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So then I imagine you are for completely open and unrestricted weapon access. I am sure arms companies would love to sell heavier/more expensive equipment to a hungry US public. Is your solution to let everyone have access to mortars, grenade launchers, mines, chemical weapons, etc merely because you can't envision a solution to the problem?
originally posted by: Gaspode
a reply to: Boadicea
Even bigger sigh.
Yet, there are countries where there hasn't been 1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days. 1,719 deaths. 6,510 injuries.
I'm asking what the solution is. Not the question. There must be a solution.
originally posted by: Wayfarer
originally posted by: Gryphon66
B) Legal limitations on gun ownership in the US are unconstitutional.
Therein is the problem, and its not like the constitution hasn't been amended since its inception. You are conflating national identity with hard facts.
Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts rou tinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Here is my question, since every tom dick and harriet is screaming for gun control now.
Last I read the guy did not have trouble with the cops, was not in and out of a mental hospital, was well off financially.
So zero red flags in the system, what possible legislation could have stopped this?
originally posted by: Irishhaf
what possible legislation could have stopped this?
originally posted by: Boadicea
Our problems are much much bigger than guns with many root causes, and there is no one solution. And we have to address all of them to address the bigger issue. But if I had to reduce it to one thing: Take care of the people and for the most part the problem will take care of itself.