Ah, gun bigot and all around compulsive liar John Rosenthal (who may also be a child molester, he probably hasn't been caught yet, but I can't confirm that) brings up 7 magical, fairy tale dreams on how The One can stop "gun violence" from day one of his rule administration.
#1 Mandatory criminal background checks for all gun sales
Basically, ban private sales. This is the ever failing but never giving up strategy of closing the mythical gun show loophole. Of course, they have a point. If private sales were banned, Theo the Thug will have to comply with the law and not sell the TEC-9 to the local drug dealer on the street. He simply won't. Criminals apparently have a sense of honor and follow the law in Rosenthal-Land.
#2 Require responsible and safe gun storage for all firearms unless they are in the owners direct control
And this reduces violence how? Is Rosie actually suggesting that an alter boy, on his way to deliver food to the needy, is suddenly going to commit a crime because he could crawl up on his daddy's shelf and pick up the handgun (that was probably purchased as a gun show?)?
#3 Allow Law Enforcement to maintain and share critical "crime-gun" trace data
They already do and already can. Rosebud pretty much just makes up lies out of whole cloth to support his assertion they can't.
#4 Restore and improve the Federal Ban on Assault Weapons
Speaking of making up shit out of whole cloth, John apparently used a 20 sided die to come up with numbers to support this. I simply have no time to go into "assault weapons" again, but suffice it to say only John Rosenthal believes that the weapons that cause him to moisten his boxers are used primarily in crime. The FBI's statistics completely disagree with him, but don't let him know that - he has an agenda to push, facts be damned.
#5 Repeal the Federal law giving Immunity to the gun industry
(idiot bait) Maybe we can sue Bed Bath & Beyond for selling plates and eating utensils for their complicity in the nations' problem with obesity.
We don't allow Ford or GM to be sued for making cars that can go fast when a drunk driver kills a busload of crippled orphans on their way to meet The Anointed One who promised to sign an Executive Order repealing the law of gravity so they could walk. Heck, we don't even sue Jim Beam. That's because anyone who doesn't live their life through Rosenthal-Colored-Glasses is intelligent enough to know that a company can't be responsible for the way people use its products. Tough Delaware Liberals, of course, do not fall into that category.
#6 Enact National Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for firearms
Oh yeah, regulations! More intrusions into private lives! BOW TO YOUR GOVERNMENTAL MASTERS!
Again, how does this prevent violence? Hell, some of my guns already have warnings engraved into their barrels, there's safety stickers that come with Crimson Trace grips, and the manuals are full of dire warnings about how dangerous a gun is. How can making the manual thicker stop a thug from robbing a 7-11?
#7 Create incentives for the gun industry to make "personalized guns"
You mean like this?
Nah, Rosie is talking about "smart" guns which do not exist, won't exist for many years, and would never be adopted by the police force because they know that the technology will never be good enough to protect them, and if the police, who are regular civilians like myself, don't trust a technology to protect themselves, why should the general public?
Why? Because it's not about reducing violence, it's about exerting control, plain and simple. Not a single one of Johnny's proposals limit or even reduce crime and never will.