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Respectfully, reality doesn't agree with your opinion. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. These laws absolutely work.
Yeah, sounds so simple. Totally not more effort than walking into a store and buying one.
Totally agree there - and there is no reason we can't have that AND reasonable gun laws. Never understood the false dichotomy.
I'm glad you put "loners" in quotations because these people didn't get radicalized alone. Top law enforcement officials say the biggest domestic terror threat comes from white supremacists. These are not "lone wolves." They have been brainwashed by extreme right-wingers to hate anyone who is different.
Thanks for the well-worded reply. My concern is that we are preventing citizens from exercising a right. Restricting guns seems like the easy thing to do - if you're not a gun rights supporter. I live in a place where it can take law enforcement a while to reach me. Until then, I'm on my own. Being limited to a 10-round magazine and going up against someone with a 100-round rotary magazine could leave me dead. I hope it never happens, but it could. There are illegal pot farms up here, and being suspected of turning one in can get ugly quick.
We have yet to exhaust other less intrusive ways to curtail gun violence. The fact that all psychological disqualifying conditions are not used to determine gun purchases is appalling to me. Politicians are more concerned that a person might avoid seeking treatment to hide their condition. And how can some who have threatened or committed unwarranted violence on others still buy a firearm? These issues need to be addressed before the government infringes on everyone's right. Instead of legislating to address the least common denominator, stop those who've proven they lack good judgement from obtaining a weapon in the first place.