Guilty on your predicted knee-jerk reaction. A person shot in a mass shooting is still a person shot who didn't need their life interrupted in that manner.
I still believe the best way to reduce gun violence is to just take away the guns, then require gun users to carry firearms licenses and register and insure their weapons for liability damage, just like cars, which kill even more people than firearms. Then add a Federal surcharge of $100 per bullet; the government will never have to raise taxes again. But I know confiscation won't work in this country, and I've already written my Senator with a rewritten Second Amendment. So I suppose I'll have to wait for whatever replaces the current united states for something more reasonable.
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I still believe the best way to reduce gun violence is to just take away the guns, then require gun users to carry firearms licenses and register and insure their weapons for liability damage, just like cars, which kill even more people than firearms. Then add a Federal surcharge of $100 per bullet; the government will never have to raise taxes again. But I know confiscation won't work in this country, and I've already written my Senator with a rewritten Second Amendment. So I suppose I'll have to wait for whatever replaces the current united states for something more reasonable.