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>>826697
This is indeed one of the reasons to bring back the militia membership requirment.
A well-organized group with a code of ethics is a much greater force than a single "good guy with a gun".
Imagine someone starts popping off in a supermarket, as usual, but then someone shouts "Militia, threat on aisle ten" and six or seven people take positions, guns drawn.
Is an active shooter going to keep it up with no way out?
Also: let me point out that I am keenly aware that I am describing the work of the police, I simply don't expect them to do it.
>>826698
Those are the militias we have today. Ignored by their local goverments, let to run amok and recruit nazis and successionists. We could have better militias.
I propose the militias regulate their members, and the states regulate their militias.
I'm imagining a statewide organization that would have monthly meetings (mandatory attendance perhaps once a year), be required to provide various weapons training courses (which is also a source of self-funding), with a certain minimum for gun owners to complete within their first year of ownership.
This organization would have a liaison with the state police, a liaison with the national guard, and be accountable to the governor.
I would hope that, in time, states could offload the responsibility of regulating their local gun control to these militias as well: have the militia be responsible for licensing vendors, certifying owners, deciding whether open or concealed carry is best for the public, etc. while the state controls the overall industry by regulating manufacturing and imports.
>>826699
I appreciate that you make an effort to converse about it. This sets you far apart from many who hold similar views. As >>826705 points out, choosing debate has become a rarity in American society.
As for punishing criminals, the US has one of the largest incarcerated populations in the world, both per capita and the simple number of people in jail or prison.
What we aren't doing is punishing the people responsible: How did criminals get those guns? Where did they come from? The whole chain needs to be held accountable. If it's black market arms dealers, put them away forever, if it's a pawn shop that got robbed, take away its owner's license to sell firearms until better security measures are in place, if its a private citizen who "lost" their gun, put them in jail for at least half the sentence of the person who used it in a crime, if they obtained their weapon legitimately, then the regulations are not sufficient and must be tightened.
Gun ownership needs to be taken much more seriously. Instead of responding to each new travesty with the same tired arguments and lack of action, we ought to be doing something every time, whatever it may be, to reduce the possibility that this event will reoccur.
Unfortunately, there are far too many people, backed by a lot of bribery, who would rather kill every chance of having this conversation on terribly outdated ideological grounds.
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