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The Dad Who Won Landmark Supreme Court Gun Case Proposes 6-Step Solution to End Gun Violence
goodmenproject.com ^ | 8/7/2015 | Matt Sweetwood

Posted on 08/11/2015 9:56:02 AM PDT by rktman

So, I propose the following 6-step solution, which will likely displease both gun-rights and anti-gun folks alike.

There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners. 7-day waiting period before a gun is purchased and background checks on every purchase. Elimination of unregulated gun selling / trading events. Every gun sold needs to be in the Federal registry. There should be a set standard for gun ownership. Currently, it is left in the discretion of local authorities who sometimes error incorrectly either way. If you have committed an aggravated felony you can’t have a gun. If you have mental health issues you get a hearing to determine your status. If you don’t fall into those categories, you can’t be denied a gun. Let’s do as the Israelis do. Currently, here in the USA, most sports arenas have searches on the way in. That needs to be effectuated on any public place where there are crowds. In Israel, you can’t enter a movie theater, bar, mall, etc., without bags being searched and wanded by a metal / bomb detector. Most gun crimes are committed by repeat offenders. There needs to be mandatory minimum jail sentences for any crime committed with a gun. Sell drugs while carrying a gun and get 10 years in prison – do it again, get 20 years. We need to let the bad guys know, gun crime gets you real time.

That is a pro-gun, reasonable gun control law, anti-violence, and pro-constitution solution. If both sides would actually get out of our ideological trenches we could make that happen. This article has inspired me to send my 6-step method to my Congressmen and Senators from New Jersey – while not holding my breath, waiting for a positive response.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol; infringement
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Yeah, that federal data base should work out real swell. Idiot. Reasonable my butt.
1 posted on 08/11/2015 9:56:02 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
That is a pro-gun, reasonable gun control law, anti-violence, and pro-constitution solution.

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only control of (already) law abiding citizens.

2 posted on 08/11/2015 9:58:10 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: rktman

“There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners. 7-day waiting period before a gun is purchased and background checks on every purchase.”

I propose the same restrictions on the First Amendment right to Free Speech.

Meaning this jerk has to apply for the right to exercise his rights, and be logged by the Feds whenever he speaks.

Which makes his proposal illegal: He didn’t get registered by his Superiors at the Federal Government before writing.


3 posted on 08/11/2015 9:58:25 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We need a consistent fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative)
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To: rktman

“There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners. 7-day waiting period before a gun is purchased and background checks on every purchase.”

I propose the same restrictions on the First Amendment right to Free Speech.

Meaning this jerk has to apply for the right to exercise his rights, and be logged by the Feds whenever he speaks.

Which makes his proposal illegal: He didn’t get registered by his Superiors at the Federal Government before writing.


4 posted on 08/11/2015 9:58:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We need a consistent fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative)
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To: rktman

This peckerwood may get a positive response from NJ politicians, but there is nothing reasonable about any of this garbage. Just the same old recycled tripe


5 posted on 08/11/2015 9:58:56 AM PDT by 5Madman2 (Practicing random acts of Douchebaggery whenever possible)
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To: rktman

What a frigging tool


6 posted on 08/11/2015 9:59:04 AM PDT by clamper1797 (If stupidity hurt ... liberalism would be agonizing)
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To: 5Madman2

But, but, but. He said right at the beginning of the piece that he’s pro-gun and pro-constitution. Then again, the lyin’ king is a constitutional scholar. LOLOLOL!


7 posted on 08/11/2015 10:01:00 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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What is the registration going to do to reduce gun crime?

How would mandatory sentences help? Don’t people already know that murder gets you a serious vacation in prison?


8 posted on 08/11/2015 10:01:59 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rktman
There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners.

Stopped....reading.....right.....there.............................

9 posted on 08/11/2015 10:02:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: rktman

Hey, what about taking an oath to der Furher?


10 posted on 08/11/2015 10:02:29 AM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: rktman

Nothing new. He must want another 15 minutes of fame.


11 posted on 08/11/2015 10:02:54 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: rktman
There needs to be a Federal data - FAIL!!
12 posted on 08/11/2015 10:03:13 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: rktman; All

There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners. 7-day waiting period before a gun is purchased and background checks on every purchase. Elimination of unregulated gun selling / trading events. Every gun sold needs to be in the Federal registry. There should be a set standard for gun ownership...yada, yada, yada


13 posted on 08/11/2015 10:03:45 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: rktman
Trials, convictions, and punishment (with no plea bargaining to a lesser charge) for those who (especially violently) break the law using guns is The Solution.

But such a Solution would be opposed by traitors in the Just-Us Department and other leftist traitors in our federal and state judicial systems, and the traitorous demonicrats who infect our nation's juries.

14 posted on 08/11/2015 10:05:01 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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He won the case but now he wants to set up Confiscation scenario.


15 posted on 08/11/2015 10:05:28 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
“There needs to be a Federal database of all guns and gun owners. 7-day waiting period before a gun is purchased and background checks on every purchase.”

I propose the same restrictions on all abortions!

16 posted on 08/11/2015 10:05:47 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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>> If you have mental health issues you get a hearing to determine your status. If you don’t fall into those categories, you can’t be denied a gun.

In modern America, that is the catch-all. Tell your doctor that you’ve been feeling blue and you will be defending your “right” to own a gun.

Go to the VA...
Go on disability...
Be diagnosed with a disease that might cause depression...
Call your EAP at work...
Talk to your pastor about your unhappiness...
Post something on Facebook...
Tell a friend...
Get a divorce...
Lose a spouse or child or parent...

And, finally, do nothing and have a doctor think that you might be “hiding” a mental illness.


17 posted on 08/11/2015 10:06:46 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
It is sure as hell not a pro-Constitution "solution."

"the RtKaBA SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. The wording makes it absolute. Everything this guy proposes is an infringement. "Infringement" is not a synonym for "pro-Constitutional."

18 posted on 08/11/2015 10:08:14 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: driftdiver
What is the registration going to do to reduce gun crime?

Well, with a database in place, it would be quite easy to confiscate all the guns. No more guns, no more gun crimes!

Oh, wait. I doubt if the cartels and the gangs would be carrying around any registered guns.

19 posted on 08/11/2015 10:09:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: rktman

Hey, here is an idea. Execute anyone committing a felony and using a handgun during commission of the felony.

Rob a bank, shoot into the air with a gun, run out with cash, get caught, tried, executed.

Selling drugs, while carrying a gun, get caught, tried, executed.

After a little while, people would wise up and stop using guns to commit felonies. Those who don’t wise up need to be eliminated.


20 posted on 08/11/2015 10:09:56 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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