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The solution is obvious. Since stolen guns mainly from homes is one of the four major ways in which guns move from lawful ownership into the criminal world, safe storage laws are necessary.
Recently, I posted what I consider to be the proper gun control laws, including safe storage in the home.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Sure, sure, just send inspection teams out to check on us. How are you going to enforce such laws? Violate due process? Presumption of innocence?
ReplyDeleteHow about longer sentencing for anyone who commits a crime with a gun? That way, we don't have to go down the registration and inspection road, and we put away people who do actual harm, as opposed to good citizens.
ReplyDeleteGreg,I agree, but I go further. If you are convicted of committing a crime with a gun you will go to jail and you will never get out.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that the Federal Government imposes a mandatory 55 year sentence on anyone involved in the illicit distribution of a Scheduled Narcotic, who was in possession of a firearm while the transfer of the narcotic occurred.
DeleteFor example if one deals a Schedule I substance such as marijuana in a "medical marijuana" "dispensary", one may face the mandatory 55 year sentence, if one maintains a firearm on ones premises.
I wonder if the policy that "Retired Mustang" advocates (mandatory life without the possibility of parole for those who commit crimes involving firearms) would be applicable to drug users, as it is an offence under 18 U.S.C.§ 812 which prohibits the possession of firearms by an unlawful user of a CDS and such a punitive sentence may be utilized to put medical marijuana users away for life. Such would be useful against social insubordinates like Gary Johnson.
Rev. Jim, didn't you know, once you own a gun you're never innocent under Mikeb's mindset. In fact, anyone who isn't Mikeb is a horrible, horrible person and should be incarcerated, Mikeb is king and god, didn't you know that? All hail the stupidity that is Mikeb, may he soon be hit by a fully loaded fuel tanker.
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, Storage laws will do nothing to prevent another lanza type shooting. One of my friends lives in a home with (gasp!) guns and when he was only 18 his parents went out of town for a weekend, his dad gave him the code to the safe, and told him to use the guns to defend himself if someone broke in. A decade later, the code is still the same. So I ask you, assuming my friend had a psychotic break or what have you, what would prevent him from getting those guns from the Safe Storage facility? People who live with guns know how to get them, and that will never change.
First of all, your description of me is way off. I would own guns again myself if my situation warranted it.
DeleteSecondly, your whole pitch is based on that one friend and his knowledge of the safe combination? That doesn't sound right.
Safe storage laws would indeed prevent some of the Lanzas out there from getting the guns.