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Sieggy -> RE: I have a solution to the legal and illegal gun problem. (1/27/2013 8:01:48 AM)
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Logical Solutions:
Require all firearm owners to clear background checks for criminal records. Construct and maintain a federal' no guns' list in the same manner as the 'no fly' list. Allow avenues for appeal, but if you're on the list, you are not allowed to purchase or possess a firearm. If you are on the list and are found in possession of a firearm, you go to prison.
Require all firearms to be registered. If you are found in possession of an unregistered firearm, said firearm is confiscated and you are charged with a misdemeanor. If the unregistered firearm turns out to be stolen, you are then charged with a felony. If the firearm can be proven to have been used in a crime previously, the owner shall be charged as an accessory in that crime.
If you sell a firearm, you are required to notify LE that you no longer possess that weapon, and are further required to inform LE of the identity of the purchaser. Failure to do so makes you culpable for any crimes involving the use of the weapon you sold.
Straw buyers should be prosecuted vigorously. If you buy a firearm in order to illegally transfer it to another, the buyer should be charged as an accessory in whatever crime that firearm was involved and handed a lengthy prison sentence.
Gun dealers should be subject to inspection, auditing, and the same oversight to which your local pharmacy is subject. There should be computer access at gun shows so that purchasers can be vetted on the spot. Sale of a firearm by a dealer to someone on the 'no gun' list should result in the loss of ALL of their business licenses and confiscation of their entire inventory. We need to make the penalties for illegal sales so draconian that NO reputable dealer would even consider violating the law. Disreputable dealers needs to be put out of business and into prison.
Require all firearm owners to carry insurance on their weapons. Failure to carry such insurance should result in confiscation of all firearms until such insurance is carried.
Require firearm owners to be culpable for any injuries caused by a firearm they possess. If you leave a gun out, and a child picks it up and an injury / death occurs, the owner is charged with criminal negligence as well as the charges of manslaughter / assault.
Eliminate bail / bond for anyone charged with a violent crime involving use of a firearm; use of a firearm in commission of a crime makes the defendant ineligible for any form of early release, and prosecutors should be barred from any plea bargaining. If you use a gun to commit a crime, you go to jail until you are either acquitted or have served your sentence in full. Further, if you use a gun to commit a crime, you will serve your sentence in its entirety without ANY possibility of early release - no parole, no probation, period. If you're a criminal who uses guns in criminal activity, you need to go away for as long as the law permits.
Institute Florida's 10-20-Life policy nationally. Use of a firearm in commission of a violent crime gets you a 10 year sentence that will be served BEFORE you begin serving the sentence for the crime of which you were convicted. Fire the weapon, and it's 20 years. Hit / kill someone, and it's life without the possibility of parole.
I have no problem with law abiding citizen having guns. However, that means they actually follow the law. People who decide that they disagree with the law and therefore refuse to obey the law are, by definition, no longer law abiding citizens, they are criminals. If you decide that you don't like any of the gun laws and ignore them, you're a criminal, and I have zero sympathy for you. Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. Those who are irresponsible, negligent, mentally unstable, or criminal should never be allowed to possess firearms. If they insist on doing so, they need to be removed from society for the protection of its citizens.
Responsible possession and use should be encouraged, and irresponsible use should bring down the full weight of the law. If you're a responsible, law abiding citizen, no problem. If you're no, BIG problem.
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