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Another Gun Owner Wants National Gun Control

Here we go again... John Rosenthal is a gun owner and cofounder of the groups Stop Handgun Violence, Common Sense About Kids and Guns, and the American Hunters and Shooters Association. Another Brady Bunch type masquerading as a typical gun owner. From the Boston Globe, he offers some suggestions:

So what's the answer to gun trafficking and the increasing gun violence in urban centers?

The federal government must enact uniform gun laws similar to what has worked in Massachusetts. It should:

# Require backgrounds checks for all gun purchases, especially at gun shows and flea markets.

# Require safe storage of all firearms -- unless they are in the owner's direct control -- to reduce gun thefts from homes, cars, and dealers.

# Allow the FBI to maintain gun purchase records that can be accessed by law enforcement.

# Develop effective federal gun trafficking laws with minimum mandatory sentences for unlawful multiple gun sales.

# Limit gun purchases to one per month per person.

# Create incentives for gun manufacturers to produce ''personalized" and ''child-proof" guns that only the intended user can fire.

While it is certainly a good idea for households where children are present to use a gun safe, requiring it of everyone (such as those who don't have children) is an intrusion into what we keep around our homes. Since DVD players are hot items, should we all be required to lock those up as well so they aren't stolen?

And since when have safes ever stopped burglars anyway? I remember the case of one jeweler whose home was robbed. So he installed a safe. He was robbed again and the thieves wheeled the entire safe out of his house!

Allow the FBI to maintain a gun ownership base? Sounds like registration to me. And registration has always led to confiscation. Germany, England, Australia come to mind. Oh wait! California comes to mind since they started banning specific "assault weapons" and made criminals out of legal owners of them. Even Sen. Joe Leiberman stated that he would be against a national registration because he worried about future confiscations by the government.

Require background checks for all transfers? Between two friends? When a father hands-down that .22 to his son?

Limit purchases to one-per-month? If a person is a law-abiding citizen, why should he be limited? Maybe he comes across an antique pair of dueling pistols at an estate sale; can he only buy one of them?

This is silly. Fake, phony, frauds like Rosenthal would have you believe that everyone, everywhere in the country should have their rights curtailed just so urban areas of this country -- where crime and gangs are out of control -- don't have to do the heavy lifting of actually fighting crime themselves.

This is the same specious thinking that NYC Mayor Bloomberg is proposing to propagate to state houses around the country: We have a problem in our city so you must change all your laws to help us out.

To Bloomberg and Rosenthal: Go pound salt.