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Should US citizens accused of domestic abuse lose the right to bear arms?

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considered. Most of them think to be capable of limiting themselves, they don't want to kill, but only to use the weapon for self-defence; instead, they are unaware of joking with the fire in a gunpowder magazine, so that only one moment of rage, more violent than usual, can drive them to shoot and cause a tragedy.
More than the security of their house against external intrusions, they have in mind how to keep their patriarchal "male power" on their family.

It will not be easy, also within the next generation, to impose severe limitations to firearms possess in the US and make end, at last, such Far-West reality in this Country that should be one of the most civilized and advanced of the world.
The weapons culture is too rooted like an addiction and, without a gun in their pocket anymore, too many people would feel themselves "naked" or prey of an "abstinence crisis".

The first thing to do in this direction should be just this: preventing people who's charged or already condemned for domestic abuse of whatever kind to own a firearm and extend this prohibition to all people charged or condemned of violent actions also outside their families (robbing, drug smuggling, brawl, sexual violence or harassment, terrorism, threatens, alcohol and drugs use, resistance to the police and so on) because their violent attitude can very easily hit in their familiar nucleus too.

All these subjects are not "ghosts"; their data are recorded in all the data-base of the police in all American States. So, if you were in this list, you wouldn't get the licence or qualification to buy a weapon in a shop; if you entered this list for a crime, you would automatically lose it and all your weapons would be sequestered.

Every weapon dealer should record all his sales in a protected electronic memory with the number codes of the clients' licences and their identity, so that the police can easily control whether some weapons have been sold to persons without qualification and arrest this dealer in case of transgression.

Also the number of shops where to buy firearms would be drastically reduced (surely, not in supermarkets or mega-stores) to ease such type of controls and repression, as well as the weapons types in commerce, banning all automatic rifles and machine-guns.
It's not possible that a normal citizen can buy weapons used by the Army or by the Special Corps!

After this most urgent step, it will be possible to limit weapons possess also among the so-called "good persons",


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Should US citizens accused of domestic abuse lose the right to bear arms?

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    by Paola Fanutti

    The right to bear and retain arms is guaranteed to all Americans in the Bill of Rights' second amendment, however, the application

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    by Elizabeth M. Young

    It was easy to challenge the title and to wonder how fair it is to take away a person's self defense based on an accusation.

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No
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    by Maria Brogna

    A United States citizen accused of domestic abuse or violence should not lose their rights to bear arms or any other constitutional

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    by Mark Niwot

    The very question is an affront to both the Bill of Rights and the English language! It doesn't take four hundred words to

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