Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "CNN"
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I take the same position, more or less. I grew up in the country where the sheriff's department might come in 45 minutes if you called them, but sometimes the next day, or not at all. So we had to provide for our own defense. We also needed guns to hunt and to shoot coyotes, etc that were trying to kill our livestock. In the city, you might want a gun for protection. But we need a culture of RESPONSIBLE gun ownership and laws that require that responsibility. There are responsible gun owners and the law should emulate what those people already do, plus the restrictions talked about in this video.
What I'd do: 1. Government would pay for training courses required for gun ownership, with annual recertification mandatory. Government pays so that poor folks can afford guns, too. Number of weapons per person would be limited to three. 2. No open carry and no concealed carry. Keep your guns under lock and key. 3. Raise the age for all gun ownership to 21. 4. No high capacity magazines or armor piercing bullets sold to the general public. 5. Red flag law so that you can report people who are mentally ill, but they get a hearing to protect their rights.
The aim of this isn't to take guns away from people, but to shift the culture towards responsible ownership, which is what all rational people want.
As for assault weapons like the AR-15: You don't need them for hunting nor for self-protection, and I'm not going to take anyone seriously who claims they do. I'm done wasting breath on the tiny minority of gun nuts who'd get bazookas and rocket launchers if they could.
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