Oh - they make no difference to me, whatsoever. Just a casual interest in trying to understand your high gun homicide rates, high general crime rates, high gun ownership and what are the motivators behind them. It’s also interesting to see how people react when these questions are asked.
I was also interested in what the Catholic Bishops had to say about gun control and have already posted in another thread so may as well do so here too:
We support the development of a coherent national handgun control policy that includes: a several day cooling-off period between the sale and possession; a ban on “Saturday Night Specials”; the registration of handguns; the licensing of handgun owners; and more effective controls regulating the manufacture, sale and importation of handguns. We recognize, however, that these individual steps will not completely eliminate the abuse of handguns. We believe that only prohibition of the importation, manufacture, sale, possession and use of handguns (with reasonable exceptions made for the police military, security guards and pistol clubs where guns would be kept on the premises under secure conditions) will provide a comprehensive response to handgun violence.
