Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
That's like saying we shouldn't have police because there will be murders no matter what.
Making it a severe criminal offense to sell a gun to anyone who hasn't undergone a thorough background check would be a start. So would elevating any offense committed with an illegally obtained gun to a Class A felony (some states do this; guess which, red or blue).
I don't accept the "We can't stop it, so we may as well do nothing" argument in any context. I think that we could severely lessen the number of gun deaths in this country if we stifled gun love and gun culture. For too large a swath of this country, having a penis, er, gun is the ultimate symbol of being a manly man. What it actually is, is the ultimate symbol of idiocy.
Let's start with making whoever sells a gun to a mass-murdering psycho be charged as an accessory to the crime.
We, here in WI, can't even stop auto theft which is going crazy in Milwaukee. Our court system is a total joke. How in the world are we going going to enforce any of what you suggested above? I'm not saying I'm not for it either but who is going to enforce it? They don't even investigate car jackings. And we are a blue state and Milwaukee dark blue.