Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

the incentive to get registered mostly comes from the fact that having an unregistered firearm would be a crime, and if caught with one you'd be charged.

obviously there are tons of guns out there that we will have to deal with regardless. i'm not saying this system fixes all gun problems

but it aims to stop the flow of new illegal weapons from the legal market. which i would consider a pretty big improvement.

edit - yea i'm fine with background checks... but iirc the newton kid used his mothers guns to go on that rampage. really this system isn't designed to address the mass shooting phenomenon. cause i really don't think there is a way to stop people like that from going off randomly. or at least not that i can think of... feel free if anyone else has any ideas about that.

the registry/database/accountability system thing i'm talking about is aimed more at limiting the potential of the criminal underworld to arm themselves. i mean look at what's happening in chicago.

Originally Posted by grindy

In Germany there's a law that says guns have to be kept in a safe at all times, and it has to be a serious safe, nothing you can open with just a little key. There was a school shooting a few years ago, where it turned out that the perpetrator's father didn't secure the guns as well as he should have and if I remember correctly he got sued the **** out of him.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

So what happens if he needs the gun? Spin that lock quick as a mother****er?

Originally Posted by grindy

Oh we don't use the guns here, we just keep them in safes and enjoy the thought of having them.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I guess you'll be ****ed, but at least your money'll be able to blow that sucker away.