Quote:If I had the answer to that, I'd be running for President. That's what the discussion at a national level is for. I do have a few ideas:


1. Lengthen waiting periods for a more thorough background check.

2. That background check must include a thorough review of medical history. Mental illness of any kind, including depression, means no gun for you.

3. Make it illegal for guns to be gifted or passed down without the recipient passing the same background check.

4. If a person commits a crime using your gun and you hadn't previously reported it stolen, you are charged with negligence and/or providing a firearm to an unlicensed individual. This includes parents who don't properly secure their weapons, allowing their children of any age to get a hold of them.


I also have some more broad ideas about limiting the number/type of weapons that can be owned by anyone or any organization (including police, FBI, etc., military exempted), limiting the amount of ammunition you can legally possess, etc., but I'm not an expert on gun laws. A lot of it is simply making sure we do a better job of enforcing the gun laws we have on the books, and there's no doubt that those laws failed in this instance.


An idea I've kicked around in my head in the past is banning concealed carry nationwide and making open carry legal everywhere except schools at the same time. If we're going to have guns, we might as well be upfront about it, and if the Charleston shooter had walked into that church and seen four of the nine parishioners packing heat, maybe he'd have had a change of heart about pulling out that gun of his own. There aren't many things that can make you rethink an action taken against another human being like seeing a firearm strapped to said human being's waist can.