Glad he is safe

[Teddy B 17,252]

A current backround check would not have stopped him from purchasing a weapon. Are you proposing that every person that wants to purchase a firearm should have to pass a mental health evaluation?

You asked what current or future law would have prevented him from having a gun, I answered. I have been saying all along that mental health evaluations should be done on the gun owner, and also everyone resdiding in the gun owners household.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

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They're just a zit on the overall gun problem. All these solutions you guys are proposing do jack to solve the single largest source of gun homicides - the intersection of narcotics and money and young males in the inner city.

I really get the feeling that as long as gun control advocates no longer have to see images of dead middle class suburban kids on TV, they wouldn't actually care about the real problem. Because nothing you guys are talking about addresses the real problem.

I've address the real problem on this board a long time ago. If you deal with the poverty, drugs, job, and education system you can cut down on the crime rate. But it's like talking to a wall with some folks who claim the only answer is to give everyone a gun.

[decocker 7,198]

The idea that the American people with all their guns will one day stand up to the big, bad, evil government makes me laugh.

insert 'red dawn' reference. totally possible.

[Teddy B 17,252]

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Yes. And he would have procured a gun, background checks or no background checks. Some of the people on this thread act like black markets don't exist. People buy and sell stuff outside of legally sanctioned channels all the time.

The Democrats have replaced the term "black markets" with the new term "Mexican markets" to better suit their need for cheap illegal stuff.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

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So you'd rather wait till we experience tyranny before you accept the possibility of tyranny in the US. Ok.

You're leaping again, look at the small pieces first before you reach the land of tyranny.

[Karee 4,190]

You asked what current or future law would have prevented him from having a gun, I answered. I have been saying all along that mental health evaluations should be done on the gun owner, and also everyone resdiding in the gun owners household.

That'll never happen.

[Teddy B 17,252]

That'll never happen.

Probably not.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Collect all the guns and turn them into manhole covers. Anybody caught with a gun goes to jail. Not that hard to figure out.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Collect all the guns and turn them into manhole covers. Anybody caught with a gun goes to jail. Not that hard to figure out.

That's just un-American. Guns are our identity.

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

The idea that the American people with all their guns will one day stand up to the big, bad, evil government makes me laugh.

happened about 237 years ago...and you know what they say about history repeating itself.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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There has been an epidemic of gang-related violence in our cities for decades. Why the sudden urgency? What has changed? Do you realize how little impact the occasional suburban mass murder has on our total gun homicide metric?

When I was a kid, the street gangs had zip guns and switch blades. Now they have assault weapons - the big change is a result of the popularity and availability of more lethal weapons. I blame the NRA, and I blame firearm manufacturers. Most of those weapons should never have been available for sale in the US.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

happened about 237 years ago...and you know what they say about history repeating itself.

Sure. You lead the charge, charles.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

happened about 237 years ago...and you know what they say about history repeating itself.

Yes, a minority started an unpopular war of independence. Great example of what a heavily armed fanatical group can accomplish.