Yesterday I reviewed the arguments for gun control and if your following you know I’m not convinced. But I also don’t want crazy people with guns shooting people.So here are my two ideas:
First allow (encourage) states to require that before a person can buy a gun they have to have gone through a training program that teaches them gun safety. The instructor of the class would have to certify that the student is not likely to do anything stupid with a gun. We already do this with drivers licenses so it is not a particularly onerous requirement. And there would be no need for registrations or master lists.
Second stop having “Gun Free Zones”! Keep the criminally minded guessing.
Wikipedia has a lot of facts about gun deaths and it turns out that mass shootings account for only 1% of the total. Suicide accounts for roughly 65% and homicide the other 34%. In 2013 about 32,000 people died in the country from guns. In the same year about 40,000 people died in automobile accidents.