Originally Posted by Patrick Keafer
No need to ban them. Make semi-auto rifles class 3 weapons like machine guns, improve the background check on those weapons to look for mental health flags, and add a 10% tax to the purchases that go to funds which help the victims and the families of mass shootings in the US. What people don't realize is that by accepting no improvements in the screening process or mental health reporting, gun owners are headed down a path to a total ban. The Walmart change of policy, while not significant in the number of guns or rounds it will no longer sell, is symbolic. The tide has shifted in public opinion and politicians, even conservative ones, will change their minds as their corporate donors flee the legal vulnerability of being too gun friendly.
Dick's sporting goods got rid of their guns not too long ago and I'm glad to see Walmart going on the same path.
I saw a CNN special the other night on gun laws in other countries and one other country has a gun per capita type of population similar to that in the US with very little, if any, problems. Switzerland engrains its population in gun rules and regs and proper training from youth onward. Part of it has to do with compulsory military service because the country maintains a citizen militia and because sharpshooting in a national pastime. They go absolutely apeshit over there with target-shooting competitition.
They start in at about age 7 and well into 70 and beyond. They got some real shooters over there. I suspect they don't have all the nuts we have over here, either...