This is my post/comment to a great diary at 1:12 A.M. 12/15/2012 by riottapes.
Someone commented that he or she should re-post the diary again today. I'm not sure if he or she will do that, so I want to make my post current.
This is my answer to question #9. "What ideas do YOU have to fix the gun problem in the US?"
As I say in my book: "Is America Stupid?" which I just lowered to $.99 just so people will read the GUNS chapter- Gun Checkpoints.
There are sobriety checkpoints, why not gun checkpoints. It's not like you see them all the time. They're not that inconvenient. Even when I used to go out at night to parties or bars, I think I experienced 2 of them in my entire life. And they're incredibly fair, no racial profiling. Everyone has to go through them.
Because of this national epidemic, do one a week. Close down a few exits of a freeway so no one can avoid them. 1000 cars can't avoid them. Divert the other cars behind them to prior exits. Give the cars an immediate choice. Turn over your illegal guns and you either get a small or no penalty. But if you are searched and any illegal weapon is found, then the penalty is harsh, extremely harsh.
1000 cars at 10 P.M. on a Friday evening. How many illegal guns do you think that will net?
What do you think?
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