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In reply to the discussion: The latest murderer [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)at all times where their guns are stored, and if the registration, as I said, involved checking on the character of the gun-owner, we might be able to keep the numbers of guns in the hands of unstable people and/or criminals under control.
Remember. Guns were created for one purpose: to kill.
That doesn't mean they necessarily are only used to kill, but all of the other uses of guns are derived from the central purpose of killing (animals or humans).
We all know that guns in the wrong hands are extremely dangerous.
In an ideal world, I would place the responsibility for figuring out how to keep guns out of the wrong hands on those who advocate for guns. And if they could not execute that responsibility successfully, I would severely limit access to guns.
Of course, we don't live in an ideal world. So we can't do that. Gun owners (including sellers) still need to remember that when their gun ends up in the hands of a killer of humans, it is the gun owner's fault.