I'll jump in late with a few thoughts. One, we cannot ever allow the people of this country to lose the right to bear arms. We can, however, and should, place limitations on the right in terms of the number and type of arms allowed. We should increase penalties for gun crime as well, and not just for the perps. Your kid uses your gun to shoot up a school and kill ten people? Here, have ten counts of manslaughter leveled against your for your negligence in failing to secure the firearm.

I will never, never, NEVER support use of mysterious government watch lists to deprive someone of any right without due process, and neither should you.

I don't understand why a private citizen needs a fully automatic weapon or a suppressor/silencer, nor do I understand the need for a dozen guns or thousands of rounds of stockpiled ammunition. I can be swayed on this point, but I do believe that outlawing fully automatic weapons, limiting the quantity of weapons that can be owned and the amount of ammunition that can be owned are good ideas. "A registry is the first step towards confiscation," I've heard it many times and I don't disagree, but I don't see a better way to enforce what seems to me to be common sense legislation.

We can't stop gun violence, and any attempt to do so would result in an unacceptable forfeiture of rights. We can mitigate it, and that has to be the focus. Make it harder to do and easier to bring to an end when it occurs.

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