Science fiction
Researchers claim 3 gun controls would stop 90% of gun deaths:
The three measures linked to substantial drops in firearms-related deaths were: universal background checks for firearms sales, background checks on those buying ammunition, and a requirement that gun owners get their firearms microchipped or fingerprinted for identification purposes.
Uh huh. Sure thing, sparky.
March 11th, 2016 at 5:23 pm
90 percent of the gun deaths are perpetrated by people that don’t abide by gun regulations now. Think they’re going to abide by new legislation?
“Forget it Unk, it’ California.”
March 11th, 2016 at 5:43 pm
I read the article about this at the washington puss and all I could think was “then the guns will be three laws safe just like in Asimov’s robot utopia.”
March 11th, 2016 at 7:56 pm
How about background checks for morons who come up with ideas like that?
March 11th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Um, 75% of gun deaths are suicides, which none of these ideas would stop in any way, shape, or form. In other words, yet another anti-gun lie.
March 11th, 2016 at 11:13 pm
Hmm, let’s see
1. Murder is illegal.
2. Suicide is illegal.
3. And we’ll make another of the above even more illegal.
There, three laws that will do as much good as anything they propose.
March 11th, 2016 at 11:43 pm
Well, graduate students have to come up with some sort of research project to write the thesis, and the dissertation. Buried in the article was the real researcher conclusion:“The findings suggest that very few of the existing state gun-control laws actually reduce gun deaths,” Kalesan said.
Yep. So, let’s have MORE! How about, instead:
–timely, public, capital punishment for intent to kill murder;
–universal firearms safety and familiarization instruction
–strengthen self-defense laws
–stop government funding of narcotic and other mind-warping drugs,
and, those will reduce “gun deaths.”
March 12th, 2016 at 12:04 am
This is a way of preparing the battle space for current California Lt Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed magazine and self-loader ban Initiative that is supposed to be on the November ballot.
They’re spreading the BS so the lies can grow tall and fruitful…
March 12th, 2016 at 12:21 am
MJM – “universal firearms safety and familiarization instruction”
Just like universal secondary education has created a more well educated society? nope.
March 12th, 2016 at 9:16 am
Once again, “Gun deaths”.
Who gives a sh*t if the guy who wants to kill his girlfriend can’t get a gun so he just uses a knife instead.
Any time “gun deaths” is the measure it should be automatically denounced and ridiculed as nothing but a ploy and misdirection.
March 12th, 2016 at 11:02 pm
Dear Uncle,
It will work, long-term
Because once that happens, we’ll ‘need’ to only impliment …
Universal Registration followed by
Universal Confiscation followed by
Universal Execution, by firing squad (since only the , villains, uh government, will have firearms) for illegal firearm possession
Sincerely, Someone You Know
P.S.
Remember, the anti-freedom (gun control) movement is playing the long game.
Just like terrorist, we have to win all the time while the terrorist only have to win once. SYK
O.K. That’s a little hyperbole, but you get the point.
March 13th, 2016 at 10:49 am
Just like Honda Accords, the best selling cars in the US, are the most stolen car in the US because there are more of them!
Yes, instituting laws that make it more expensive and harder to obtain a firearm will result (over decades) in relatively fewer gun deaths because there will be fewer guns around. This will be true, say, in 50-100 years, when rust and neglect have eliminated 20% of those around now. And if no more guns are produced, there will be fewer guns around, and thus fewer guns will be used to cause death. QED.
An easier, quicker, and more effective (by orders of magnitude) way to reduce gun crime, gun violence, gun injury, and gun death, is to populate prisons for long terms with those who use a gun in commission of a crime. This method also avoids infringing on the rights of those who do not use guns in a criminal manner.
Since the more effective method is being ignored, one has to question the purpose of the proposed actions, which are not nearly as effective in achieving the proposed goal. I think there must be some other unstated goal these folk are trying to achieve.