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]Here's my plan:
1. Mandatory national background checks paid for by the individual wanting to buy a gun. Includes finger printing and screen for criminal history.
2. You want to buy a gun? You waive your HIPAA rights to have your mental health history reviewed as part of the background check.
3. Mandatory two week waiting period to allow the background check to be completed.
4. National concealed carry law that doesn't make me a criminal when I CCW across state lines even though I'm fully licensed in my current state (as part of this you must complete item 1 above even if you already have a CCW license).
5. All of the above work in concert to allow sane, law abiding American citizens the right to protect themselves from criminals who will pay no attention to any of the above.
Signed - a lifetime member of the NRA and proud citizen of the United States.
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These are good suggestions. The two week wait period could be flexible based on factors including existing ownership, handgun vs rifle, etc...
I reluctantly say this but defense is going to have to play a major role in reducing mass shootings in the States, the vast number of guns in the country already and the ease of acquiring these guns makes legal gun control policies much less effective.
Armed security guards and carefully selected armed citizens may be the only way such a heavily armed country can protect it's citizens.