1. Much the same as we dealt with the tobacco companies and the illness' associated with smoking.
A pack of cigarettes is what now, $5.00?
the University I work at will be Tobacco Free after the first of the year. Without so much as a complaining letter to the editor
2. Extensive background checks and not just a 3 -10 day waiting period shoot make it a month.
3. I'm ready to be flamed but tax to high heaven nnot only the firearms but the ammunition - use those funds to pay for gun safety programs
4. Hold the munitions industry legally accountable for gun related deaths. Inner city and suburban
5. Fund mental health diagnosis and treatment
6. Firearms training in the schools. Teach our kids that yeah there is a place for firearms in our culture but educate and train them on the proper use and danger.
Take away the mystique
7. Address poverty in inner cities. I mean, seriously address poverty in our inner cities in a way that will meaning fully face down gang culture
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8. As far as the comment of perfect being ... I mean that. you offered the example that Australia still has incidents -- but not the type of incidents we see here or with the regularity. Just because thre is no magic bean that will solve all of this doesn't mean we can't begin doing something
This will not be solved overnight but ---- we have to start somewhere or more importantly some time.
9. I asked earlier and never got an answer -- would you go out of your way to support a candidate that was willing to take a stand for something as simple as mandatory background checks?
First, thanks for offering specific ideas.
1. Basically we are suggesting the same thing. My difference (I suppose) is suggesting a progressive scale on the tax rate based on the lethalness of the weapon. You difference is taxing ammo as well. I'm not sure I'd go there - hey but that's the political discussion process.
2. As I've noted before, I am not opposed to background checks and a month wait, I could live with, though I'd think 2 weeks is sufficient and not punitive (a month seems punitive).
3. See my 1 above.
4. That dog won't hunt. I wouldn't push for that. And would suggest that if the gun-control crowd does, you proverbially shoot yourself in the foot. It would open Pandora's box and if applied equally, would have to be aimed at the manufacturer of any item or substance if that substance or item was intentionally used in the attempted murder of anybody.
5. Ok. (Your version of my prayer and counseling sort of ideas). What about psychotropic drug prescriptions being flagged in background checks? I mean with ACA Government will have that info, won't they? Or could easily enough.
6. Or train more killers. I'd prefer shooting course completion to purchase a lethal weapon.
7. Ok (again your version of my prayer and counseling points).
How about a sin tax on the video, music, tv, and movie industry? Or do they get a free pass?
8. I am not fond of simplified memes like that, particularly when they give false impressions. My earlier posts have shown clear enough, that I wasn't advocating doing nothing, or letting the perfect get in the way of the good, or that I thought there's a magic bean. Quite the contrary.
9. Being okay with background checks (despite not having as high a view of the goodness of fallen human beings once they wear a government hat), I'm okay with supporting a candidate that does. No problem.
