Quote:I think the real fear isn't that people will lose their guns or be put on a list. It's that they will be told they are not allowed to buy a gun because they are mentally unstable or unhealthy.


I agree this will not stop all gun violence, and that guns will still be readily available on the black market. But doing nothing when a raging problem clearly exists is insanity.

 

Just doing something because there is a problem is a poor argument. You have to do what is right, and restricting the 2nd amendment is not whats right. Rather than restricting people their second amendment rights, why not heavily subsidize research into mental illness? Actual research, not obamacare funding for more facilities, ACTUAL research, through universities as well as private and public institutions. This might help stop crazies from even considering the act of a mass shooting.

 

Want to significantly lower gun crime (since stopping mass shootings won't drop that statistic)? Get warrants for all the public housing projects and ghettos in the top 10 largest American cities then invade and confiscate all the illegal weapons. There is your something. Gun crime will drop HUGE percentage points overnight.

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