Let's face facts, America has currently got a HUGE problem with gun crime.
I mean just look at what happened at Robb Elementary School (in Uvalde, Texas) last year. An 18 year old Hispanic (probably an illegal immigrant) walks into this Elementary School with an AR-15 rifle (which is effectively the same as a US Army M-16, only it cannot fire in fully = automatic mode - just semi-automatic, which means you can still squeeze off up to 60 rounds/minute). BTW, the AR-15 was the Official and Provisional IRA's favourite weapon; they loved it so much, they even wrote a song about it ("My Little Armalite", I think it was called). And guess who sent the IRA their very first batch of 27 AR-15s? I'll tell you, it was a group of crazy, white Yankee goof-balls who purchased them legally, over-the-counter, at gun shops in America, then bundled them all up together and sent them by US Post to Belfast. So, to continue, this 18 year old Hispanic casually walks into Robb Elementary School carrying an AR-15. He the, walks into a classroom of 4th grade kids and some teachers and says to them: "it's time to die." He then fires his AR-15 into the class and quickly kills 19 of the kids and two teachers. I forget how many casualties there were who survived. But the only way you don't die very fast if you are hit by a round from an AR-15 is if you are hit in an extremity like the hand/forearm or foot/lower leg.
Watching the video from the video cam-corder devices the cops were wearing and the footage from a school surveillance camera at the end of the hall the 4th graders' classroom was in - hearing rapid, semi-automatic fire from the AR-15 was one of the most sickening experiences of my life.
I hope you all understand that when the 2nd Amendment was ratified on December 15th of 1791, it was NEVER EVER the intention of the Founders that every American individual should be given some kind of absolute, sacred, right to purchase, possess and bear arms. That was NEVER, EVER, what they intended in the 2nd Amendment; and if they knew about the rates of gun crime in America today, they would be absolutely appalled and horrified
But how do you start to sort out the gigantic problem the US has with gun-crime today?
Here is just ONE measure I believe would at represent a meaningful start to sorting out the mess.
Any one over 18 who wants to purchase a firearm has to present official evidence that they have an IQ of 100 points AT LEAST, as evaluated using a standardised intelligence test (exactly like the US Military uses). A range of these tests already exist and have been validated countless times, they do not contain any kind of cultural bias either.
Of course, there is no absolute guarantee that a person who presents official evidence they have an IQ of 100 or over, will not buy a gun and perpetrate some heinous crime with it. But having an IQ of 100 points tend to correlate pretty well with being, at least, a NORMAL, REASONABLE, American adult - someone who is not unlikely to go and shoot up a elementry school
If Congress passed a measure like this , let's call it: the "Mandate for Cognitive Competence Firearms' Act"; OVERNIGHT South Chicago, to give one example, would be transformed from a bloody "killing field" to a relatively safe area. I GUARANTEE it.
For those who would object to such a firearms bill, the unified political response from Congress would be: "TOUGH TITTY, DUDE !! IT'S A GOOD PROPOSAL THAT WILL SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES AT THE STROKE OF A PEN.
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