Why do people scream for stricter gun laws when guns are a tool. People are the problem. Why not demand more budget to reduce screening errors, etc?

[Anonymous]

I have never understood people who scream about stricter gun laws. A gun law will never stop a legitimately bad person - a criminal - from possessing a gun. An idiot thinks it will.

Why don't these fools scream for more budgeting for facilities/screening so more people can be hired? Better training for officials who screen applicants? And a proper revamp to certain things - like legitimate proof (a receipt for example) of gun storage cabinets, etc. - to reduce the chance of an unregistered person/relative getting their hands on a weapon.

Majority of mass shootings in America is due to one of two things.

An unhinged relative got their hands on someone else's gun.

Someone that should NOT have been registered slipping through the cracks due to errors on the application or overworked officials with hundreds to thousands of applicants to process in a week or even in a single day.
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Very rarely - it happens but it's less common - do you hear of a mass shooting, particularly at schools, coming from someone illegally buying a gun on the streets.

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I get it's a knee jerk reaction... But it isn't like mass shootings happen every twenty years. By now you'd think people would be able to use their brains & reason WHY does it keep happening.

[BeMuse]

It keeps happening because it is deliberately orchestrated to play on Americans good nature and sympathy in an effort to psychologically manipulate us into giving up our own freedom by surrendering our guns... Communist always disarm a population before they genocide it into passiveness so that they can take total power and institute an authoritarian dictatorship. They groom the mentally ill, train them, supply them with weapons, body armor, vehicles, money, etc. like any terrorist organization. Remember when Al Quieda was taking young impressionable kids, putting them in training camps in Afghanistan, supplying them with money, training them how to fly planes, giving them weapons, etc. to establish sleeper cells to attack America in suicide attacks? It's the same methodology, just implemented in a different location. The goal is the same, to attack and weaken America and destroy liberty. The puppets that carry out the attacks are just from a different country. Go question the therapist... That's your recruiter and handler...

[BeMuse]

The person doing the screening is your perpetrator... Uvalde school district was part of AI program that "rooted out potential mass killers" and "monitored social media for threats and potential shooters". They identified him with social media spying, then recruited and groomed him with a therapist (spook).

[Soteris]

People are rarely a problem unless they have the right tools at hand. Its much easier to keep the tools away from them than to identify and especially do something about the people in question. Saying that a gun is just a "tool" is misleading since most of these problems are only ever problems BECAUSE of the guns.

Since Americans have perfectly demonstrated that they can't on average be trusted with a gun I fail to see why they should have the right to own it even if you consider it a "tool" rather than a weapon. Through necessity its only logical to limit the access to something if it becomes a problem such as with planes, cars or any other major "tool" that causes problems when not limited to people who can be trusted with them and has the required training to safely use them.

[Asker]

You are rather uneducated, aren't you? A knife in the wrong hands is just as dangerous as a gun. If not more so. You can see me coming with a gun. You can't see the knife until it's handle deep into your ribs, through your heart or across your throat.

[Soteris]

Please show me the last time a person with a knife murdered 20 people at once.

[Zeldaismyqueen]

America is the only country where mass shootings at schools happen and the developed country with the least gun laws. It doesn’t take a genius to see banning assault rifles will reduce children being murdered

[Asker]

Do you think that'd sold illegal sale of such weapons? You're beyond stupid if you do.

[Zeldaismyqueen]

It won’t stop every mass murder but making them illegal, like they are in Canada, would certainly reduce the number and frequency of murdered children. Isn’t it worth trying if it saves children’s lives?

[Asker]

Thank you for proving you're stupid. Guns are not illegal in Canada. They're restricted. Entirely different dimwit & no different than gun regulations in the US.

[Zeldaismyqueen]

Handguns are banned in Canada. So are automatic rifles. The laws are extremely different, in Canada you need background checks for one. All guns must be registered for another. Do you know what you are talking about?

[Anonymous]

Cars are just tools but a person must be licensed. They must be trained and prove themselves capable of operating one and are tested.

[Asker]

You obviously don't know that's why gun laws exist. I am asking why bitch about stricter ones when it isn't the cause for problems.

[Opinion Owner]

A car licence to drive a car isn't easy to get.

[Asker]

ROFL. Yes that's why foreigners from certain countries will quite literally hire people who look like them to take the test for them. My friend, who is a software engineer, has had people ask him to poise as them.

[FilmGuy93]

Because the people screaming for gun control don't want to acknowledge the role they played in creating the situation. If you create an infinitely accepting society where everything is okay and everybody is special; you create a society that fetishes difficulty and adversity. In our case, that difficulty tends to be identity and mental health related.

Well what did we think was going to happen? We destroyed people's sense of identity; of course they are going to act out. Now the same people who pushed for the death of identity want to get rid of guns, because guns represent a consequence of our behavior.

[Asker]

Only an American would associate guns with identity because you clowns don't have any culture to be proud of. God, how pathetic.

[FilmGuy93]

Well... I would argue that we actually have a lot of culture to be proud of, but modern Americans are clowns, yes.

[hypojoe]

You are right and where I live they just made it to where you can buy a hand gun without a permit and you do not need a liscense to carry but the government has been buying all the ammo and gun powder up its next to impossable to buy ammo in a store but on the street you can get anything you want i know this i have sceen it personally i have even bought guns that were not yet available for gun shops to buy its almost like government is selling this shit on the streets

[exitseven]

Yes, and enforce the gun laws we already have. If somebody has an unregistered firearm they should be locked up for a year. These are the people who do most of the killing but they are minorities so they are not arrested because that would be racist. 20 students are killed and it is on the news 24/7. Yes, it is a horrible tragedy but those kinds of body counts go on every weekend in democrat run cities throughout the country. Nobody says a word about it.

[NamerOfStars]

Because they want to be seen as "doing something", and that matters more than baking sure it's the *correct* thing. As the last two yeals have shown, this is FAR from limited to guns.

[Guy13]

People are trained in public school to REACT rather than think critically

[Asker]

I get that. But it isn't like mass shootings happen every twenty years. By now you'd think people would be able to use their brains & reason WHY does it keep happening.

[driven159]

most guns used in crimes are stolen one thing that should be do is not let people buy assault rifles till they are 25 so there can be maturity and time to see if they have mental issues instead of soon as they are 18 they can buy one

[jahaims]

It's partly ignorance and partly human nature to want a black and white solution to solve an issue so they can cope easier.

[Rossllih]

Yes, Guns are tools. But they need not be such efficient tools when the only purpose is killing

[Anonymous]

Knee jerk reaction.

[Asker]

I get that. But it isn't like mass shootings happen every twenty years. By now you'd think people would be able to use their brains & reason WHY does it keep happening.