Another insane person with aa assault weapon.

[Jarod]

Are we ever going to take effective action to keep these weapons out of the hands of mentally insane people.

[moon]

Either people stop making them or people stop buying them .

The drivers are capitalism and fear.

[SmarterthanYou]

Are we ever going to take effective action to keep these weapons out of the hands of mentally insane people.

how do you plan on doing that without interfering with the rights of all others?

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how do you plan on doing that without interfering with the rights of all others?

I'd say it is the rights of others that is important, the "unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and not having to worry or concerned with getting gunned down by a semi automatic weapon in just going to the shopping center, school, spa, church, grocery story, concert, mall, senior center, parking lot, nightclub, etc

[ExpressLane]

Are we ever going to take effective action to keep these weapons out of the hands of mentally insane people.

Who?

[Lionfish]

I'd say it is the rights of others that is important, the "unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and not having to worry or concerned with getting gunned down by a semi automatic weapon in just going to the shopping center, school, spa, church, grocery story, concert, mall, senior center, parking lot, nightclub, etc

Poor anchovies,

[Doc Dutch]

Are we ever going to take effective action to keep these weapons out of the hands of mentally insane people.

Ask Beto; he wants to ban guns, not fix mentally ill people.

[Jarod]

how do you plan on doing that without interfering with the rights of all others?

The same way we don’t allow them to have nukes, for example.

The same way it’s against the law to share classified information even though we have freedom of speech.

[Doc Dutch]

The same way we don’t allow them to have nukes, for example.

The same way it’s against the law to share classified information even though we have freedom of speech.

Comparing small arms to nukes is silly. It's why nothing is being done; Democrats want to ban guns and Republicans don't want them to do so. Nobody gives a shit about the mentally ill or the 45,000 suicides in America every year...well, except for the half that use firearms. The Democrats love to use those numbers to puff up their "gun violence" stats.

https://everytownresearch.org/report...-gun-violence/

In the United States overall, suicides account for six out of 10 gun deaths (as compared to four out of 10 in the nation’s cities), resulting in nearly 24,000 deaths per year.3 At a national level, research indicates that gun suicides disproportionately impact white and American Indian and Alaskan Native people, older men, and veterans.4 Gun suicide rates increased across multiple racial groups during the COVID-19 pandemic,5 however, with particularly harmful impacts on young Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).6 Lockdowns and school closures; lost jobs, housing, and social connections; deaths of loved ones; and pauses in necessary community services all hit BIPOC communities hardest, and introduced a multitude of suicide risk factors in the process—the effects of which are still being felt today.7 Common across them all are the risks posed by gun access, which triples one’s risk of death by suicide.8

[Jarod]

Comparing small arms to nukes is silly. It's why nothing is being done; Democrats want to ban guns and Republicans don't want them to do so. Nobody gives a shit about the mentally ill or the 45,000 suicides in America every year...well, except for the half that use firearms. The Democrats love to use those numbers to puff up their "gun violence" stats.

https://everytownresearch.org/report...-gun-violence/

You need to understand the context…. He believes all Americans have an absolute right to any “arms” including nuclear ones. He believes the rights are absolute, even for mass murderers.

[Jarod]

Ask Beto; he wants to ban guns, not fix mentally ill people.

I think he wants both.

[Doc Dutch]

You need to understand the context…. He believes all Americans have an absolute right to any “arms” including nuclear ones. He believes the rights are absolute, even for mass murderers.

Common sense is somewhere in the middle of the extremes.

[Doc Dutch]

I think he wants both.

Like most Democrats, he's focusing on banning guns first then better mental health later.

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[QUOTE=Lionfish;5468852]Poor anchovies,

Not at all, rather prefer the US didn't resemble a Middle East country with every citizen walking around with a semi automatic weapon swung over their shoulder, can see no value in living in John Wayne movie

[archives]

Comparing small arms to nukes is silly. It's why nothing is being done; Democrats want to ban guns and Republicans don't want them to do so. Nobody gives a shit about the mentally ill or the 45,000 suicides in America every year...well, except for the half that use firearms. The Democrats love to use those numbers to puff up their "gun violence" stats.

https://everytownresearch.org/report...-gun-violence/

Democrats don't want to ban guns, regulating guns isn't banning guns, no one is coming to your house to take away your weapons

And the numbers aren't puffed up, close to twenty thousand Americans are murdered as a result of gun violence, forty percent of all gun violence, there is no need to puff up those statistics, they speak for themselves