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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
But how do get anyone who owns an unregistered gun to register it? The paranoia with most of the folks who own those guns runs really high.
Can we agree that universal background checks as part of the gun buying process is a pretty sound and reasonable thing? After the Newtown School massacre this came up for debate once again.
Well, it was quickly shot down, again, because of the NRA and the fear instilled in the Pro Gun groups about how that would be "giving an inch".
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the incentive to get registered mostly comes from the fact that having an unregistered firearm would be a crime, and if caught with one you'd be charged.
obviously there are tons of guns out there that we will have to deal with regardless. i'm not saying this system fixes all gun problems
but it aims to stop the flow of new illegal weapons from the legal market. which i would consider a pretty big improvement.
edit - yea i'm fine with background checks... but iirc the newton kid used his mothers guns to go on that rampage. really this system isn't designed to address the mass shooting phenomenon. cause i really don't think there is a way to stop people like that from going off randomly. or at least not that i can think of... feel free if anyone else has any ideas about that.
the registry/database/accountability system thing i'm talking about is aimed more at limiting the potential of the criminal underworld to arm themselves. i mean look at what's happening in chicago.