But to just about anyone, much less a mentally disturbed man like Christopher O’Kroley, punishment from local misdemeanor to federal felony, which includes everything from suspension of driver’s licenses to criminal penalties that show up in a background check and may make it difficult for them when seeking employment, they may provide incentive to harm another.
Failure to pay is a crime on some level on its own, and O’Kroley’s past with mental health issues, IMO, he shouldn’t have been allowed to purchase a firearm. But unlike gun control advocates, I think he would have been able to kill his intended target even without a firearm.
California, Colorado, NY, NJ, IL off the top of my head. All have instituted bans and at least three of them are confiscating banned firearms.
Registration makes it very easy for them to do so.
To cite one example of a state that bans, guns are still readily available in California. If certain guns are banned, that’s not an infringement. You still have other choices. __
No more knives on a butcher block for everyone from the chefs among us to those, well, more nefarious sorts?
How about cutlery shops, which may still have sharpeners for those butchers’ knives? Could be anyone looking for a knife sharpener from the kosher butcher to someone stalking his old girlfriend or boss.
Can we all drive around in tiny cars like the Cooper? The larger models may be used for more destructive purposes like driving into a crowd.
As has been explained and adjudicated about a billion times, no right is absolute. Your guns for everyone attitude is precisely the kind of thinking that gets 11,000 people killed in this country alone every year.