If we really had universal background checks that might help keeping guns out of the hands of mentally incompetent or convicted violent people. Right now anybody can visit a gun show and get armed without a check.
It’s just a coincidence that places with the laxest gun laws have the most gun deaths. What POSSIBLE connection could there be? And anyway, we need those guns in case the government, with its tanks and soldiers and bombs and helicopters and sharks with frikkin lasers goes bad. We’ll use them to kill ourselves just before they nuke us from orbit.
Its the person’s fault not the GUN you left wing nut job. I have NEVER in 41 years of owning and shooting guns seen on jump up load itself and go shoot people all on it own. NOT ONCE!!
Background checks as now required are useless. This guy got 13 guns legally. What we need are mental health screenings before someone buys 13 guns. Who’s going to agree to that, pay for it, or accept the results?Not the gun industry’s shill, the NRA, or its worshipers. As it is, a background check only states if a court has found someone unbalanced. And it’s hard to do that with a corpse.
In the industrialized and economically sounder “first world”, our record of death by gun IS the most exceptional thing about us.
On “background checks”, Republican riders limited the government to keeping records for only 5 days under Brady. Smith and Wesson and NRA can keep, and sell or purchase those records, forever. If anyone’s going to get a database and go for your guns, they will hack NRA, not FBi.
Monitoring the “social network” might be the best starting place to “head ’em off at the pass”, but there again, the legal limits on government are a stumbling block presented by the Constitution and SCOTUS, so far, and so good, but; maybe other folks out there maybe DO have a responsibility to say something about these nuts??
Reactions to the shootings in Oregon: Jeb! “Stuff happens.” A talking head on Fox News today; “We need to elect leaders who have the courage to do nothing when something like this happens.” So the Republican philosophy is we should just accept 30,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence. For the mathematically challenged, that’s ten 9/11’s annually. The R’s were willing to trash the constitution and spend TRILLIONS of dollars on that event. Four Americans die in Benghazi, national tragedy. Thousands killed by guns annually at home, eh, what are ya gonna do?
Darsan54 Premium Member over 8 years ago
The “exceptionalism” is our obliviousness to this terrible problem.
PICTO over 8 years ago
I understand that the Canadians have amassed 80% of their population within 100 miles of their undefended border with the US.
moosemin over 8 years ago
Don’t change the channel. You’ll simply discover another one!
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 8 years ago
If we really had universal background checks that might help keeping guns out of the hands of mentally incompetent or convicted violent people. Right now anybody can visit a gun show and get armed without a check.
Kip W over 8 years ago
It’s just a coincidence that places with the laxest gun laws have the most gun deaths. What POSSIBLE connection could there be? And anyway, we need those guns in case the government, with its tanks and soldiers and bombs and helicopters and sharks with frikkin lasers goes bad. We’ll use them to kill ourselves just before they nuke us from orbit.
writchey1 over 8 years ago
Its the person’s fault not the GUN you left wing nut job. I have NEVER in 41 years of owning and shooting guns seen on jump up load itself and go shoot people all on it own. NOT ONCE!!
kaffekup over 8 years ago
Background checks as now required are useless. This guy got 13 guns legally. What we need are mental health screenings before someone buys 13 guns. Who’s going to agree to that, pay for it, or accept the results?Not the gun industry’s shill, the NRA, or its worshipers. As it is, a background check only states if a court has found someone unbalanced. And it’s hard to do that with a corpse.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
In the industrialized and economically sounder “first world”, our record of death by gun IS the most exceptional thing about us.
On “background checks”, Republican riders limited the government to keeping records for only 5 days under Brady. Smith and Wesson and NRA can keep, and sell or purchase those records, forever. If anyone’s going to get a database and go for your guns, they will hack NRA, not FBi.
Monitoring the “social network” might be the best starting place to “head ’em off at the pass”, but there again, the legal limits on government are a stumbling block presented by the Constitution and SCOTUS, so far, and so good, but; maybe other folks out there maybe DO have a responsibility to say something about these nuts??
WaitingMan over 8 years ago
Reactions to the shootings in Oregon: Jeb! “Stuff happens.” A talking head on Fox News today; “We need to elect leaders who have the courage to do nothing when something like this happens.” So the Republican philosophy is we should just accept 30,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence. For the mathematically challenged, that’s ten 9/11’s annually. The R’s were willing to trash the constitution and spend TRILLIONS of dollars on that event. Four Americans die in Benghazi, national tragedy. Thousands killed by guns annually at home, eh, what are ya gonna do?