I agree Mike, we need to fund mental issues, but not only that, we need to bring them to the foreground and view them as a true sickness and not just something to keep locked away in a dark room or via deep medication.

Realistic gun measures need to be undertaken sooner than later.

And finally, schools need to be protected and I don't care if they end up looking like an Israeli airport, our children are worth it.

Tax firearms and their related accessories to earn the required capital, that will bring the NRA to the negotiating table.

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I was right.

Agreed.

So if we pass stricter gun laws and require training, registration, and licensing we have to ensure fees for those are enough to cover the adminstration expenses (DMVs do the same thing... and someone has to pay for all that) and additional enforcement involved while still having enough left over to shuttle to the schools.

1. Registration Fee (the firearm itself, similar to car registration). Proceeds after admin costs go to protecting schools.

2. Transfer Fees (like transferring registration of a vehicle). Proceeds after admin costs go to protecting schools.

3. License Fee (for the individual to be able to possess and operate, ie like a car). Proceeds after admin costs go to protecting schools.

4. Firearm, accessory, and munitions tax with guarantees and non partisan oversight so that it all gets distributed to protecting schools. (cams, universal coms, centrally locking doors, ballistic glass)

5. Very stiff penalties for violation of laws, in which a portion of the monetary portion of the penalty is guaranteed to go towards protecting schools.


Obviously numbers and details would have to get worked out, but something like that *could* work.