Here's a simple solution to the Gun Problem

[GliderGuider]

This was written by a friend of mine, of the feminine persuasion. I love her idea - it's original, simple, and takes human nature into account. It's also every bit as workable as every other Gun Solution I've read.

All proposed current gun regulation in the wake of Orlando is going to be ineffective. There's a very simple solution. There is nothing wrong with guns - they are a practical and safe tool in the right hands. The problem is that they are so often in the wrong hands, that is, men's hands.

Overwhelmingly, women are safer gun owners than men. They almost never commit mass murder (not never, but in statistically meaningless numbers). Women are much more likely to use guns to protect themselves than to hurt an innocent person. When women use guns, they pretty much average out to the NRA's claimed responsible gun owner. Men on the other hand...

The simplest of all gun regulation would be that making it a felony for all men to own, use or handle guns, without the supervision of a licensed and responsible woman. Licensing would be simple - tits? You got it.

You can still hunt - you just have to take your Wife or Mom or Sister. You can still have a gun for protection in the house, but you have to leave it in your female roommate's possession. Which given that statistically women are most in danger from men, and often from the men in their lives (I know, I know, you aren't like that), would probably make your average woman a lot safer.

There would be no gun regulation at all. She can have a machine gun, an assault rifle, a rocket launcher - 10 of each!. She can have it on 15 minutes notice when she's PMSing....because somehow she probably isn't going to kill anyone anyway.

You get the weapon of the gender you identify with, which of course, will lead to a influx of conservative NRA men who pretend or actually do consider transitioning, and now have to walk into the men's room in N. Carolina in a skirt. I mean what isn't to love? I feel quite comfortable allowing genderqueer and ambiguous folk to fall on the gun ownership spectrum as well - we are, after all, a nation with a second amendment and we must be just, rather than discriminatory. We just don't have to be stupid - men have to go back to clubs until their gender shows collectively that they can handle guns.

[tymorial]

1. I loath guns

but I'm not interested in men bashing. this is pathetic.

[anoNY42]

2. Would be somewhat offensive if it came from a Republican:

The idea that you are only considered a woman if you wear a skirt...

"You get the weapon of the gender you identify with, which of course, will lead to a influx of conservative NRA men who pretend or actually do consider transitioning, and now have to walk into the men's room in N. Carolina in a skirt. "

[ileus]

3. My DW has her CHP, but what about when she's not with the me and the kids?

She decided to get here CHP without any input from me, bought her first AR while I was away on business. FWIW she's the ultimate epitome of the progressive 2A gun owner.

But this proposal has the same problem the "you only need 911" folks have, it's leaves me an easy willing victim.

[GliderGuider]

4. Why do you see yourself as a victim?

When so many other men with children do not? Do you live in an especially dangerous place?

[ileus]

7. It only takes once....why take the risk?

[GliderGuider]

8. Here's the flip side

A good friend of mine, with the same beliefs as you have, came within a trigger-twitch of killing his wife's son in the middle of the night when the kid arrived home from a party. Why should his son have been exposed to that risk? After all, as you say, it only takes once.

I'm Canadian, so I don't have the same acculturation around 2A as Americans do. I don't see self-victimization (which is how I interpret your belief system) as something that can be prevented by drawing a pistol. You may chalk my attitude up to ignorance if you wish, but I just don't get it.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. So men with gynecomastia get guns too?

[GliderGuider]

6. That would at least be some compensation for having such a humiliating condition...