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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba
Veto anyone that's been involved with violent or gang crime...
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Federal law bans those who have been convicted of certain crimes from ever possessing firearms. Included in those crimes are all felonies and misdemeanor domestic violence offenses. (The law also prohibits those subject to domestic violence restraining orders from having a gun.) State law often overlaps with this ban; for example, in California, convictions for misdemeanor domestic violence offenses bar offenders from owning or possessing guns within 10 years of conviction.
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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba
and maybe above all, make it so ordinary people can't go and by automatic weapons, or those that would enable them to mow down a crowd of people, as what's happened here.
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The Pulse Club murderer did not have an automatic gun. They are illegal for pubic ownership.
He had a semi-automatic pistol and rifle (SIG Sauer MCX). Semi-automatic means one shot per trigger pull, and gun auto-resets to fire again (even revolvers do that). The MCX magazine held 30 rounds. He obviously had multiple magazines -- and his pistol was there to make sure he could defend while changing mags.
The Declaration of Independence makes it clear citizens prevent "absolute Despotism". I dig Gandhi's nonviolence/passive resistance methods, but the founding fathers planned on armed citizens as a bulwark.
A civilian defending themselves and loved ones from murderous home invaders, when police are 20 mins away, is a good enough reason. But preventing a totalitarian government requires freedom of speech, religion, assembly and the right to bear arms.
In China 2010 a man killed 8 children at a school with only a knife.There would be 10 more similar
attacks in the next 2 years. Let's not look for "magic solutions" that lead to Big Brother.