How do we stop the shootings when there are soooooooo many guns out there?

[a kennedy]

[RKP5637]

1. Excellent question. It's an epidemic, I often wonder the same. n/t

[ellisonz]

2. We need to stop coddling the gun culture!

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. for starters, remove a bunch of the guns.

Mandatory registration in all states, and most especially at gun shows.
Make gun manufacturers liable for the mayhem. People who make things whose purpose is to kill other people should face substantial penalties when someone uses the weapon ot take a life.
Require licensing to own and operate a gun. Being caught without a license would be a felony.
Require legal, gun owning, citizens to register all guns (even collectibles) and buy insurance to pay for any mayhem caused by that gun.

Weapon's manufacturers are massive ugly corporations whose business is murder.

[HooptieWagon]

4. Yep, lets also hold automakers responsible for drunk drivers.

And we can hold cutlery makers responsible for stabbings. No need to stop there, lets hold the subway builder responsible for the guy who was shoved on the track and killed last week. Perhaps most important, lets hold the parents of mentally ill people responsible for the violent acts of their creation.
Holy freakin' schmidt, if you want some sensible effective gun controls, as I do, then that's not the way to open the dialog.

[Logical]

5. This question will get you called either a "gun nut" or a NRA supporter!

[RomneyLies]

6. Start by making certain weapons illegal to possess.

Make it a felony to possess them with mandatory minimums of many many years.

Give a one year grace period to turn in existing examples of these weapons to the FBI or local law enforcement.

Then, after the grace period ends, make examples of anybody idiiotic enough to hang onto the weapons.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Perhaps we should start by asking why there is so much violence

[Mel Content]

8. create a more equal society.

that seems to be the big secret.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

9. Here's one idea

Make it a federal crime to discharge a firearm in public during the commission of a crime and punishable by life in prison.

This circumvents the knuckle dragging GOP state legislarures who would never go that far on their own. It would not stop every true believer moonbat like Lanza and that shit stain in Aurora, but it would peel off some of the fringe nuts and domestic violence types.

No one law is going to solve this. It's going to take legislation and a will to change our culture.

[a kennedy]

12. So many of them kill themselves though.....so life in prison doesn't mean a thing to them.

It's just so complicated.

[JI7]

10. you have to start somewhere, maybe we coudln't have stopped all of them

but maybe some ?

[JI7]

11. we could say something similar about the "war on terror"