Should the federal government institute a mandatory buyback of assault weapons?

Sadly If You Want To Institute a Mandatory Buyback of Assault Weapons You Can’t. There are too many guns out there and to do so will cause a civil war within this great nation. Forcing Americans to give up their arms of any kind to many is considered unconstitutional. You Might argue my point and tell me. No it’s not unconstitutional, it is to protect our nation from the violence that is carried out by people using these weapons but if that is the case then tell me how long before our government decides to buy back all cell phones to control the flow of information or solves our climate issue by eliminating all cars. Here are some facts to consider

1. A Pew Foundation report found that 79% of male gun owners and 80% of female gun owners said owning a gun made them feel safer, and 64% of people living in a home in which someone else owns a gun felt safer.

2. The US General Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that 100% of deaths per year in which a child under 6 years old shoots and kills him/herself or another child could be prevented by automatic child-proof safety locks.

3. The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2015, representing 1.3% of total deaths. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (67.3% of all homicides) and by suicide (51.9% of all suicides).

4. Mexico has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world and yet, in 2012, Mexico had 11,309 gun murders (9.97 gun homicides per 100,000 people) compared to the United States that had 9,146 gun homicides (2.97 per 100,000 people).

5. Carrying a concealed handgun in public has been permitted in all 50 states since 2013, when Illinois became the last state to enact concealed carry legislation. [101]

6. Five women a day are killed by guns in America. A woman’s risk of being murdered increases 500% if a gun is present during a domestic dispute. [10] [11]

My Views

Don’t mandate a buyback. Offer an optional buyback of these weapons but more importantly, make harsher punishments for those individuals that use these weapons to create mass terror. Yes, you heard me right any American that uses these weapons against other Americans is considered a terrorist and should be dwelt with harshly. We need to revisit our views of corporal punishment as a society and develop harsher ways of dealing with these individuals. In my opinion, I follow the word of the ancient Greeks who state an eye for an eye. If a child kills another child then that child needs to forfeit their life as well… Immediately… Don’t lock them away instead treat them as they have treated others.

Also, we need to develop a punishment that punishes the individual that owns the firearms in the first place. This topic usually spans from the media’s portrayal of school shootings and the terror they cause. But if we were to take a step back we would question “Where did the kids get the weapons in the first place?” Most if not all of the children got them from their parent’s stock. Their parents failed to either keep control of their weapons in the first place. The child was then able to enact their plan with the aid of their parents. The weapon of choice had nothing to do with it. It was the negligence of the parents that allowed the child to get a hold of the weapon and use it on the innocent. It is, therefore, my belief that we as Americans need to hold the parents or the buyers of the original weapons just as responsible as the shooters themselves. We need to reach out to all parents in the United States and help everyone see that we need you to be a parent and stop this violence before it occurs and if you don’t then you will suffer the same coincidences as your child to some degree.

As you can see my views on this subject are very harsh but the reality is that it is the individual’s fault and not the fault of the weapon manufacturers or the weapons themselves. I use the analogy of a car and a car accident. Is it the fault of the car that an accident occurs? The answer in most cases is “No” The car itself had nothing to do with the accident. It is the driver’s fault and the drives neglect that lead to the accident.

So I ask the same question here as was originally asked of the guns. Since the cars were involved and killed should the government institute a mandatory buyback of all vehicles? This is just the start of a debate that will continue on…

There are many books and on gun control and I encourage others to compare these writings to my own and ask yourself is giving up assault weapons really going to solve the problems we face in America.