You seem to be really keen about this. If your goal is to make the world a safer place, and not only taking away other people's rights try mandating locking or safes for all but the first one or two guns in a house instead.
Around here you are required to have a weapons safe to store almost any kind of weapon at home. This limits the risk of more guns getting into criminals hands as well as the risk of children toying around with them.
BTW another nice touch around here is you are required to have a reason for having a gun. That either means hunting, target practice or serving in the police or military. Reasons tends to be understood leniently (ie no one cares if you don't go hunting for a few years), except for handguns that requires the local chapter of a target shooting club to vouch for you.
I almost think you could get a good chunk of NRA behind something in these directions if you could somehow make sure it wouldn't be used for racketeering. After all NRA doesn't exactly look like raging bloodthirsty madmen, do they? Just like we aren't very fond of criminals just because we want to keep our encryption?
I am actually not really that keen on it other than as how to tackle an issue like gun control. If you are in favor of gun control why not go for the weak point (the ammunition) rather than the strong point (the second amendment). It is like the anti-gun lobby is not trying to win and are just in a culture war with the NRA.
Around here you are required to have a weapons safe to store almost any kind of weapon at home. This limits the risk of more guns getting into criminals hands as well as the risk of children toying around with them.
BTW another nice touch around here is you are required to have a reason for having a gun. That either means hunting, target practice or serving in the police or military. Reasons tends to be understood leniently (ie no one cares if you don't go hunting for a few years), except for handguns that requires the local chapter of a target shooting club to vouch for you.
I almost think you could get a good chunk of NRA behind something in these directions if you could somehow make sure it wouldn't be used for racketeering. After all NRA doesn't exactly look like raging bloodthirsty madmen, do they? Just like we aren't very fond of criminals just because we want to keep our encryption?