so people kill people, guns just make it easier and simpler?
so whats the solution? without it being to autocratic and dictatorial?
Licence the owner and register the firearm.
Getting a gun licence shouldn't be anything more complex than:
1) Showing you don't have a criminal record. (Any convictions for contact crime (theft, rape, assault, murder) disqualify immediately)
2) Showing you can hit a target at a reasonable distance.
3) Showing that you understand firearm law, specifically when you are allowed to use said boom stick.
Gun registration should be similar to buying a car. You take the gun you want to buy and the form with the previous owner's consent to buy it. The firearm control officer then makes sure the firearm's registration number matches the one on the system for the previous owner, and then transfers the firearm to you. Then every 5 years, you just have to rock up to the police station and the firearm officer checks whether the serial number of the guns you have still match the ones on the system.
That is absolutely it.
With that in place, in a violent country like SA more law abiding citizens will buy guns to defend themselves. Which makes it orders magnitude more dangerous to commit a mass shooting.
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