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Originally Posted by saden1
Fck this too soon bulshit. It's time to do something...For one thing we need a single database of gun owners and annual mental and physical evaluation to own a gun. No more walking out with a gun before a background and evaluation of your fitness to own a gun. Lock the shit down now!
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Saden, why are all your political posts that I see always wrong?
In this case, you've got the right idea, but the wrong group of people. Even if your current screwed up idea were passed, it would have done nothing in this case because the mother was the owner. But even aside from that, you and others miss a major part of the problem here.
On this topic, long story short, copied from another forum:
The sad part of this is that the root cause of all these shootings is being ignored.
Every one of these shooters is/was mentally disturbed. Yet we do not require a psychologist to report a person in their care to the authorities when violence is discussed.
All of this doctor patient confidentiality is non sense. If a person is a threat to society then how is the doctor not complicit in the act of the patient when the patient commits violence?
If mentally disturbed people were identified, put into a database to ban them from gun, knife, ammo and any other thing that could be used for mass destruction then many if not most of these cases could be avoided.
If parents were required to register their known disturbed kids in the data base and if the parents were held criminally responsible for not doing so it would take no time, between parents and doctors, to identify the majority of these people.
You nearly always hear, after the fact, of family and friends who knew the shooter was not stable or in fact knew they were outright disturbed. This is nothing more than plain common sense to get a handle on the problem this way.
A kinda chilling example from another website here.
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I see many arguments lately about how it's easier to get a gun, than competent psychological help. Yet people jump straight to gun control without addressing the other problem already stated.
But hey, let's immediately milk a tragedy for partisan political points involving 28 deaths, and ignore 32,000 traffic deaths (a third of them DUIs)
LINK.
Or have a real discussion about gun deaths, also in the 30K's (CDC has auto fatalities at 34K, gun deaths 31K, both way too much just saying), and where those gun deaths occur (in places with the most gun control ironically). Oh, and about suicides accounting for 19K of those gun deaths.
LINK LINK LINK Maybe we need mental health control, and better gun control not more.
Who am I kidding? Focus on the guy in China who also went to a school and only wounded people because he had a knife, therefore gun control works. Never mind that precedence in this country would be for the murderer, after killing his mother, if he still wanted to go attack the school without guns, would have been to use a bomb or incendiary device in a real "bomb threat" case. Carry on.