With police. Just like every other law. And it wouldn't be remotely fascistic.
You seem to be ignoring the part where, based off of the lack of response to the Conn and NY Safe Act, the majority of gun owners simply don't cooperate. Do you expect the police to go door to door? If people refuse to let the police search the home for guns, then what? Warrants to search all the homes in the country? Police have more immediate issues to worry about.
Most likely, nothing will happen and in the next election, the registry or ban gets scrapped.
This is usually shorthand for 'I don't know how to address your argument'.
You expressed an opinion. You didn't express a solution to argue. "I decry the spread of stupidity." See? Nothing to debate.
The UK has issues with knife crime, because it doesn't have issues with guns, because it doesn't fetishise the things. It's a straight-up improvement over the American situation.
I see it more as the UK doesn't trust its citizens to protect themselves from criminals who will use whatever they can. But the US is not the UK, and the UK is not the US.
Banning all firearms or becoming like Australia isn't going to solve the situation of what's been going on this country or in the world, generally speaking. One can make all the gun laws they want, make background checks more extensive, or limit firearms to only single shot, and it's still not going to work. I mean, look what happened at the Boston Marathon a few years ago; two people made homemade bombs, using pressure cookers, and three people were killed, several hundred others were injured, including 16 who lost limbs. Are we suppose to ban pressure cookers or items than can be used to make bombs? People use guns because they're more convenient and easier to use, but that's not the real problem. If somebody wants to harm others and injure/kill multiple people in a public setting (like what happened in Vegas), then they'll find a way to do it (probably in the form of using a bomb).
Or truck or arson. Both items used to commit mass murder. Guns also make it easier for granny, grandpa, the slender girl, boy, person in a wheelchair to defend themselves against an attacker.
The problem is our society and the people in it. It's also the way the world has changed.
Could be. I don't think the 24 hour news cycle helps the matter any. A deranged person is guaranteed attention these days if they go for a mass murder event. Extra attention if you break a record.
I would point out that some of those events don't fit the FBI definition of a mass shooting. At least three are terrorism. A couple are known to be mentally unstable people. Heck, Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper was revealed to have a brain tumor that was causing headaches that he tried to get help for. A survivor of the Luby shooting testified to Congress that she left her firearm in her car because of the laws about carrying a firearm in that building.
In the last 10 years alone, there's been 18 mass shootings. Before that, there was only 15 that occurred within a span of about 60 years. That's a huge difference IMHO. I'd like to point out that there's always been access to automatic and semiautomatic firearms during this time frame as well. I'd also like to point out, that there's been more gun laws and background checks made/enforced overall, within this time frame too.
Part of it could be how things got reported. I wouldn't be surprised if CNN "missed" a few.
Banning all guns and doing nothing else wouldn't immediately solve problems yes. It's why we talk about mental health treatment along with other solutions. The issue is we've done nothing, so any progress will take time now, time people refuse to give. So now that the church shooting is over by mass shooting standards, the talk will probably die down until we see a hospital shot up, and we hear about how if the doctors were armed it would have never happened. It's the same with things like nuclear power. It takes 10 years to get a plant running, so people just think that's too long for a better effect.
I feel the need to point out that a doctor did kill an attacker in his office that had already killed one other person. The idea of letting people carry more often is a good one. There are plenty of incidents of armed people stopping an event before it reaches mass shooter levels. Which means antigun people claim that a mass shooting was not prevented. How would you know if it was?
I can't think of a solution that just immediately fixes the problem, because there isn't one. Either you want progress and safety and people living and want to take the right road, which isn't a 6 month fix, or you say "Well better to just do nothing, and only change my mind if my immediate family gets killed", which again, shows you care more about a false sense of safety for yourself than actual lives.
Again with the either/or choice. It isn't an either/or choice. I kind of feel like throwing out that Franklin quote about giving up liberty for safety.
Here's a solution. Work to fix the healthcare system so that people with mental issues can get the help the need. Money, more help, better drugs, whatever. Ask the people working there what they need. Fix the cracks in the background check system. Find out why people aren't being added when they should be. Fix that. Address the stolen firearm thing. Get discounts for better home security, better gun safes, whatever. Not an easy one. Police response time in some areas allows burglars to be in and out before they arrive. Add gun classes to high schools and colleges. Basic NRA classes. I don't trust anti-gunners to do proper classes. Get a national conceal carry going so that people don't get arrested for driving into the wrong state.
And yeah, saying America is different is kinda negative here, because it implies that Americans are just inherently violent compared to other countries.
If you look at the numbers, the US is way down the list of violent countries. Its also an example of what I said earlier. People with an agenda carefully select what numbers they want to show so they can argue "but this group is MORE violent" when reality doesn't reflect that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent-crime/Murder-rate-per-million-people
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp