High gun ownership makes countries less safe, US study finds

[billh58]

19. At the risk of

pointing out the obvious, you are repeating an outright lie propagated by the NRA and other hair-on-fire gun proponents who keep repeating the falsehood that "Democrats are coming for your guns." We mean old Liberal Democrats are neither coming for your guns, nor your fire extinguishers.

Like your puzzling fire extinguisher analogy, gun control proponents are not advocating the confiscation of your guns. We only want you to keep it in your home, be responsible and accountable for it, register it, not "bear" it in public, and pass a national background check before purchasing each gun. We would also like to see a limit on how many guns may be purchased in any given time frame with possible exceptions for bona fide private collectors.

We would also like to see a ban on the manufacture and sale of rapid-fire weapons with high-capacity ammunition capabilities. We believe that there is no justifiable reason for these types of weapons to be owned by civilians.

When 80% of convicted felons admit to obtaining the weapons used in the commission of their crimes from private sellers, it should be obvious to everyone that there is a problem with the accountability for lethal weapons in this country.

MAIG, VPC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, The Brady Campaign, and many other gun control proponents are gaining momentum with and support from the American public for a return to sane gun control laws, and in making the corrupting right-wing influence of the NRA politically impotent.