Let's talk about some other systems. I'm gonna think outside the box now. All right, I'm thinking outside the box on guns. You know that we've had obviously huge gun problems in this country and it doesn't seem like we're ever gonna get to the point where we ban all the guns and nobody's ever going to be happy with allowing guns the way they are. So we have two situations that can't last. We can't have the current situation go on and it's hard to change anything because the gun people.

So here's my out-of-the-box suggestion for solving the gun problem. Are you ready? Make it mandatory, if you own a gun, mandatory membership in the NRA. It takes a while to think about why that makes sense. But let me tell you what's the first thing that the NRA is concerned about. They're concerned that there would be some kind of a national registry of who owns guns. But do you know who already has a national registry of who owns guns? The NRA. The NRA has a list of its membership. Pretty much a hundred percent of those people own guns. There might be somebody who gave away their gun and still wants to be a member but for the most part the NRA does have a national registry of who owns guns and who cares about guns.

Now on top of that the NRA is the most proactive organization for gun safety, as many of you are saying in the comments right there. The most proactive on gun safety. And here's the best part. They also have the most interest in reducing gun violence. Who but the NRA has that much interest in reducing gun violence? Because it's their entire reason for being. You and I have other things to worry about. Gun violence is just one of the big things we're worried about but we have lots of other things to worry about. The NRA has one thing to worry about: keeping guns. Safely. It's the safely part that they need to figure out.

So what if you just take government out of the job and say look, here's the deal. If you want a gun at the same time you have to sign up for the NRA because the NRA is going to be trying to educate you. They're gonna be trying to figure out more about their members. They might even come up with, wait for it, the NRA might come up with its own gun control measures. Why? Because as soon as you take the government out of it and you say okay it's a private organization, we all get to vote within this organization, let's decide how we want to handle guns but the government is not part of it. The government won't be part of that. So the NRA could collectively say okay, now that the government is out of the decision-making we're not worried about the slippery slope anymore because we're making our own decisions. Gun owners are making the decisions. Nobody else. Gun owners are making the decisions for gun owners, not the government.

Now suddenly you're flexible because you're saying there's no slippery slope. The gun owners are not going to screw themselves. The government might screw us but the gun owners are not going to screw themselves. So if the gun owners say let's have this kind of a check, let's have this kind of a requirement, let's try this somewhere, it's going to be a lot more palatable.

Now you also don't want people to have to pay dues to the NRA so you might have to have some kind of dual membership level. You know if you had a higher level of membership maybe you get some more benefits but you at least need to be on the mailing list and at least need to be part of the organization.

All right, now this is an out-of-the-box idea and so I do not present it as a suggestion. It's not a suggestion. It's just an out-of-the-box idea. Because when you first hear it didn't you have the experience of why is that a good idea? It's not a good idea or it's a bad idea. And then it starts to settle in with you that when you've taken the responsibility away from the government, which is where all the constitutional questions are, and you put it in private hands and you empower them and you make it their brand to take care of this kind of stuff, these shootings, maybe you have something.