How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion, mandatory 48-hr waiting – period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, and an ultrasound wand up the @ss (just because).
Let’s close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.
It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and health care, right? I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds, right?
And buying bullets should be like getting birth control. You have to pay a copay to see a doctor, answer questions about your mental health and life and you get a limited number with a prescription that expires.
How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion, mandatory 48-hr waiting – period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, and an ultrasound wand up the @ss (just because).
Let’s close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.
It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and health care, right? I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds, right?
And buying bullets should be like getting birth control. You have to pay a copay to see a doctor, answer questions about your mental health and life and you get a limited number with a prescription that expires.