>1) As a prerequisite to owning a gun you should first need to get a state issued license that you only get after passing a test (just like a driver’s license)

2) Then you should have to buy some form of (cheap) minimum liability insurance coverage for gun owners. Past history of mental illness? Bipolar? Sorry, no insurance is going to sign you on = no gun for you.

3) Then your gun would be registered under your name with a state department, and you would have to wait a few weeks until the department issues the registration and the store releases the gun to you – cooling down period for crimes of passion

4) Every gun, every weapon legally produced in the US should have an identification number engraved and registered to make the proliferation of illegal guns – at least the ones we make and sell in the US – more difficult.

Nothing of the above will prevent or eradicate crime. There still will be a black market where professional bad guys can get anything they need. But a sad nutcase like the Virginia Tech monster or the next bunch of mentally disturbed teen-age kids who are already out there planning to shoot more then 32 when their meltdown happens would be less likely to get those guns. Make it more difficult. Save some lives. At least try to.<

Yea, you’re a real brainyack.

So let’s think about this, you’re going to create all these guidelines to gun ownership, or take it a step further, as some would like, and make them illegal.

Ok, so that will solve the problem, or at least lessen the risk of being shot by some wacko.

But….. drugs are illegal, and very easy to come by, even if you aren’t a “professional junkie”. We have even had a “war” on drugs since Regan and they are still so easy to acquire that middle schoolers are doing them. But hey, guns would be much harder to get into this country than drugs right? No way they could get them across the boarder. Yeah let’s make them hard to get legally and the problem will just go away.