I don't think any further gun laws should be enacted, with the possible exception of repealing concealed carry laws in a few states. The argument that "good guys" carrying guns deters bad guys from using them can't be supported if the bad guy doesn't know the good guys walking around have a gun with them. There are laws already on the books which would take care of the problem, if they were properly enforced. That, and ending the registration bypass loopholes, accompanied by police sweeps to pick up guns without legal registration, would resolve the issue. If you want to own a gun, and you walk in to a sporting goods store to buy it, you shouldn't be able to walk out of the store with the gun in your hand until your background check paperwork has cleared.
Gun advocates love to cite Switzerland as an example of a nation where private gun ownership is higher than in the US, and yet it is a country without rampant gun violence, shooting and especially mass shooting. But if Switzerland's gun control legislation that is on the books were enacted in the United States, the NRA and its constituency would be screeching like stuck pigs. And on top of everything, there is a 65% tax levied on the assessed value of guns each year, to cover the cost of the additional law enforcement they feel they need to protect their citizens from gun violence. They are a great example of what can happen when a government tightly controls gun ownership and spends the money to provide the necessary oversight, instead of giving it back to its wealthiest citizens in the form of tax breaks.
The NRA is an overblown propaganda balloon. In this last election, with all the money they laid out for the campaigns of their political supporters, they were less effective than Karl Rove's American Crossroads in electing candidates they supported.
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