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If it prevents one Sandy Hook, I'm good with it.

 

I am convinced it can. I do not understand the NRA narrative that says if a gun safety measure can't eliminate all mass killings, that it means we should do nothing at all to try to reduce them.

 

But that's basically the same argument I made in another thread, when I said eliminating gun-free zones will prevent mass shootings. You objected. But they are both basically the same premise....neither is a perfect solution, but both follow a line of thought that is almost impossible to quantify. We have no way of knowing how many mass shootings more open carrying prevents. We have no way of knowing how many mass shootings more stringent permitting prevents. The real difference is, do you want to attack the problem by limiting the law-abiding, or by empowering them? Because ultimately, the only people affected by a new law are those who willingly submit to it.

 

You are conflating several issues here I think. Mass killings are not the only campus gun problem. There are almost no instances of armed people being in place to stop a mass killing, but there are weekly incidents of fistfights turning into gun fights, armed robberies, accidental discharges, suicides, and yahoos firing guns into the air. There are good reasons to keep gun off campuses. Not the least is that it gives police a tool to apprehend suspects up to no good on campus. If they have a gun, they can be arrested and charged.

 

I answered this false analogy pages ago. Car registration isn't intended to prevent drunks from driving. It is to make car owners accountable for their vehicles and legally responsible for seeing that the authorities can find, track, and determine the ownership of a car that is involved in a crime.

You can't out up with a minor inconvenience to help prevent mass killings?

I thought Republicans favored local governments making decisions? Only when they like the decision, apparently. And you made that up about San Francisco.

How? All she would have to do is get the gun registered when she bought it. It's automatic whenever you buy or sell a car. It would work the same way with guns.

 

I know.

I still don't see how registration would hurt her. After probate, the house, the car and the guns would all become her possessions. She would only need to transfer registration of the gun, just like the car and the boat.