Pro-gun advocates will never have a rational discussion about gun laws and the 2nd Amendment

[billh58]

104. Just like the term "pro life"

right-winger Republicans have used the term "anti gun" to frame their NRA bullshit. Being "anti-gun" implies that I dislike an inanimate object, when in fact the correct term should be "pro gun control."

Now that we have that cleared up, let's consider the registration of ALL fucking guns so that responsibility can be assigned to the rightful owners when they are used to commit a crime. Failure to register your gun will result in heavy fines and impounding the firearm until registration is accomplished. Once all guns are registered, a national database can be developed and cross-checked against restraining orders, felonies, and other forms of anti-social behavior.

Then we can start to work on more stringent background checks, longer waiting periods for purchases, and reinstating sane gun-free zones (hospitals, schools, public gathering areas, etc.).

30,000 Americans die each year from wounds inflicted by guns. And before you tell me how many people died from knives, spoons, pitch forks, planes, trains, and automobiles, explain how that lessens the total number of people who died because of guns? Guns are designed for one purpose and that is to kill living things. Just because they are sometimes used for "practice" and "sport," they remain perfectly designed instruments of death and that is why violent people choose them to kill living things instead of knives, spoons, pitch forks, etc.

The 2nd Amendment does not prohibit the strict regulation of firearms, nor does it bestow an absolute right to carry a gun anywhere, anytime. Sane gun control needs to be returned to the pre-NRA Republican "good old boy" levels and maybe even made a little tighter.

Gun dealers and collectors should be held to an even greater degree of accountability, and licensing. Just as we require auto insurance, gun owners should also be required to carry insurance against injury and death from their weapons.

P.S. I was in the Army as well -- in Vietnam, so I believe that I too have a "unique perspective."