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THREAD: I often get attacked by extremists who see any attempt to improve safety and gun laws as a gun ban. That is not my position.
No law can stop all crime. What laws do (like laws against running red lights) is give law enforcement a way to enforce and prosecute.
As a gun owner, I believe we should lead efforts to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.
Here are a few ideas to improve safety and gun laws.
1) Expand and improve background checks.
Although millions have failed BGC's & denied a gun via a licensed dealer, exemptions for private sales make BGC's all too easy to circumvent 
Require all transfers via FFL's. Without a background check, non-licensed sellers can't know if a buyer is prohibited from buying a gun
Data sharing is also inadequate, allowing the Charleston, Virginia Tech, and Lafayette shooters to buy their guns.
2) Require manual safeties. A wide variety of guns have no manual safety to prevent a child from pulling a trigger & accidentally firing it.
Think of the many products, from cars to cribs, that used tragedies to improve safety through better design. Gun manufacturers are exempt.
3) Pass Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws and prosecute parents whose toddlers access their guns and shoot themselves or others.
4) Stop locking people up for drug offenses and prioritize the prosecution of illegal gun possession and trafficking.
Republicans have starved the ATF of budget needed to enforce gun laws.
Finally: 5) Support the ban on "straw purchases" (buying a gun for someone else, circumventing the background check system).
