Buying a Gun Should be as Difficult as Getting an Abortion

We should treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion:  impose a mandatory 48 hr waiting period, require parental permission, obtain a note from his doctor proving he understands what he is about to do, be forced to watch about the effects of gun violence, undergo an embarrassing ultrasound wand in one of his orifices (just because). 

We should close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work without pay, and stay overnight in a strange town alone. 

Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were killed by gun, and have people call him a murderer and beg him to turn around and  go home.

  Both abortion and gun ownership are rights confided to us in the Constitution as interpreted by SCOTUS, yet the obstacles imposed on women are far more severe than buying a gun-  and no woman who ever had an abortion killed a room full of people in seconds. Buying and carrying a gun with the ability to kill someone should be at least as difficult as getting an abortion.

Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We need radical legislation to curb gun murder.