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* Require gun insurance and make gun purchasers criminally responsible if the guns they buy are later used to commit a crime. * Provide incentives to encourage

* Require gun insurance and make gun purchasers criminally responsible if the guns they buy are later used to commit a crime. * Provide incentives to encourage people to rent guns if they are going to shoot recreationally at a gun range. This could be accomplished through a flat tax on guns owned by individuals, combined with storage and tracking requirements for guns at ranges. * Basic GPS tracking would seem easy and straight-forward, and reduce the problems with stolen (or "stolen") weapons. * Repeal the second amendment. Any gun ownership should be based on efficacy and maximize safety. Currently gun ownership can not be optimized because it does not have a defined aim.

Zak 14y ago
Basic GPS tracking would seem easy and straight-forward, and reduce the problems with stolen (or "stolen") weapons. How do you prevent people from disabling the GPS when the gun is stolen or "stolen"? It seems like it would be pretty difficult to make a GPS tracking unit that couldn't have its power source disconnected. If you managed that, it's fairly easy to destroy electronics. A few seconds in the microwave usually does the trick.
- rundmc 14y ago
  The point is that if you introduce legislation that makes it manadatory for weapons to be location aware then this allows certain other features such as de-activation of "hunting" rifles etc. within urban environments and so forth.
  - Zak 14y ago
    Aside from the technical difficulty of designing such a system and making it difficult to bypass, that sounds like a solution in search of a problem. People firing rifles of any kind in urban environments, whether by accident, for self defense or to commit a crime is quite rare. Handguns are the weapon of choice for both criminal use and lawful self defense in cities. I suppose you could disable those too, but the effect on crime would be similar to banning them: criminals would still have working guns and non-criminals wouldn't.
monochromatic 14y ago
How could GPS tracking possibly work? I mean everything you just said is laughably misguided, but the GPS thing shows a lack of technical understanding of both GPSes and guns.

Zak 14y ago

Basic GPS tracking would seem easy and straight-forward, and reduce the problems with stolen (or "stolen") weapons. How do you prevent people from disabling the GPS when the gun is stolen or "stolen"? It seems like it would be pretty difficult to make a GPS tracking unit that couldn't have its power source disconnected. If you managed that, it's fairly easy to destroy electronics. A few seconds in the microwave usually does the trick.

rundmc 14y ago
The point is that if you introduce legislation that makes it manadatory for weapons to be location aware then this allows certain other features such as de-activation of "hunting" rifles etc. within urban environments and so forth.
- Zak 14y ago
  Aside from the technical difficulty of designing such a system and making it difficult to bypass, that sounds like a solution in search of a problem. People firing rifles of any kind in urban environments, whether by accident, for self defense or to commit a crime is quite rare. Handguns are the weapon of choice for both criminal use and lawful self defense in cities. I suppose you could disable those too, but the effect on crime would be similar to banning them: criminals would still have working guns and non-criminals wouldn't.

monochromatic 14y ago

How could GPS tracking possibly work? I mean everything you just said is laughably misguided, but the GPS thing shows a lack of technical understanding of both GPSes and guns.