a crime within one year and you don't report it, you are guilty of a misdemeanor at first, with escalating penalties for every time this happens. Also, you become a prohibited person for three months, then six, and so on.
-Make "theft of a deadly weapon" a Federal crime and a felony.
-Deploy SWAT and other high impact interdiction teams against criminals known to have stolen firearms or straw purchased firearms. In doing so make an example of said criminals.
-Expand the Curio and Relic FFL to include all modern, non-NFA firearms and allow C&R holders to sell to each other across state lines and use the USPS to mail guns and ammunition. (This makes private sales less attractive, reducing the likelihood, however slim that criminals will use lawful private sales to buy guns for their nefarious purposes.)
-Simplify and digitize the process of a acquiring a C&R FFL.
-Allow 18 year old citizens to purchase handguns and "other firearms" from FFL dealers if they provide an adult character witness so they don't have to turn to private sales. The ultimate goal is to make private sales and the "gun show loophole" irrelevant by making other ways of lawfully purchasing firearms more attractive.
3)
-Encourage through monetary incentives the hiring of former law enforcement and military by school districts provided these professionals carry concealed while on the job.
-Allow CCW holders to carry guns on school property by amending the Gun Free Schools act and state CCW laws.
-Allow teachers, parents, etc. to carry concealed without a permit on school grounds with the permission of the school's administrator.
-Move to permitless or no-training-required carry in all 50 states in order to maximize the number of people concealing a firearm and thus increase the number of immediate responders to violent incidents.
R/S,
CmdrSlander
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Thoughts?
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Every time there is a mass shooting we lose a little bit our freedom that we'll never get back. They force us to go on the defensive and turn ever growing segments of the population against us. If the current status quot continues, wherein the only gun law reforms are feel good measures like AWBs, we will lose most of our rights within the coming generation.
I fear that we are about one Sandy Hook away from universal registration and mag bans, and two away from semi-automatic firearms bans and confiscation, and three away from mandatory inspections of gun owner's property and gun storage facilities. We need a plan that will meaningfully reduce mass shootings and gun violence in general if we want to keep our guns... and I mean all of our guns. I have developed a proposal the attacks the three reasons why we are losing our gun rights:
1) Crazy people with guns
2) Criminals with guns/access to guns
3) Unsafe schools and public areas
The plan is as follows:
1)
-Fund an independent board of medical professionals to create a list of prescription medications and mental conditions that should disqualify someone from owning a gun. Use the fact that Obamacare lets the government into health records to pour this information (a list of all the newly disqualified people) into NICS (turning a negative into a positive).
-Public schools that receive government money should be required to screen all students for violent mental problems as a condition of enrollment, with screenings increasing in high school.
-Make NICS accessible for free to private sellers via an automated phone system, the internet, and an App. Strongly encourage its use by all responsible private gun sellers. (Just as someone who does not keep their guns in a safe is looked down upon in the firearms community, someone who does not use a free check on the person they are selling to could be equally shamed).
2)
-End straw purchases; make reporting a lost or stolen firearm easy and free. If a lost or stolen firearm is found to be used in a crime within one year and you don't report it, you are guilty of a misdemeanor at first, with escalating penalties for every time this happens. Also, you become a prohibited person for three months, then six, and so on.
-Make "theft of a deadly weapon" a Federal crime and a felony.
-Deploy SWAT and other high impact interdiction teams against criminals known to have stolen firearms or straw purchased firearms. In doing so make an example of said criminals.
-Expand the Curio and Relic FFL to include all modern, non-NFA firearms and allow C&R holders to sell to each other across state lines and use the USPS to mail guns and ammunition. (This makes private sales less attractive, reducing the likelihood, however slim that criminals will use lawful private sales to buy guns for their nefarious purposes.)
-Simplify and digitize the process of a acquiring a C&R FFL.
-Allow 18 year old citizens to purchase handguns and "other firearms" from FFL dealers if they provide an adult character witness so they don't have to turn to private sales. The ultimate goal is to make private sales and the "gun show loophole" irrelevant by making other ways of lawfully purchasing firearms more attractive.
3)
-Encourage through monetary incentives the hiring of former law enforcement and military by school districts provided these professionals carry concealed while on the job.
-Allow CCW holders to carry guns on school property by amending the Gun Free Schools act and state CCW laws.
-Allow teachers, parents, etc. to carry concealed without a permit on school grounds with the permission of the school's administrator.
-Move to permitless or no-training-required carry in all 50 states in order to maximize the number of people concealing a firearm and thus increase the number of immediate responders to violent incidents.
R/S,
CmdrSlander
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Thoughts?