1. Guns should be banned, period!
2. Using both hands, that's gun control!
3. Mental health screenings in addition to traditional background checks, etc.
4. Other: ___________________________________
2007-04-19 15:31:51 · 15 answers · asked by fox3bhc 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
4. Register all guns, put chips in them. Mandatory jail time for last registered owner when any gun is used in a crime (up to one year for murder). This includes sales, gifts, stolen, whatever.
All of a sudden, all those guns will not end up in the wrong hands.
2007-04-19 15:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2007-04-19 22:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by Matt S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm one of those "crazy" people folks like to be afraid of, and guess what, I'm a married, middle aged woman with a college degree living on disability (and hubby's retirement income and savings) and I sew doll clothes for little girls. I also go deer hunting with my husband every fall and shoot woodchucks in the yard when they raid my vegetable garden. I'm such a MENACE to society!! Every time someone goes off and does something horribly violent, somehow I have to be answerable for it as a scapegoat, one of those bipolar mentally ill people you all are afraid of. MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE ARE NO MORE VIOLENT ON AVERAGE THAN PEOPLE WITHOUT MENTAL ILLNESS. It is discrimination and fear that makes people label us as crazies. I just cry a lot and think about dying a lot when I am really really depressed, and then we put the guns someplace else! I would NEVER shoot anyone, in fact, the shooters are always male. Maybe we shouldn't let young men have guns anymore, that is the answer. . . I don't know how you can screen for rage and hostility, that is the problem, not mental illness per se. I mean, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were mentally ill!!
I'm sure you know a lot of mentally ill people, they just don't speak up, they hide when these horrible things happen. Please don't scapegoat mentally ill people. I cried when I heard what happened, I used to be a TA so it was easy for me to visualize what happened.
2007-04-24 23:13:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
#2.
Honestly, the problem with the situation in VT was that this guy was just normal enough to fly below the radar. This won't be the last time either.
Be careful of the myth's about gun control. Europe isn't without gun crime and it is rising, not lowering.
We need to work on our society by remembering to be polite and treat others with respect. This will go much further than some rhetoric and more government enforcements into our private lives
2007-04-19 22:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by Talen 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
2 ,,,, I pack a gun, but I can't acess it unless on private property. So it stays in the trunk of the car, or on the dash board, for legal reasons.Until I finish transport. Then it is back in reach. The only reason I don't have a concealed carry permit is pure laziness. I qualify in every way. I am a law biding citizen, and I have to protect my 92 year old Mom in an urban environment. Fortunately in my state, I would be able to mount a defense in court if Mom was attacked and I defended her. with deadly force.
I truely hope I will never have to use a gun against another human being. Most gun owners feel the same. I only bother, as do most, to defend my loved ones.
Doesn't really matter. If you think I would let some bozo idiot cut short her life after 92 years of struggle, think again. Shoot Me?: Go ahead, but threaten my Mom, Honey I'm A Dead Eye. Don't try any home invasion on her house, I will kill you. What ever the law is, I will deal with that later, but in t he meantime, My mom will be safe and who ever threatened her will be dead. That is how it goes.
2007-04-19 23:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by character 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2 & 3
2007-04-19 22:42:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, 2 and part of 3. I think we do need SOME REASONABLE laws regarding gun control. More regulations than what we have would be rediculous. The political version of "gun control" is the reason that so many people died at V-Tech. No, I don't think everybody should have them. But people NEED to be able the exercise the right of self-defense. I agree -- the stats speak for themselves. ARM AND EDUCATE!!!
2007-04-19 23:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by David S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2.
2007-04-19 22:39:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
2, 3 & 4. Death Penality for Killers, Registering Criminals in the same manner as Sex Offenders.
2007-04-26 15:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by Eldude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I VOTE NUMBER 3!!!!
I think that would be the saftest and easiest way.
It would also cost a lot less then banning guns.
2007-04-26 19:40:56 · answer #10 · answered by James G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋