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In reply to the discussion: Nothing is off the table--No idea is too stupid to consider [View all]moondust
(19,993 posts)50. Study Australia and U.K.
Last edited Fri Oct 2, 2015, 02:13 PM - Edit history (1)
and others and adapt their real-world success stories to the U.S. The wheel does not have to be re-invented.
Of course some other countries may not have a long history of settling scores with guns in a Wild West frontier and cowboy movies, and may not have a history of using guns to slaughter the natives and take their land.
Maybe the government could also issue penis extensions so some little boys could get some respect and feel superior without the threat of death.
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Nothing is off the table--No idea is too stupid to consider [View all]
Evergreen Emerald
Oct 2015
OP
Change the laws that men wrote 300 years ago by writing new laws? Easy. Just need the will, and if
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#2
Canada. Australia. U.K. Pretty much anywhere in the West that the NRA does not exist. Obviously.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#5
Is the population of Brazil not also Homo sapiens? I will have to research that.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#7
Hunting licenses are down across the board and I think *we* could get more than 4.5 million
Hestia
Oct 2015
#102
You're the one who suggested that no one would want to change the First Amendment
branford
Oct 2015
#47
Who really thinks the 2nd Amendment would be "done away with"....
virginia mountainman
Oct 2015
#110
Heck, how would blue, yet rural, states like Vermont, Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire, etc. vote?
branford
Oct 2015
#112
No, we all are entitled to feel that way, considering that is our Constitution.
Thor_MN
Oct 2015
#101
Our gun laws are obsolete. They were meant for a different era, not for the 21st century. n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#3
Papraphrasing your idea: vote the bums out of office who are owned by the NRA
Evergreen Emerald
Oct 2015
#11
Newtown parents have been doing that - showing up at the opening of Congress with the
Hestia
Oct 2015
#104
Yes they are and yes they do involve "deadly weapons" and Due Process could be satisfied
Evergreen Emerald
Oct 2015
#62
You may very well be right on driver license, I haven't read a driver handbook in over 40 years,
GGJohn
Oct 2015
#86
Right. People here need to look at the Second Amendment's home page. They're like ALEC in their
ancianita
Oct 2015
#113
Well said. One pathway is new judges on SCOTUS, and a new gun legal case to bring before them.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#34
I support a ban of handguns and all rifles except for bolt action hunting rifles
tabasco
Oct 2015
#44
1. Many thousands of shooters already make their own bullets. Limiting ammunition would
Enthusiast
Oct 2015
#52
Talking with my local beat cop last night, he reiterated what he's been saying since I've known him
LanternWaste
Oct 2015
#54
That'll take years to work with the already stored ammo out there. Besides, thousands know how
ancianita
Oct 2015
#114
I'm sure that will work for the week it takes for criminals to develop a work around
Taitertots
Oct 2015
#121
But, you don't stop making laws just because people will break them.
Evergreen Emerald
Oct 2015
#133
At this point I'm not sure there is a cure that won't be worse than the disease in the long run
Fumesucker
Oct 2015
#66
I think to an extent you are correct, but I do not think it is futile.
Evergreen Emerald
Oct 2015
#67
Just looking at a thread where it's "proper procedure" for police to beat an elderly stroke victim
Fumesucker
Oct 2015
#118
Require every friggin gun in the USA to have a GPS tag; develop for all schools and public
kelliekat44
Oct 2015
#60
"would you rather that we all had tanks and grenades at our disposal?"
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2015
#137
President Obama, who taught constitutional law, says it protects an individual right.
hack89
Oct 2015
#188
Want to change people's minds about guns? Start publishing photos from these massacres.
frizzled
Oct 2015
#74
If showing fetuses on operating tables is OK why not the horrifying deaths of children by guns?
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#75
The problem is that, thanks to publicity, gun massacres are on the minds of young people.
Chemisse
Oct 2015
#79
It's a wonder hw some people get to work in the morning, or to the grocery store,
Thor_MN
Oct 2015
#97
OK...Nurture culturally relevant coming of age rituals like Shamanic hunter/gatherer societies have.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#116
Unfortunately the phrase "gun control" causes these people to not hear you anymore.
GreenEyedLefty
Oct 2015
#144
Opening up the NICS to private sellers has always sounded like an excellent idea.
Waldorf
Oct 2015
#170
How about we treat young men who want guns like we do women who want an abortion?
riversedge
Oct 2015
#161
Such a proposal is prima facie unconstitutional under Heller and McDonald. nt
branford
Oct 2015
#180