Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Reportedly Trump has the same instinct, until the NRA reps pay him visits to quell it.



"Take the guns first, go through due process second" - Donald Trump


Hey, what you can say about the man is that he's a New Yorker born and bred. Among the other things that can be said about him.

But I do think our gun culture madness is something that ironically has to be carefully taught, it goes so far against normal human psychology. Or maybe once everyone is made out as your blood enemy it's natural no one would submit to being "disarmed" by the enemy.

So of course the statistical core of the gun problem is the level of availability and supply, with pistols being the biggest day-to-day risk factor.

Canada's government has just proposed halting nationally the sale and transfer of handguns, which the Federalist SCOTUS would never permit here. Something that could at extremity, in theory, garner a minimum level of Republican support is another component to Canada's proposal, which is restricting firearm access to those with convictions for harrassment and domestic violence (which are in fact very prominent indicators of propensity to gun violence). And since a preponderance of gun crimes are perpetrated by young men with no or little criminal history, raising the age of majority with respect to purchase/ownership from 18 to 21 is another decen small-bore proposal (arguably needs to be even higher...).

It's all nibbling around the edges of course, and might have been viable a decade ago, before it became a partisan consensus that any putative restriction on firearms is just a ploy by the liberal Marxists to suppress White Christian liberation.
What's the argument against following through with the Second Amendment and requiring registering of all firearms, as per a well ordered militia?