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Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
Time to institutionalize the crazy.
ODon said, 5 months ago
Hmm, wonder who we could start with???
Fourcrows said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Yes, universal healthcare would help families get the support they need for their children or other loved ones. If you don’t have to worry about going into debt for seeing a specialist like a psychiatrist, more mentally ill people caould be identified and treated BEFORE they go on a shooting rampage.
BTW: check with your own health insurance company. Many plans don’t cover more than 2 or 3 mental health visits per year, and extended treatments (hospital stays or clinical retreats) are only covered up to a percentage of the cost, possibly leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to the family to cure or treat someone. Glad to see you joined our side of the healthcare debate!
ruff
said, 5 months ago
@ODon
Isn’t that obvious !!!
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
The time has come to change the technology so that Gun Ownership is less dabgerous to ourselves and our communities.
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Finger print reader triggers!
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GPS over ride that disables the weapon from discharging in specific areas.
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Problem solved!
ansonia
said, 5 months ago
No legislation is going to prevent senseless killing.
Stipple said, 5 months ago
@Dredpiraterobt$
I would certainly buy a black market gun that shoots, not government issued crap.
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The laws we have now cover everything, but for some reason the laws are ignored by lawbreakers.
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Yup, more laws, that’s the answer.
Radish
said, 5 months ago
More guns is not the answer.
Rottiluv
said, 5 months ago
I’ve looked over Conneticut’s gun laws and they’re pretty tight. In fact they out strip Canada’s laws in a lot of ways. I keep hearing people screaming about “more gun laws” but nobody seems to know EXACTLY what laws they want in place. There’s already laws against stealing guns, there’s already laws against killing people. Securing the guns better? Sure, but what are you going to do, give police the right to come into your house whenever they feel like it to randomly check? Bringing in a limited clip size? It only takes a second to change a clip.
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I think going after the gun control is the wrong approach. First we have to look at the mental health issue. Second we have to look at why, as a society, there are so many angry young people who think their only way of dealing with life is to lash out at random people.
ahab
said, 5 months ago
@ansonia
Actually, that statement may not be true ansonia. “No legislation is going to prevent senseless killing.” It sounds like you advocate doing nothing. Past legislation has been blocked in practice, and by circumstance,as you and I are well aware. I liked the response given by a new Senator who previously was in law enforcement who advocated instituting proven practices at reducing gun violence. She was given a 100% NRA rating. Education,further studies and research by institutions from an unbiased base,etc(Swiss researchers etc!) If the NRA funded 50% of what they spent lobbying Congress towards gun safety, instead of blocking research and legislation to protect citizens , they’d be a good organization.
Uncle Joe said, 5 months ago
@et2008
I think the issue of making mental health care more available is a side show. It’s impossible to know for sure who is dangerous. The latest reports say that the CT shooter may have went on the rampage because he thought he was about to be committed. I think we need better access to ALL kinds of health care, but unless we start locking up people who haven’t actually committed a crime, this don’t cut it.
To paraphrase an old line:
It’s the guns, stupid.
Uncle Joe said, 5 months ago
@Rottiluv
"I’ve looked over Conneticut’s gun laws and they’re pretty tight. "
And yet, a woman, with an adult child with emotional stability issues living with her, was able to legally purchase a high caliber semi-automatic rifle and large quantities of ammo. If this is where the laws are strict, I must be missing something.
d_legendary1 said, 5 months ago
Its big talk until the NRA decides to cut their funding and place attack ads for the candidate that dares to challenge them.
Rottiluv
said, 5 months ago
@Uncle Joe
Okay, so if you live with someone who has a DUI, should you have your car taken away from you because your child/brother/spouse might steal it and kill someone? Have you bothered to actually look at the gun laws? Why couldn’t the mother get help for her child?
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I keep hearing people screaming about more gun laws, but I’m not seeing anything specific. The mother should have locked up the guns better. I don’t know, maybe she did. I haven’t seen anything on how she stored her guns.
Rottiluv
said, 5 months ago
@d_legendary1
The last election proved to me that the NRA is basically a republican funding machine. They supported Romney, who had brought in stricter gun laws as governor, yet took things that Obama said as a “OMG HE’S GUNNA TAKE OUR GUNS!!!”