Comment by Vegasimov@reddthat.com on "It's a mental health problem!"

Every country that currently has gun control laws, at some point didn’t have gun control laws and did have an armed population

They all managed to pull it off, the USA is unique in thinking this is an impossible task. And they haven’t even tried

Every country that currently has gun control laws, at some point didn’t have gun control laws and did have an armed population

Many of those countries had only an armed aristocracy, and they made those laws to keep firearms out of everyone’s hands before there were hundreds of millions of armed people.

No. All these countries had crap loads of guns. UK is a good example.

Interestingly enough, you can still purchase rifles and shotguns in the UK… you can even purchase an AR-15 or a Beretta ARX 160 legally in the UK so long as it’s chambered for .22LR and approved by the police. You just have to tell them it’s for a shooting club; not self defense.

When the UK passed their laws, it was more targeting handguns.

One of the biggest problems around guns in America is the culture. Dickbags seem to want to associate manhood with the usage of this one specific type of tool.

You can buy pretty much anything in the UK if you meet legal requirements. People have machine guns and even bloody tanks. But they have them for a good and valid reason and don’t go on killing rampages.

Guns regs don’t mean no guns. Gun regs mean no guns for idiots.

Yet you have provided no possible options as to take action. Nice work on the reply. 👍

To provide actual discussion:

Increase rigor for screening on all firearm purchases

Removal of any and all “gun shop loopholes”

Voluntary, no questions asked, buybacks on any firearm

Two of these make it harder for new guns to enter the equation, while not making it impossible for a reasonable adult to get one, and the final drastically lowers the number of guns in circulation.

Voluntary, no questions asked, buybacks on any firearm

That’s already a thing for the most part. You can walk into any gun/pawn shop and sell your gun there and they’ll be happy to take it off your hands AND pay 5x more than a gun buyback program from the state.

Removal of any and all “gun shop loopholes”

That was never a thing. The “loop hole” was selling private party since no individual person has access to the NICS.

The reason you’re going to get more for a gun at a pawn shop or gun shop is because they’re going to resell them. The idea with a government initiative would be to decommission the guns.

It’s my understanding that the term “gun show loophole” is used is because it was/is a common enough practice to meet at gun shows and sell as private sellers, thus bypassing the requirements for bg checks.

I also realized now that I typed gun shop instead of gun show, so sorry if that caused confusion, I’m going to blame autocorrect.

The reason you’re going to get more for a gun at a pawn shop or gun shop is because they’re going to resell them. The idea with a government initiative would be to decommission the guns.

Now you had all of that energy and resource that went into making the gun + the energy required to destroy it vs letting someone who actually wants it, and it mentally OK using. And what if it’s a historically significant firearm? Trying to destroy guns is not going to get firearms owners on your side.

Opening up NICS so the average Joe selling private party can double check the person they’re buying it from would be a huge step forward. That’s a win win for both sides.

That’s a viable start, and both of your suggestions I am in favor of, but it will not remove the millions of firearms that are already in the hands of 1/3 of the U.S. population. It would also not prevent someone from 3D printing a ghost gun. Considering that some gun owners are also handloading / reloading their own ammo at home, you would effectively need to ban the sale of all smokeless powder as well. However, even in doing that, it would not take back the millions and millions of rounds that people already have.

Right. And these are all valid concerns, but they exist everywhere. The end of the day, you’ll actually never remove firearms from the equation, and I’d argue you really shouldn’t. The idea is to limit the access to either people who are damned and determined (3d printers, home gunsmiths and reloaders, etc) and those who are somewhat qualified.

The end of the day, you’ll actually never remove firearms from the equation

Agreed.

It’s not perfect therefore we shouldn’t do anything

Douche.

The answer was clearly “Try”

We haven’t even done that yet.

The path on how to start is clear enough. Voluntarily surrendering weapons, followed by mandatory, decades later we’ll see results. But I don’t think you’re the type to participate in gun control discussions in good faith.

The fact that real kinder eggs are illegal because of safety concerns and guns are not is mindblowing.

It is easier to get a gun in the states than it is to get a kinder egg with a little toy in it.

That’s an absolute lie. I can buy a kinder egg no questions asked online. You can’t sell them as food with plastic pieces inside them, though.

In most US states you have a huge amount of regulation on guns you need to be familiar with and of course it’s different state by state.

Try to cross the border into the states with a real kinder egg and then we can talk about where the lies are.

I have? It’s literally an FDA thing, not something generally enforced by border patrol or regular cops. Customs might stop you if you declare it but frankly I doubt it. They’re more likely to stop you if they think it’s a real egg.

How out of touch can you be?

Try how? Go on, what can I do right now today to start fixing the problem? See if you can answer without an insult.

Read further down the thread.

Again, the point is we’re not even there yet. We can theory craft all we want, and you can poke imaginary holes in every measure taken. And in the end, you will still reach the conclusion of “if it’s not perfect, why try?” and nothing will change.

So, why bother? No matter what solutions someone brings to the table, you will not be satisfied.

I’ve yet to see a solution come to the table. That’s my point. There certainly are plenty of people making claims that it needs to be done, but no one to provide the “how.”

Draw a line in the sand for weapon varieties. For me, that’s semi auto. Allow shotguns, bolt action rifles, etc for practical use and self defense. But any line will be hotly debated.

Ban sales of new ones. Give X years for voluntary surrender of existing ones.

After voluntary window expires, send authorities after registered ones, or just send fines for a while.

Any crime after mandatory kicks in gets multiplied if an illegal gun was in proximity.

Then, time.

Happy? It’s pretty simple to get started. Then iterate when actual problems manifest.

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