Quote:We have a gun violence problem in the US. 

 

We have a mental illness problem. Guns don't shoot themselves, and they don't brainwash those that have them into committing murders.

 

Quote:Here's the easy fix:


You want a gun? Fine.


Go to a registered dealer. Get your background check. Come back three days later, buy your gun registered to your name. You can't sell or trade it. You get fined if you 'lose it' or don't report it stolen. Tired of it? Sell it back to a registered re-distributer. This way the state can track where all guns are and hold owners liable.

 

So, in other words, you don't actually have a solution?

 

Registered dealers? Who allows it? Are there a certain number of "registered" dealers? Does the government have the option of limiting the number of dealers and thus the number of people that have guns? 

 

Guns registered to an owner? While you obviously don't believe it to be possible, I don't want the government to know who has guns because I don't trust them to allow me to keep it. Should they choose to, they'll be able to seize these weapons. It's happened in other countries throughout history. 

 

You get fined for losing it? What are you implying? How would the government know that it's lost? Are they going to check on me and my weapons... just to make sure? 

 

Almost everyone that has had a weapon stolen will report it as such. There's literally no benefit of not doing it.

 

If anything, your suggestions pose more problems than it resolves. You assuming it fixes something, but you don't explain how it would. The only thing it'll do is limit the number of gun owners. Since nearly all gun crimes are committed by criminals with (already) unlawful possession of the gun, they'd continued to carry them and victimizing innocents. Before you claim that they'll be tracked and less likely to fall into their hands, all one would have to do is report it stolen. The person buying from the unregistered seller would already be committing a crime, and it wouldn't change the outcome. The seller only needs to claim that it was stolen; the government wouldn't be able to prove otherwise.

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