I have had it with this.

[Nimzabaat]

Personally? I love my guns, I love my country, but I would make it a point to add a new license into the works, if you want to buy anything more concealable or high powered than a hunting shotgun you need to take a mandatory gun safety course, psych eval, and a few hours on a range, make this last 5 years before needing renewal, and reselling to someone without said licence is a criminal offense. And have this be at the purchasers expense.

That way the responsible gun owners can buy their guns, enjoy them, but it would help to alleviate the more tweaked individuals from getting their hands on them.

Beyond that the healthcare system needs a good reform so said tweaked individuals get the help they need before they snap, because no matter how hard guns are to get, those tweaked fellows WILL find a way to kill others if they want, hell you can make dome very potent pipebombs from home-depot and google.

A good thing to remember, is that a gun, like a hammer, knife, or bomb is an object, it has no will or actions of its own the thing that gives these things purpose and makes them a weapon or not is the mind which wields them. And it is important to make sure that the mind behind the tools is steady

That puts you in among the responsible gun owners. The problem is that there are others who would call such a license "restrictive" and "against their constitutional rights". Until those people come around to a more reasonable way of thinking, such as your own, there will continue to be problems.

As an aside; Please don't use the "gun is the same as any tool" defense. A gun is a weapon with only one purpose, to kill things (not necessarily people). It was not invented or designed to shoot cans, paper, balloons etc. It was not meant as a paperweight until someone picked one up and shot something by accident and discovered an all new use for it.

As an other aside; Anyone have any guesses on what the next "thing" will be? Today it's video games. It used to be rock music. I dunno what they thought set Jack the Ripper off, maybe "saucy literature"? So what could the next "we don't want to put the responsibility where it belongs so let's blame the current entertainment" thing be?