re: #143 A Mom Anon

I can see that,but then why not keep all that ammo at the range if it was for target practice then? From what I remember,some gun ranges will allow you to store guns and ammo in a locker or safe(at least that was the case back when I was young,single and owned both a pistol and a shotgun)on the premises if you wish to as part of membership. Beyond that,there is no reason on earth anyone needs that many weapons or rounds of ammo. At the very least the sellers should have to red flag such purchases and notify law enforcement.

I think there have got to be some rules implemented here. I am not anti-gun but I am anti-unregulated firearms. We have rules in a civilized society and they can be implemented without taking away the right to own a gun for hunting or even self protection. A system similar to what we have now for learning to drive and being licensed to operate a car,commercial truck or motorcycle wouldn’t be a bad thing and neither would registering every gun.(if you sell the gun,then you have to transfer title,just like a car) We have the infrastructure in place for that,it’s just a matter of organizing and properly implementing it.

One of the usual tropes trolled out by the usual fools is that guns are just a tool, just an object, and it’s the people that are bad. That’s pretty obviously false on its face. We regulate other dangerous objects and behaviours. Such regulation is not perfect or 100% effective, but neither is making murder illegal. Any other dangerous object gets treated accordingly, but not guns. Because guns aren’t just an object in the US, they are sacred fetishes. And the price of this particular religion is thousands of lives lost, tens of thousands more permanently altered, and thousands of families devastated.

Imagine if we treated terrorist attacks like gun massacres. There’d be no security checks, no rules about what you can bring onto a plane, and if a bomb went off or a plane got hijacked every month, we’d all shrug, tut-tut about it, and go about our business. And any mention of maybe not allowing everyone to carry weapons onto planes or maybe walk through a metal detector occasionally would be considered the foulest heresy. And idiots would say ‘well, you can’t stop terrorist attacks, so why infringe on our rights?’