Shooting At Annunciation Catholic School In Minneapolis

@specman You should put it in quotes: "register."

A name and a serial number go on a slip of paper, which is accumulated with millions of other slips of paper. And if the cops recover a gun from a crime scene, they send a request to a national office, and dozens of people start fingering thru slips of paper, looking for a match.

It's designed to be terribly inefficient. its designed to make it easier to hide gun crimes. Why? Because that's what the NRA wanted: more gun sales, no matter how they're ultimately used.

We register every car and license every driver, and we put all that data in electronically searchable databases for quick law-enforcement access.

Why not do the same for guns??

@ElwoodBlues yes you’re right, but I still don’t think it will stop the criminals

@specman Over time it will reduce the number of guns going to criminals and increase the cost. It's a 1 hour bus ride from Chicago to Gary Indiana. Indiana doesn't require registration or a permit for a handgun.

So it's pretty simple for a kid from a gang in Chicago to go buy a gun in Gary. Better registration and licensing laws would raise the difficulty factor.

@Northwest Not the same then, but your point remains absolutely relevant.

@FreddieUK
That's just the problem. If you have to ask yourself "which mass shooting are you referring to"...

@FreddieUK Seems as if you're also. There was another mass shooting in Minnesota yesterday. Can't keep up with it.

@trollslayer And Vance has the cheek to "pray" for the victims.

It did them no good.

Banning guns, however, would be more effective.

@Adeptlinguist you caught on to my under radar double intention of the word “pray”. I did’t want to make the obvious “praying is not working” comment.

@specman
I would like to ask you back to wake up in 2025, not 1776 when you had muskets and the government had muskets.

The fact is that your argument holds no water in 2025, but I get up, some people love to make up excuses to justify their weapons erotic fixation.

@specman So you're saying it's a deliberate policy to sacrifice school children to shooters in order for you to hang onto a security blanket of a cache of guns?

You are deliberately sacrificing the lives of over two thousand American children per year to prevent universal gun registration and licensing??

@ElwoodBlues are you making double comments on this? Lol

@Adeptlinguist " No normal person needs a gun." No normal people wants a gun in the house. Demonstrating how few "normal" Americans there are.😷