I look forward to responses from y'all!

'Especially pistols' is leftist code for: today we take your military style rifles, TOMORROW we take your pistols.
While I favor strict gun laws, when you use terms cut and pasted from DNC propaganda you look uninformed or worse.

Oof, my apologies. Didn't want to make it sound like that. I'm all for people having rifles as long as they're responsible with them. Hell, if someone knows how to properly and responsibly use a grenade launcher and happens to own one, then whatever. It's people who do dumb stuff like rob a bank or shoot up a public place that are the problem, not the people who can own and use a firearm responsibly.
I think the reason I used the wording I did was because most people who have a gun bring just a pistol or two with them in everyday situations. It's not like you see someone with a rifle just waltzing about the street every day. Was trying to make it more relatable, accidentally made it more alienating. :/

You sound like a very reasonable person. Thanks for the meme.

Thanks to you too for commenting!

I think that computers and cell phones should only be available that are trained to use them and prove stable enough to do so, after a substantial background check of course.

After all, when the first amendment was written, the only thing available was the Guttenberg printing press. You could print a few thousand documents to distribute to a few thousand people. Now, millions of people could see this comment the second after I press "Post Comment".

Pffff, fair point.
Thing is, words can be fought with without any immediate danger. Guns, on the other hand, are usually a lot easier to physically hurt someone with.
Someone stutters a few words or mispronounces something, usually nobody gets hurt. Someone forgets to aim a gun properly and now there's a stray bullet going God knows where. (Albeit if they're smart they'll make sure their potential line of fire is clear by a healthy margin)
I'm in full support of making sure people who can safely and competently use a gun have the right to use it. But if some tricksy idiot or unstable psychopath get a hold of one, they can cause a lot of damage.
The reason the second amendment was originally put in the Constitution was to outline a preventative measure against a dictatorial/authoritarian shift in the government, along with personal protection. To take something like that away is to take away someone's optional best line of defense against an assailant, governmental or personal.
Not everyone is going to have a gun on them when someone threatens to shoot them. If over half the population carried a personal firearm on their person at all times, then maybe there might be less casualties from a mass shooting. But that's not the case, and so people are at a severe chance of death until someone can return fire. And it's not like we can just give everyone guns.

I feel something on similar to a driving test could work well, in terms of preparation, safety, and longevity. Not too intrusive on everyday life, but you have to be deliberate and serious about knowing how to operate the implement, and then get renewals/checkups every like 5 years or so to show you're still capable. That's like 14 renewals in your entire life if you get one when you're 18. It wouldn't eliminate gun violence entirely, but if you need something like a "general firearm license" to purchase ammunition, then people who are serious about owning a gun can still own guns and purchase ammunition for them, but people who buy a gun specifically to go killing people can't really do so on a whim. It's all about implementation.

Sooooo, what would you suggest? I'd like to hear what you guys think.
Again, going in here blind, so sorry if I seem a little too liberal, I just want to see what people who generally identify with the other side of the so-called 'spectrum' have to say on the matter.

Addendum to my previous comment, it appears some concealed carry permits already give all of these as criteria, so basically if you only give ammo to people with concealed carry permits then you're good. So long as someone doesn't illegally give ammunition to someone without a license. But that's like letting someone who doesn't have a driver's license or learner's permit drive a car. It's not common because you'll both be in for it if you get caught.
I'm not gonna pretend I haven't shot a gun more than like 3 times, but overall I think requiring a concealed carry permit as a way to limit ammunition purchases while maintaining general freedom regarding firearms could add decent constraints to gun violence while also making sure that people who are competent and serious about things can still use them no problem.

Buuuuut I'd still like to hear what your suggestion is.

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Nice! XD

This meme and the comment section is so goddam civil I'm upvoting everything. There is quite simply nothing more refreshing than an exchange of views without petty insults.