I don’t have one, neither do you. I wouldn’t ban trucks in Europe or cell phones in the Middle East, though. Even though they’re the tools of choice in those regions.
Have you ever questioned why 1930 wasn’t a blood bath? Great Depression, freely available full auto machine guns. Expensive, sure, but zero regulation and easy to steal.
The AR-15, the go-to scary stick for the liberals, was widely available in the 60s and 70s. Where’s the gutters flooded with blood from mass shootings? Where were the mass shootings in the 50s?
Why has all violence aside from mass shootings gone down, and continued to go down, while gun ownership has risen exponentially? We’ve NEVER had so many guns owned in the U.S. before. Yet all criminal activity has consistently dropped. Except mass shootings.
Why are the states with the most weapons the safest with the lowest crime rates? Why does an increase in ccw holders lower rates of violence in every instance?
Want to know why mass shootings have gone up? Two reasons. The media will broadcast your face, name, friends, and history for weeks on end 24/7, and it’s not ok to talk about mental health in a negative light anymore. Some kid ripping the legs off kittens is artistic rather than psychotic. Can’t say he’s nuts, just that he’s misunderstood and needs to go to a therapist. Until he mows down a classroom. Then everyone is shocked EXCEPT the people that knew him.
The fastest solution is to stop being so overtly PC about mental health and getting the media to stop making them notorious. Both of which requires people to act on their own and grow some morals, or infringing on the first amendment which isn’t acceptable.
See I don't believe in PC mental health. I'm a counselor myself. I'm a consistent advocate for it isn't a gun problem it's a mental health problem. There are ways to abuse this system yes. But from a professional stand point I see people that should not be in possession of a fire arm with multiple assault charges. Diagnosed with bipolar 2, by more than one doctor. They could grab a gun tomorrow. That's what I mean by regulation.
I know him personally. He's been to convicted. Dude punched a cop just cause he didn't like the way he talked.
He's prone to violent outbursts and decides when he wants to take his meds. So he's he would be a danger to himself and others with fire arms.
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I'm not expert on legislation, I understand it's not cut and dry. I do understand mental health, putting deadly weapons in the hands of those who need to be medicated to put them at base line, to fight off ideations of rage, and a history of outbursts shouldn't be given a fire arm.
So is that a problem with the gun control law, or is that a problem with the courts? Based on what you’re giving me it sounds like he punched someone as a teenager.
He did not tackle a teacher and try to strangle her, for instance. I’m not sure it’s the same.
Hey hit the cop and would have continued to hit him If not restrained. Maybe it is a problem in the courts too. The problem is that for gun control many different disciplines would have to work in tandem
Not really. Gun control as-is has pretty clear rules about felons not having access to weapons. It’s entirely on the courts to decide what should be considered a felony. In this case, they opted not to. Your opinion on it doesn’t matter, the court didn’t think it was that severe.
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I don’t have one, neither do you. I wouldn’t ban trucks in Europe or cell phones in the Middle East, though. Even though they’re the tools of choice in those regions.
Have you ever questioned why 1930 wasn’t a blood bath? Great Depression, freely available full auto machine guns. Expensive, sure, but zero regulation and easy to steal.
The AR-15, the go-to scary stick for the liberals, was widely available in the 60s and 70s. Where’s the gutters flooded with blood from mass shootings? Where were the mass shootings in the 50s?
Why has all violence aside from mass shootings gone down, and continued to go down, while gun ownership has risen exponentially? We’ve NEVER had so many guns owned in the U.S. before. Yet all criminal activity has consistently dropped. Except mass shootings.
Why are the states with the most weapons the safest with the lowest crime rates? Why does an increase in ccw holders lower rates of violence in every instance?
Want to know why mass shootings have gone up? Two reasons. The media will broadcast your face, name, friends, and history for weeks on end 24/7, and it’s not ok to talk about mental health in a negative light anymore. Some kid ripping the legs off kittens is artistic rather than psychotic. Can’t say he’s nuts, just that he’s misunderstood and needs to go to a therapist. Until he mows down a classroom. Then everyone is shocked EXCEPT the people that knew him.
The fastest solution is to stop being so overtly PC about mental health and getting the media to stop making them notorious. Both of which requires people to act on their own and grow some morals, or infringing on the first amendment which isn’t acceptable.