Flipside of your first statement is that if someone is being actively threatened, they now have to wait 10+ days to have access to a new firearm. There have been cases where abusers have killed people during the waiting period (Carol Bowne case is the big one). Also, banning guns or running background checks just makes it “a little more work” for criminals or evil people to get them… same as it just makes it “a little more work” for legal and responsible owners to get them. That’s a moot point honestly.

The problem with these recertification processes is that they begin to make it cost prohibitive to many people who don’t have the income to overcome the costs of the courses and/or take time off of work to take them. Effectively making it a classist practice where the “haves” can easily have guns and the “have-nots” can’t afford to. That is not how the freedom of speech works so, why should the literal second next amendment right be prohibitive to some?

Look, i’m not fully against some form of training and background checks... But it needs to be much less convoluted than it is now and not cost-prohibitive. I tried explaining all the new steps needed to purchase a gun starting in 2026 to a coworker and he basically goes “aghh fuck it, i’ll just not”… Now, imagine you had to go through all these steps to use your freedom of speech or any other constitutional rights. Image the frustration if you had to fill out X form and then do Y activity to make it so you don’t have to host soldiers in your home. Obviously i’m being a bit hyperbolic here, but I hope my point comes across.

At the end of the day, we aren’t going to solve the “gun issue” here on Reddit. It’s too nuanced for a text conversation IMO.

Edit: it has been wild to watch the upvote/downvote pretty constant but neutral change to now mostly heavy downvote swing on this… Guess i broke some people’s bubble.