Guns Need Titles Like Automobiles

If you own a car, you have to have a title for it. It doesn't matter if it is new from a dealer, or you bought a 12-year-old-beater from uncle Frank, you have to have a title. But with a gun (i.e. a tool created exclusively to kill or simulate killing—as in target practice), I can buy one from anyone's uncle Frank; no questions asked. This seems odd to me. I don't believe for a minute, that a law making titles mandatory would be able to account for all of the privately owned (or possessed) firearms. Nor do I believe that a title would be the first step in the government taking anyone's guns away. It would, however, make people accountable for their own guns. Yes, I agree we should keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. But how are you going to do that when they can buy one from a private party with no background check?

So far, Doing Nothing has only resulted in continued and increasing gun violence and death. Isn't it time to at least try to do something? As "you" stand there clutching your gun, don't you feel bad for the children being gunned down in their schools?

For me personally, the only time I was ever threatened by someone (chasing my car and) brandishing a gun at me, it was a legal permit holder and the police gave him his gun back. After all, he told them he didn't pull it. He also told them that it was on his car seat because it hurts him when he is driving when it is holstered. The knife in the car door handle was legal too. He is also adamantly opposed to any gun regulations. Simply put, since I drove into a police station parking lot instead of a back alley, he didn't shoot me—so he can roam freely—at least until he kills someone with his (also legal) extended clip.