You are acting like mental health only exists in the USA.
Other countries have people with mental health issues as well. We just don't allow them to have guns.
That isn't necessarily a gun issue, it's the fact that Mental health issues, poor treatment issues due to the way our health care system is, and access to firearms makes a very volatile situation.
Hmmm, you're right. I wonder if there are some controls on that....
Well depending on the state, some commercial explosives can be acquired without much, like a Drivers License.
You can also very easily make explosives at home with stuff from Home Depot, or Tractor Supply.
Thanks. I do appreciate it. I was hopeful after Sandy Hook, maybe America was ready. Nah. Was fully comfortable with a school full of kids being murdered in cold blood.
If that wasn't enough to move the needle, nothing was. And if that's the price America is willing to pay for the right to bear arms, then I respect their collective decision and will no longer waste my time feeling bad when this shit happens.
Ready for what? There are so many guns in this country and laws that are currently not enforced properly that more laws won't do anything.
Right...should I have waited? When was the good time to bring up his comments on him being okay with gun deaths as the price to pay for the second amendment?
Does it matter? He's dead, any commentary like that really serves no purpose but to make you look like an asshole.
Nope. If Americans cared they would do something about it. Collectively, I refuse.
We can't even get a Budget on time, so expecting anything in the political climate these days is hopeless. The issue is political divide. Historically "Gun Control" advocates want to ban everything and just try to inch towards that line, which leaves the "no one more inch" mentality from the NRA as the opposition.
That is a you issue, as Gang Violence - be it criminal on criminal, or criminal on innocent is awful, as is non Gun Violence against other innocents, either for Political 'reasons" or mental health reasons.
Guns are an inanimate object. Very true. But they are a very powerful inanimate object. Their should be limits on who can carry them, where they can carry them, how easy it is to access them.
Who sets the limits? I'm not trying to be obtuse, as I agree there need to be some safeguards. As I said above, with rights come responsibilities, gun owners (of which I am one) need to ensure that we push for mental health and other social service funding to ensure that criminal access to firearms is controlled, and punished.
The Carl Gustav is an inanimate object, but the military didn't like it when someone misplaced one.
It's an asset, the Military would be rather miffed if someone lost as 152 radio as well...
I can buy one down here, it is a destructive device just like a M203, - but the rounds cost a $200 tax stamp on top of the manufactures price (if not bought by a business), not a lot of folks running around with Recoilless Rifles or Grenade Launchers committing crimes though.
