My ideas for sensible gun control

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25. Thoughts...

1. The primary reason we don't have this already is that people understand the ultimate goal of those writing gun control legislation is to ban the guns, so they don't want a national registry, or the ability to track the ownership of a firearm. Most people agree those things would be beneficial if they were never abused, but very few guns can be matched to owners in the US.

2. We already have this, all new firearms sell with locking devices today. People are charged with negligence today.

3. Agree, but people (and states) are going to disagree on who does or does not belong on that list. Most of these tragedies aren't perpetrated by people who've had their civil rights stripped for cause.

4. No opinion.

5. Negligent discharges are already prosecutable.

6. Many states have licensing requirements already, and gun safety courses used to be taught in American high schools, it would be a very good idea to standardize education on gun safety and the legal requirements and moral responsibilities of gun ownership and self-defense.

7. The capacity of a magazine has very little impact on effective rate of fire. Magazine changes are easy by design, the best selling semi-auto handgun design in America has a capacity of 7-8 rounds. If someone was really motivated I'm sure they could achieve a high sustained rate of fire in a mass shooting with antique cap and ball revolvers. If you limited handguns to "natural capacity" manufacturers would just make higher-capacity handguns. Limiting rifles to five rounds faces similar issues, it doesn't alter the situation very much. There are hundreds of millions of high capacity magazines in the US, creating legal jeopardy for using one will deter the law abiding, but not the nuts. Banning features doesn't really address the problem.