DC's gun laws are only ineffective because guns can be brought INTO the city, despite the laws WITHIN the city. 1% of gun stores are supplying 57% of weapons used by criminals. If we had federally mandated background checks and mental health screenings, or any policy that would work, gun free zones would be the SAFEST PLACES YOU COULD BE. Gun control stops these weapons from being sold to criminals! But the far-right paranoid idiots want you to believe that small changes in our gun legislation is somehow a bad thing.
I think you should be able to have a gun in this country, and if we are able to stop these mass shootings, I see nothing wrong with the ownership of semi-automatic sporting rifles.
You just went full retard.
We already have background checks. A criminal can just ask someone to buy the gun for them, which is illegal.
Why do you think we can stop school shootings? They're on the decline actually, so why don't we keep doing what we're doing and trends will keep going, which is that school shootings are less likely to happen.
Every heard of the gun show loophole? Private sellers? Gun stores that haven't had ATF inspections in 17 years? Gun stores that literally make their own rules?
[quote]We already have background checks.[/quote]
The problem is that the database has gaping holes in it because submitting info of dangerous people who should not have guns is voluntary.
What good is making everyone get a background check if there's no info?