"We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children"

[thefool_wa]

51. Here is what I support

Armories. Privately constructed and run, legally obligated, 24 hour accessible armories that people are forced to keep their "assault weapon" classified armaments in, stored in individual lockers, accessible to only the people who rent them. Yes its an additional expense, but it also opens up a new private market (something that is always good) and allows private citizens to own the weapons they choose to own while forcing the ones that are kept for "militia purposes" to be kept in a building that has legislated design that will keep the weapons from being stolen by those who would use them for harm.

Sporting and handguns can still be kept at home.

I don't think this is unreasonable (though I know the far right will, and regardless of what anyone I have interacted with here today may suspect, I am NOT a far right winger or a "gun nut", just someone who believes we shouldn't sacrifice any of our rights for the illusion of security). IN fact, I think it is closer to a solution that outright bans ever will be because it takes the weapons that are already out there out of the homes they can be stolen from.

It should be noted, however, that even this measure will do little to affect the actual safety of the world. The unfired weapons in that guys pocket that weren't assault weapons (the hand guns), even with only 10 round mags, would have done equal damage. However, if we are playing the "we have to do SOMETHING" game, THIS is what I support.

I hope this at least partially alleviates anyone's fears that I am some kind of psycho I am not, I just love my country, and my rights, and am tired of having them stripped away.