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Originally Posted by Rekna
I don't think we should eliminate guns entirely. Instead I think we need better background checks and tracking of weapons. Also certain types of weapons need to be restricted or banned. None of us need an assault riffle, RPG, machine gun, ect. Finally we need much harsher punishments for gun violations.
I think every gun made should be fired prior to being sold and the bullet should be used to fingerprint the gun. This fingerprint should be added to a database. Thus if a bullet is found it can be tracked to the original owner. In addition, there should be laws forcing reporting of transfers of ownership and reporting of stolen weapons. If you buy a gun and it is later used in a crime then it is easily tracked to the last legal owner.
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How stringent should these background checks be? should a speeding ticket be grounds for the denial of the right to bear arms? Because that's all that the VT shooter had (according to all current info that is). Also, banning certain types of weaponry for civilian usage is pretty much declaring that the framers of the constitution and BoR were idiots that had no business declaring individual rights anyway. Maryland has already spent over a billion on the bullet printing technology and it hasn't solved a single crime yet and if you wish to have a law that mandates telling authorities when your property is stolen, why not make it mandatory to notify authorities when ANY of your property is stolen?
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