re: Ben Carson is absolutely right, and for more reasons than he says

The answer isn't to teach scared little kindergarteners to attack. If that's the only thing you want to change from the status quo, you're not that bright. I like guns, but you all are sheep for believing that all gun control is bad. Nothing is as rigid as you ideologues believe. Conservatives love to bring up Chicago. Well Chicago loosened their gun controls laws in the last two years fairly significantly. Gun violence went up. First off, while that is 100% accurate, it's just as reckless as the "derp derp gun control city in Illinois derp deep there is a lot of gun violence there deep derp gun control doesn't work deep derp". There are many factors at work, and as a country we are reckless with the way we frame arguments. There are laws that can be passed that will do absolutely nothing to impede your ability to own a firearm for your safety and leisure.

Register guns. You register your home, your vehicles, your pets, your marriage, and your children's schooling. Registration is not an issue. You need a license to operate every fire arm you own. Hunting rifle? Well you only need to be 10 or so, take a course, and be in the presence of someone licensed over the age of 21. Easy. A concealed hand gun? Take a course. Renew your CHL every four years. Register your hand gun. An assault rifle? Take a course for the assault rife, or get a military exemption, and register that rifle for home defense. If that weapon is registered for home defense, with your home defense firearm license, it is not legally allowed to leave your property. If it is registered for leisure use, the license is more expensive, the training required is higher, and you're required to renew the leisure use license every year. Establish mental health guidelines that directly effect your licenses to own and operate any gun, at any time. If you're a type I diabetic, you can't hold a Class A commercial driver's license. It's the same shite. If your mental health professional is starting you on new medication, or suggests suspension of a suspension of your license to own and operate a firearm, then tough shite. Deal with it. Oregon and Sandy Hook shooter's mom's with assloads of guns that they like to show their kids? Well if they want to go to the shooting range, they needs to present their firearm license. Their kids do too. If their kid has a hold on his license he can't do anything. If these ladies wanted to leave their firearms around unlocked, for a weapon that isn't registered to their legally adult child, then their arse is fricked if those guns ever leave their premises. A degree of negligent homicide should be brought forth. If was a home defense weapon, that falls within the home defense guidelines for easy access, and was stolen, then that's one thing. But if those weapons were registered for leisure use, it should have to be owned, insured and registered to that individual. If they weren't locked up, then culpability falls on the gun owner. Home defense? Of course, grab whatever you want and keep whatever you want, you don't need a lock, it's your private property. But if you're going to be a gun owner with a ton of guns you can't keep track of and they are for leisure use, they need to be locked up. And if you have someone in your house with mental illness, you need to lock up your guns, and even then you probably won't register them or even buy them in the first place.

And you know what? All the criminals that don't comply to this basic shite? Legalize weed so you have some empty cells, and lock their asses up.

It really is this simple, IMO. But this is gun control. Everyone thinks their view is right. No point in arguing.