(04-18-2021, 08:27 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(04-18-2021, 05:25 AM)captivating Wrote: As others have said, most people will suffer some sort of mental illness during their lives.  How do you regulate gun ownership?  Would you be happy with your guns being confiscated while you are being treated for depression?

It's far more logical to remove guns that cause mass casualties / fatalities.  Yes, criminals will still get their guns, but it will stop those who cause these mass shootings - the mentally il from being able to get them

Define "mass". A skilled user can do this with a handgun or even a knife.

Sometimes handguns can are used to kill a bunch of people, including I think one of the most recent shootings lately (I believe the one with the family owned business out west). But I do agree with captivating that it could really benefit people if we limit access to guns that are often used to commit mass casualties. Like assault rifles that are often used in these shootings. 

Going back to the mental illness discussion, I do think it's important to get people help, if possible. But I also believe that there are people that are going to want to kill no matter how much help you give them and that there are people that are truly evil and want to kill. (Regardless whether they suffer from mental illness or not). I care more about making it harder for people including people like this to possibly have access to weapons to kill people, than I care about whatever is driving them to kill/their motives. There is way too many shootings with the motives being all over the place. Trying to figure out the motives/reasoning is not really helping people and it isn't preventing a lot more of these tragedies from happening. Sometimes figuring out a motive helps in certain cases, but it's not really helping in the case of mass shootings. Some of these people can not/will not change no matter what you try and do for them.

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