Thank you for your article indicating that state legislative leaders may be inclined to propose gun safety legislation in the coming year.
The next-to-last paragraph in the article — “It is not a difficult concept to grasp. If you own a gun, you should be required to secure it, sell it or surrender it, or prepare for the consequence if you lose control of it.” — has been more or less the law in Japan for decades. In order to obtain a gun, usually for hunting, a person must undergo training, register the weapon with authorities, keep the weapon under lock and key, and allow key access to authorities. In addition, there may be random checks to make certain the weapon is secure.
The result is that the mega city of Tokyo, for example, in its greater area of over 32 million population, may have a handful of gun homicides per year. This small number indicates how safe gun control laws have made the bustling Tokyo area, with similarly safe results nationally. Certainly, the people of Nevada could accept the type of legislation proposed in the article to save lives while freeing us to live more securely.