Quote:Oh come on, it wouldn't be any different from getting a hunting or fishing license. Let's not make this harder than it needs to be. Your registered dealers would be brick and morter stores (Walmart, gander mtn, gun stores). No more gun shows. No more giving a gun to your mentally unstable son who legally cannot possess a gun.

 

Thank you for the well thought-out response. Don't pretend that there wouldn't or couldn't be a problem with your solutions. It's easier to ignore these situations I suppose, but they're possible outcomes to the solutions you provided. 

 

BTW, the son was already forbidden, by law, to possess the handgun. How would it change the outcome of the South Carolina shooting?

 

Quote:Words also can't directly kill people.

 

In the same way that a gun wont kill without action, words wont kill without action.

 

If Kim Jong-Un says that he was John Doe dead, then John Doe will be killed. How is that any different? Even if we throw out death as a possible outcome, the impact that words can have on someone is important. Words can destroy lives. They slander people and ruin reputations. They can keep you from ever getting a job, and they may imprison you for the rest of your life. 99.98% of everything we say ends without negative consequence. On a similar note, 99.98% of all gun owners never commit a crime with them. 

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