I was reading yesterday where someone was asking for gun education.  I agree, people should know more about a gun, besides what they see on tv.  There is more to it than how to load, point and pull the trigger.

I believe that the guns should be made more difficult to get.  We have trade shows, in fact there is one this weekend at the Shrine Temple.  Anyone can go to it with an admission ticket and a pocket full of money.  They are allowed to shop through hundreds of weapons and find what they want, buy it and take it home.  Bang, a done deal.  There are lots and lots of genuine collectors to whom these shows are targeted.  But anyone can go, and someone of the wrong mindset can go and pick up anyone of the guns for sale, mostly from individuals.  Those that are not collectors will have a gun regardless, but, my contention is make buying a gun not as easy.  Either have the collectors licensed as such so their documents are on file nationally with ATF and availabe to all law inforcement agencies.  Or, perhaps as well as that have the people who go to the trade shows to sell them, be licensed as well, and go through the full proceedure as with retailers.

Obviously, this will not stop it.  However it may help at least.  A legitimate collector will not mind a wait, because he knows that it is his/or hers, (sorry ladies, habit.)If not from around here, then they won't mind extending their stay, or make arrangements to have it shipped to them.  The extra steps are inconvenient, and they should be, it is unfortunate that there are elements in our society that make these measures which I propose in my mind necessary.  I am NOT anti gun in any way, the people who chant "guns kill people", are wrong, people kill people, and they will use whatever means at their disposal, unfortunately a gun does a better job than others.  I feel that if we make them more difficult to get, some people who will die this way, may not, because the one who would have did not have a gun, or was able to cool off before they did.