Not saying you can't own guns, but we're stupid about it - the red states more stupid than most. The politicians and the NRA have denutted any kind of sensible approach to gun ownership. It's easier to get and own a gun than to catch a fucking fish or drive. You should have to have insurance and - yes - REGISTER your weapon. If that meant a repeal or REVISION of the second amendment, then so be it.
That's just it. It would mean a repeal of the second amendment. And gun grabbers know they don't have anywhere near the votes to do that, so they've been chipping away at it with unconstitutional state and local laws that are in direct contravention to the second amendment, upheld by judiciaries of similar mind - because most people only like the constitution and its amendments when it agrees with them.
If you think a state or city should be able to pass a law to in any way restrict the ownership and carrying of any firearm, then you must also logically support city and state implementation of restrictions of the right to vote based on sex and ethnicity - because that was a constitutional amendment, too.
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That means no registration, no insurance.
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Okay deaths as opposed to murders. Dead is dead is dead. Doesn't change that they are too easy to get and too easy to use irresponsibly.
Suicide rates are irrelevant to the discussion. I can name 20 things in my office I could kill myself with, it doesn't mean the government has the responsibility or right to infringe my access to those things using that as justification.