OK, 2nd Amendment Repeal is a bit too Ambitious, But

there are some things that I think common ground can be found by all who are appalled by the terrorist carnage that our insufficient gun regulation allows.

Universal Background checks and gun registry for semi-automatic weapons that are not otherwise outlawed.  If you want to own a military style weapon, you have to be willing to be called up on quick notice with your weapon to defend the United States and the United States must be knowledgable about that willingness.  And no one under 21 would be allowed such a weapon and if they possess such a weapon, the parents are legally responsible for any and all legal ramifications of anything that transpires.

A effective mandatory process for getting the mentally ill and violent people with restraining orders against them into a database that supports the Background checks.

Make any mechanism that turns a gun into a more automatic weapon illegal.

People who are on terrorist watch lists should not have any rights to weapons.

People should not be allowed to purchase more that one gun a year.

There are 300 million guns in America and only 15% of the population owns all of them.  That is an average of 6.2 guns per gun owner.  How many more do they need to purchase in any one year?

I would also like to see no legal ownership of any gun more powerful and rapid than what any policeman carries.  A policeman should not be outgunned.

5 Year's After Sandy Hook

I just don't understand.

This country suffers gun violence on such a frequent basis and nothing is being done to address it.

Yes, the Sandy Hook parents are trying to work on educating people about how to identify people at risk of doing such horrible things.  That is good.

But, you can still buy unlimited number and types of weapons in certain states in order to sell them in states where that is not legal.  And the NRA and the GOP want to allow that and concealment of such weapons anywhere including states where it that is illegal.

Why do people need weapons that can be made into machine guns with bump bump stocks?

Why do people who are terrorists, criminals, abusers and other violent people, allowed to buy guns no matter what their personal history?

Why are people allowed to buy semi-automatic weapons that they can adapt to fire faster?

Why are people allowed to buy hand-guns that they can conceal and frighten policeman to the extent that they shoot anybody they fear may have such a gun?  Even when the victim shows no move toward such a weapon.

This Congress will not do anything.  I can only wait for enlightened people to be elected.

Who Knew, US Gun Laws Fuel Illegal Immigration

I just finished reading a book about the flood of undocumented children that presented themselves to Border Police in the summer of 2014.  These children would still be coming except the U.S.A. under Presidents of both parties have convinced Mexico to prevent them from transversing Mexico to arrive at the U.S. border.

There is much to be heartfelt about the story of these teenagers who really just want a safe place to live, grow up and be useful citizens to the country in which they reside.  But the really awful thing is how U.S. policies promoted by Conservatives have a direct link to creating the environment that forces these children to have to make a life or death decisions and both paths are high risk.

For the most part, illicit drugs are illegal in the U.S.  Many of these drugs are produced in South America.  While the Mexican cartels have been leading traffickers of these drugs, this activity has now been muscled into by gangs further south in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.  So it is U.S. demand for illegal drugs that fuels criminal activity in these countries.

These gangs are violent and they have ready access to weapons sold in the U.S.  The U.S. has no effective controls on gun purchases thanks to the N.R.A. convincing any number of states to allow unlimited purchases of these weapons by a single individual.  And the N.R.A. also has killed any effective control of automatic weapons.  If these gangs can smuggle drugs into the U.S., they can smuggle guns the other way.  And boy do they ever.  They are violent and unafraid of any police in their country because they have more money and guns than the police do.

Because there are rival gangs, the gangs suffer losses and need new recruits.  They try to force children to join them and if the children don't agree to, they are intimidated and frequently killed for daring to say No.  So the children have a stark choice: (i) stay and be killed or (ii) flee to the U.S.,  be potentially harmed or turned around along the way in Mexico, and if they make it to the U.S., face a hostile government that wants to send them home to be killed or become a gang member.

And these gangs have an impact on life in the U.S.  The gangs from those countries have outposts in the U.S.  Barrio18 &MS-13 have been shooting up certain towns in Long Island the same way they do in their native countries.  Trying to intimidate kids into joining them or killing them if they say no.

Now I will admit that is the U.S. demand for these drugs that provide the money that causes all this.  But the War on Drugs was started by Richard Nixon and is now almost 50 years old.  Might it be time to start discussing legalization and treatment for addictions?  I think so, but not with Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General.  He thinks all drug users should be thrown in jail.  Even Chris Christie thinks that is nuts.

But the U.S. has to do something about the availability of guns in bulk purchases.  There are reasonable regulations that would do nothing to harm the average American's ability to buy another weapon while protecting society from madmen and criminals.

"Stop the Carnage"

I quote President Trump.

How about banning assault rifles and automatic pistols?

Terrorism & Lack of U.S. effective Gun Control are kissing cousins

When means of death are readily available, there is little law enforcement can do to protect citizens from random acts of violence.

I am not advocating people stop going about their daily activities.  Randomness, means that most people will be safe and only the unlucky ones will be caught in those random acts of terror.

But there is little difference between a radicalized Islamic terrorist with little economic hope and a young caucasian American male who finds sexuality and growing up in a competitive social environment frustrating; with the result that both try to kill numerous number of the people who they perceive cause them grief.

So how does a Belgium terrorist get bomb making materials?  How does an American teenager get a semi-automatic weapon?

And what Donald Trump and Ted Cruz want to do is torture Muslims and flood their neighborhoods with police.  Yet, Belgium did flood the neighborhood with police and the bombers went somewhere else.  Only if we defend law abiding Muslims and provide them with equal economic opportunity, will we get their cooperation in turning out the bad ones who live amongst them.

Just as, absent effective gun control, we need to provide disturbed teenagers with support and encourage their friends to both help them and provide intelligence.