I agree with some of the pro-guns here who mentioned the fact that semi-automatic guns have been responsible for far much lower number of deaths than hand guns. The stricter regulations of these more powerful semi automatic guns would not, therefore, change much in the number of deaths.
Hence, I believe that we must improve regulations that affect all guns. The majority of Americans killed every year by guns are from hand guns. The debate should not focus on the powerful guns only but on all guns if we are serious about the outcome for a safer society.
Video games, parenting skills, crazy people …etc could be the starting cause for these senseless mass killings. But it is the guns that provided the easiest and most effective tool to carry out the killings.
Don’t be so proud about you being a “responsible owner” of guns. You may never know and no one can really control fully of their emotions 100% of the time. If you are a robot, we can think otherwise, but human nature does snap at time and will snap with the easiest readily tools available.
Does anyone think that the mass murderer at Newtown thought that he was the bad guy and that he was irresponsible with his gun?
I support raising the tax for gun purchase/transfer to a very high level very similar to the extra tax on tobacco sale. For years, cigarette companies have lied to their teeth about the safety of smoking and have killed the smoker directly and the non-smoker indirectly.
I support also the application of a system for training, licensing for guns use and the requirement for liability insurance purchase.