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> if so many gun owners really do support sensible gun control laws Would you be willing to outline what you count as sensible gun control laws and what you ho
by Veelox 9y ago
> if so many gun owners really do support sensible gun control laws
Would you be willing to outline what you count as sensible gun control laws and what you hope to accomplish with these gun laws?
- QuadmasterXLII 9y agoFirst off, legalizing CDC research into gun violence seems like a reasonable step
- Veelox 9y agoI think that would be a great first step. For it to be acceptable it will need to be very careful to ensure the privacy of gun owners.
- matte_black 9y agoWhile I’m all for unbiased, scientific research on gun violence, I have little confidence that it won’t just become the liberal’s version of climate change denial.
- ac29 9y agoThe CDC was never explicitly banned from researching gun violence, though the Dickey Amendment "outlawed spending tax dollars on gun control advocacy", which made it difficult to determine what sorts of research might be allowed. This was recently clarified to explicitly allow gun violence research, though that still isn't funded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/03/22/house-budget-says-cdc-can-study-gun-violence/?utm_term=.d44ad3a60f65 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoLook at Germany’s gun laws. Way saber than the USA.
- Veelox 9y agoNot German, can you explain what Germany's laws are and how it makes them safer than the USA?
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoStorage laws are super strict, police can and do come in your house to check that you have your gun in your safe. You aren’t supposed to lose it, or let anyone else get ahold of it. Psych evaluation required for those under 25 (to cut down on school shootings), more restrictions on fuller background checks and so on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany
- Veelox 9y agoI would be for (and think it could pass) psych evals for those under 25 if we paired it with allowing anyone over 18 who passed to buy guns. We could do better on background checks but the devil is in the details. There is no way police checking storage at any time would pass at the federal level and I am doubtful it would have a noticeable effect on gun deaths but I could be convinced otherwise.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoWe already allow anyone over 18 to buy guns, without the psych evals. > There is no way police checking storage at any time would pass at the federal level and I am doubtful it would have a noticeable effect on gun deaths but I could be convinced otherwise. German statistics say otherwise. I love how pro-gun arguments are always "Ya it worked in country X, but it wouldn't work in the USA because we are third world" or something like that.
- Veelox 9y agoThere is currently a restriction for selling handguns to people under 21. >German statistics say otherwise. I completely believe that the totality of German gun laws help reduce gun deaths. What I am specifically unsure of is how police checks of storage influence gun deaths. My initial assumption is that they would cause a <1% reduction in gun deaths but I don't have any data backing up that assumption so I could be persuaded that it would have a larger effect.