T.L.These are all common misconceptions about firearms in the US.
To purchase a firearm from any sort of store or gun shop in the US, you must present a valid ID and pass a background check. Every single one.
Theoretically, sure. The issue is that there are so many loopholes that virtually anyone can get their hands on a gun and ease of access make it also very affordable, even when circumventing the legal process. In other countries with more stringent background checks or simply no dumb loopholes, access in general is, while still totally possible, harder and therefore illegal access is much costlier, reducing demand and in turn guns in circulation.
The need for an "assault weapon" none of anyone's business but your own. Here in America you don't need to justify your desire to own anything to anyone even if some people believe it's scary.
I think OP was referring to fully automatic weapons, I don't think those are legal anymore, so you actually can't buy new ones, and old ones are in limited supply, so pretty difficult and costly to get. Def a misconception, people imagine all americans have full autos but it's actually super rare I think.
Many people who carry concealed firearms on them opt to carry liability insurance through organizations that regressives try to dismantle with anti-gun lobbying.
Well you're talking about responsible gun owners here, but these are also not usually the ones being problematic in most cases, so that's why it not being mandatory is a problem imo. The ones more likely to do dumb shit and cause problems are also the ones not opting to carry liability insurance.
Some states have specific storage requirements and some states do not. Generally it's a personal responsibility thing.
It should be all states imo, we want every gun owner to be a responsible one, and those not storing their guns properly are simply not.
At the end of the day, in an ideal world we can have a system where guns are kept out off people who shouldn't have them, and the rest can still safely enjoy them. But we live in the real world, and one thing we can all agree on is that our current system is obviously failing to do that.
People, a majority of which are responsible, are able to enjoy guns with very easy access in the US today, and that's great for them. But the unfortunate flip of that coin is that it is just as easy for criminals and unstable individuals to get guns, wreck havoc, and kill people, including children.
Now the question is whether or not that level of freedom is worth the current cost we're paying for it, and if not, what changes to our system would strike the right balance of preserving a fundamental right vs. protecting people.
We can argue about what the right reforms would be, but I think a good first step would be for people to either be honest if they just think the current cost is worth paying, or if not, at least acknowledge that we need change and then come up with ideas instead of being complacent with the status quo.
