Six gun regulation ideas

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30. Apparently he also had mental issues.

I honestly have no easy solutions to this problem of mass murders in public places and especially gun free zones.

As long as we allow the civilian ownership of firearms we will have this type of incident caused by those with extremely serious mental issues. We will also continue to have criminal misuse of firearms even if we make all firearms illegal to own.

However banning all firearms and confiscating them is impossible at this time in our nation. First considering the make up of our nation, many representatives in our Congress come from red states and the blue states do not have enough votes to pass a ban and confiscate law. Even if such a law passed the current Supreme Court would overthrow it.

Another assault weapons ban might stop the sale of newly manufactured semi-auto pistols and rifles but there is already an enormous quantity of such weapons in our nation. Since in many areas the registration of firearms is not required, the government has no idea who owns what weapon.

I know you believe that civilians should not be allowed to legally carry firearms in public. I don't see evidence to prove that this practice has led to a tremendous increase in violence in our nation. Since Florida first passed "shall issue" concealed carry in 1987 and it spread across our nation, the violent crime rate has fallen to levels last seen in the late 60s. I don't attribute the drop in crime to firearms or legal concealed carry but it is a fact that in recent years the sale of these weapons has skyrocketed and yet the crime rate has fallen. More guns may not cause less crime but more guns obviously does not cause more crime or in the last decade the crime rate would have skyrocketed along with the sale of these weapons.

Basically there are no easy fixes to stopping incidents like school shootings. The most logical idea I can come up with is to have a requirement that any area deemed gun free that houses a large number of people have adequate armed security present as a deterrent.