jblaskiSo what's your suggestion? What laws would you enact that would have prevented this past school shooting, or any of those in the past? All I keep hearing from people are "guns are bad" and "we need to change the laws" but absolutely zero substance.
I already did earlier. First, a better online database of mental history for someone. If they check in somewhere, or have medication, etc. that information needs to be directly tied to them when trying to purchase a gun. Like the Santa Barbara shooter had been seen by cops and therapists (months before), yet that information did not show up when he purchased a gun. There needs to be better communication on this front. Second, longer waiting period because things like this take a while to manifest and I feel less would slip through the cracks with more time. Third, periodically there should be some type of check of where these weapons are. I mean it should be known there's a woman with 14 guns that are easily available to her unstable son. The rest are the run of the mill.
BombogenesisMass shootings aside (crazy white kids usually)...I wonder how major a contribution the relative "breakdown of society" has on gun crime/murder rates. Single parent households, rampant poverty, less person to person interaction. A lot of gun crimes happen in large cities where the youth turn to gangs and crime as a means for survival. Do all of the other countries mentioned in the gun control arguments have those problems? Huge gang numbers and underground drug trafficking rings?
Uhhhh yes. So instead of targeting the specific problem in a realistic way, the better solution is to try and induce nationwide, systemic change on poverty??? Like I can't even. And I don't recall these shooters being poor gangbangers, so please stay on topic. And I know you said mass shootings aside, but people are applying this logic to the problem so I had to address it.
