The issue as I see it is that the genie is already out of the bottle, and you can't put it back. There are too many guns already in circulation to effectively reduce access to them, so stop trying to.
Yes, mental health is a major issue that gets ignored. However, relying on identifying and treating potential violent offenders is also fraught with it's own set of horrors. Who decides who get locked you for treatment when? The statistics regarding the number of guns, number of citizens, and frequency of shootings rather nullifies the need to carry a gun for personal or even group defense. The likelihood of ever needing to use one is extremely small, unless you like to put yourself in harms way. If you look at the recent reporting of shootings, if we want to reduce the gun violence rate, we need to dis-arm the police. Of course, a lot of this is due to what's being reported when. Local shootings didn't get reported nationally in the '50's and 60's. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Addison Thompson via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > IMNSHO the problem is one group's attempt to control morality and illegal > behavior by controlling a "thing," i.e. the guns, instead of focusing on > the actual behavior of the small number of misbehaving individuals. > > For example, some nut-job shoots up a movie theater and the response from > some is to try to ban the tool that he used rather than advocate for more > mental health programs to deal with the cause of the shooting. As Dan said, > there is a need for more mental health resources for those that need it. > > In so doing, the controls advocated by the ban group infringe on the > rights of the vast majority that do not exhibit the criminal behavior thus > setting up this endless discussion. > > Regards, > Addison > (who advocates for my right to self-defense) > > > -- OK Don (Who advocates his right to own firearms because I like them, but don't carry one around with me all the time.) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
