Not making fun, but all of this seems like them pushing the cart a little farther down the confiscation road. All the while, shoving a whole lot more pork down our throats.
These are not serious proposals to reduce deaths from gun violence, the problem is not addressed in any significant manner. This is akin to spending great sums and applying draconian regulations to control “climate change”.
It is a fools’ errand, and worse, extraordinarily expensive to boot, for no discernible future effect. What is being proposed is much like scattering a ring of salt to prevent the entry of demons. First, the demons are not even identified or defined, and secondly, how do the magic spells and “recipes” employed have any known effect?
Identify and isolate the crazies known to have a propensity for violence in our society, and give them the treatment they so desperately need. This faux concern for their “civil rights”, which has led to the mass deinstitutionalization and release upon the streets of those with little capability of dealing with simple social situations, has led to these intemperate responses and massive overreactions of those of diminished mental capability.
The fact is, many of these people LIKE the very intense rush of emotion and catharsis of their release of personal demons, but it is a little hard on those in proximity to them when it finally erupts. Tales of putting restless children on medications to damp down these impulses, as a means of “controlling” behavior, only affect the surface, and do not delve into the inner demons that drive them in the first place.
A loaded gun, cocked and with the safety off, and simply laid upon the table, harms no one, and would not in a thousand years, in which time, it shall have crumbled to rust and the action frozen, the very cartridges themselves decomposed and eroded to uselessness. It is inert, incapable of harming ANYONE, until a conscious effort by somebody is exerted, and it is raised, aimed and the trigger pulled.
The factor here that must be controlled, is the person who picks up the gun, aims it with malice, and pulls the trigger. Self-control, breath control, steadiness of hand and aim, and control of conscious selection of target, are all means by which the weapon does no harm to another human being.
And that involves familiarization, together with serious training in the proper use and maintenance of hand weapons.
None of this is addressed.