Here is the gun safety message we have to do our best to communicate to the public.
No one is proposing to take away all guns. No one is proposing to repeal the Second Amendment. If that is what you believe the GOP and the NRA have succeeded in doing what they set out to do, which was to brainwash you.
What is being proposed is what a vast majority of Americans, including Democrats, Republicans, independents and even gun owners already agree with. First, background checks for everyone who buys a gun, no exceptions. That means no guns for terrorists, felons and the violently insane. Second, no military weapons of war. That means no machine guns or "bump stocks" that turn ordinary rifles into machine guns. It also means no AR-15, Kalashnikov or Uzi-type firearms (military assault rifles) with muzzle velocities so high that bullets don't just pass through internal organs but turn them into surgically-unrepairable mush. Third, no magazine capacities higher than nine or ten rounds.
That's about it. With these laws in place the possibility of mass slaughter will be sharply reduced. Australia put these kinds of rules in place after a massacre in 1996 and hasn't had one since.
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