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134. What I want to know is...

... what do people who champion private gun ownership propose to do about the 30,000 Americans who die every year using the weapons that they champion?

It seems to me that the ball is in your park. Personally, I have a simple solution: follow the example of the civilized, developed nations of the world and regulate the hell out of personal firearms. It's a tried and tested solution that has worked for every other country that has adopted it. Gun owners are the ones who do not wish to see their access to their deadly toys restricted. Gun owners are the ones who want guns. You want them? Fine. You come up with a way to stop the killings with their beloved toys.

Yet one never hears any such proposals coming from the gun community. All one ever hears is excuses, how such and such can't be done, or it wouldn't accomplish anything, or it infringes upon their precious RKBA, or it's not their fault, it's all the fault of criminals and bad apples whom everyone agrees "should never have been allowed to have a gun in the first place." Except, of course, the day before that "bad apple" shot up a school yard, s/he was a "law abiding, responsible firearm owner" whose right to own and use that firearm the gun community fought to protect. You guys need to once and for all own up to the fact that what you are fighting for includes access to lethal weapons by persons who have no business having them. You are the ones preserving these people's access to lethal weaponry. You are the ones supporting the NRA and its fearsome army of lobbyists, the ones who are voting against candidates who support responsible gun control legislation, the ones who support laws to keep these weapons of mass destruction freely and widely available with no constraints. Fine, you want these atrocities out in our communities? Then it's your responsibility to come up with a way to stop these killings. If you are not willing to assume responsibility for your toys, you have no right to have them as far as I'm concerned. There's no such thing as a free lunch, no right without responsibility. So what are you going to do?