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It was reported that the weapon was his father’s.

Sometimes not even a safe will keep everything locked up. With enough time you can saw through most of the commercially available ones.

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There are insurance/registration issues that can address that. Of course there endless possible hypotheticals. I’m personally in favor of some sort of “drivers license” equivalent for guns.

But a 21 year old age limit almost certainly would have prevented Uvalde.

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disagree. if people want to do something, terrible or not, they will find a way illegally.

I’m going to go very basic here and say look at piracy.

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Piracy bro lol there’s apples and oranges but that’s skateboards and dinosaurs.

Even with your point being valid there’s tremendous value for society for making somethings as hard as possible.

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I am highly skeptical of registration because there is a 99.99% certainty that it will be the GOP to use it and strip away weapons from anyone who is not a registered Republican.

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Aside from the rather extreme criticisms (genocide stuff), universal registration is a bad idea for everyone because these things keep getting hacked/leaked:

If you are on the registry, it’s an invitation to descrimination or careful/skilled burglary.

If you aren’t on the registry, it’s an invitation for violent crime with little/no resistance.

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Do we know in this case whether or not the gun was even kept in a safe?

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With enough time you can saw through most of the commercially available ones.

This is technically true but with the amount of time and effort it takes to get through a good portion of the safes I’ve seen, it would honestly be easier to go and steal one from some schmuck with a truck gun or whatever that’s insecurely, uhhh, secured.

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