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Last Tuesday after a City Council meeting, Oakland became closer to establishing stricter gun control laws. The City Council approved a proposal from Larry Reid, who represented East Oakland. The proposal including the following: "require the reporting of lost or stolen firearms to the Oakland Police Department, requiring a thumbprint for all ammunition purchases, and enforcing strict permit requirements for the sale of firearms and ammunition in Oakland." The City Council, however, must cast another final vote for the proposal to pass. Many people in Oakland are upset by this, because the city already does not have any firearm dealers that will sell to the public and having such strict regulations on gun control will further prevent the possibilities of having a firearm store. Do you these measure are too extravagant since there are already no firearm stores in Oakland? Will enforcing these regulations "fix the problem"? If not, why? And what do you think should be done? Should the Second Amendment remain no matter what the gun control laws say in a certain area?
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The fact that they are trying to pass laws in a city that does not even have a firearms store is completly outragious. If you try to put such ristrictions on guns, they will do what any other commodity has done, go underground. Illigal gun sales already happen very often, by putting such heavy ristrictions on them, it will only lead to more people becoming angry over it. Our 2nd ammendment rights give us the right to bear arms, but does not outline how we can obtain them. So really their is no regulation how people can opbtain them, which can cause huge problems
ReplyDeleteI dont believe more stringent gun control legislation is fixing any problems. It only hurts commerce (not something you want to do in these times) and those who want to legally own weapons.
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