Thread: Potential Ban/Brady Bill part deux?

The problem with this issue is that it appears to be a hot button issue for many so there is generally not a lot of open-minded conversation on this subject.

There's plenty of slogans but less substance.

Gun control isn't (as has been rightly pointed out) the only issue that should be coming out of the recent school shouting however it is a reasonable subject to discuss.

It is reasonable to at least ask, discuss, consider whether smaller magazines, slower methods of firing and certain limitations on use and ownership might be appropriate.

Most other countries mentioned as having lots of guns and low violence (involving guns) generally have many more restrictions than the people mentioning these realizes.

Quotes by Jefferson are revered mainly because he is saying what the person quoting wants to hear. If another founding father believed in high taxes or for guns to be locked up except upon invasion or whatever they wouldn't be quoted nearly as often.

Most of the restrictions being talked about now and in the past (in my limited knowledge) would affect someone protecting against an intruder into their home nor would it have much to do with how a hunter uses his guns.

Until the current "craze" is over I'm sure it would be a good idea for at least a few guns to be in a school (principal, some teachers) but I'm guessing a better long-term solution to this and the gun violence in the U.S. in general would be to be able to consider some limitations without it turning into a bigger deal than it is by pushing peoples "hot-buttons".

I'm right in the middle of this debate rather than on one side or the other. I do own 2 pistols.