Yeah, suck those 12 people's deaths up your nose, libtards!
Outside of completely confiscating every single gun people own in this country and making gun ownership illegal. There isn't an easy fix. Because in one day, a perfectly sane person can go from sane to insane at one of many life's curve balls. Job loss, culmination of months of personal stress, etc. You name it, predicting the reaction of a person's behavior to life's events is impossible. A "qualified" gun owner can go to "unqualified" in one bad life event. So what's your answer?
The answer is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Just because there isn't an easy fix doesn't mean we cannot try to make incremental progress. Gun advocates who refuse to even come to the table for this discussion are tacitly approving the current level of firearm abuse in our society. This is why "thoughts and prayers" or meaningless aphorisms from gun owners come across as empty words devoid of genuine meaning and worthy of derision.
I was addressing his specific answer, not indicating I didn't think anything should be done. Outside of complete confiscation and a banning of firearms altogether in this country, we have no other choice but to accept some level of "acceptable risk". But any gun measures you put in CANNOT predict when a perfectly sane person is going to snap. Again, am I saying nothing should be done? No, I am not. But if we're going to allow guns in this country we are going to have to be "okay" with accepting the fact that there will be incidences of gun violence to some degree. Because like I said in my post to the above poster. A citizen who passes all of our criteria to own a gun can go from sane to insane in one life event. It is impossible to predict human behavior to stress, tragedy, and other life problems we all have.
imo, that is part of the problem. the criteria to own a gun are too lax.
I'm not sure I follow, or are you talking about our current criteria? I'm talking about even with much, much stricter criteria a person who passes stricter criteria can go from competent to nutso quick.
yeah, but with stricter criteria, it would be less likely that they would have weapons. other countries with much stricter criteria are not having the problems we are having.
Yeah, I agree and hopefully the criteria would be structured in such a way that it would pick up on people with progressive mental illness and keep firearms out of their hands. The elephant in the room are all the guns that are already in our society.
